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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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In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.
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Areas Destiny Determination Opportunity
True long-term thinking is goal-less thinking. It’s not about any single accomplishment. It is about the cycle of endless refinement and continuous improvement.
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Accomplishment End Goal Improvement Thinking True
I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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Habit Oneself Start Writing
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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Achievement Focus Habit Identity Result
A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.
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Aware Cure Poison Reflection
You get what you repeat.
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Habit Inspirational One Liner Repeat Yourself
Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action.
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Action Count Leadership Motivational Smart
A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination.
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Change Destination Direction Leadership Meaningful Small
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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Consumption Creation Fact Leadership Oneself Possession
What do you want to stand for? What are your principles and values? Who do you wish to become?
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Principle Stand Value Yourself
The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game.
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Game Goal Play Purpose Win
A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
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Born Education Genius Training
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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Bad Cost Future Goodness Habit Present
How can I make it obvious? How can I make it attractive? How can I make it easy? How can I make it satisfying?
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Attraction Easy Myself Satisfaction Work
Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity.
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Identity Reflection Yourself
If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.
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Better Goal Improvement Result System Yourself

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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