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Small changes often appear to make no difference until you cross a critical threshold. The most powerful outcomes of any compounding process are delayed. You need to be patient.

James Clear

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A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Find a way to get started in less than two minutes.
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Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination.
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Whenever you feel authentic and genuine, you are headed in the right direction.
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I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker.
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Put another way, the costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future.
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Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them.
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With outcome-based habits, the focus is on what you want to achieve. With identity-based habits, the focus is on who you wish to become.
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When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running.
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In fact, the tendency for one purchase to lead to another one has a name: the Diderot Effect. The Diderot Effect states that obtaining a new possession often creates a spiral of consumption
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People get so caught up in the fact that they have limits that they rarely exert the effort required to get close to them.
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The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It’s the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows.
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Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity.
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Small changes often appear to make no difference until you cross a critical threshold. The most powerful outcomes of any compounding process are delayed. You need to be patient.

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