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When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.

James Clear

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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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Appearance Change Need Patience Process Small Yourself
Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.
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Environment Motivational Place
Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
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Fight Habit Maintain Pride Yourself
Whenever you feel authentic and genuine, you are headed in the right direction.
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You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.
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The work that hurts you less than it hurts others is the work you were made to do.
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When preparation becomes a form of procrastination, you need to change something. You don’t want to merely be planning. You want to be practicing.
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Change Form Practice Preparation Yourself
Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action.
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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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Bad Cost Future Goodness Habit Present
WHY IS IT so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good ones?
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Bad Easy Goodness Habit Oneself Repeat
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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Fall In Love Permission Product Run Satisfaction Wait Yourself
Success is the product of daily habits – not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
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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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Good habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action.
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Action Failure Goodness Habit Identity Yourself
Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity.
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Identity Reflection Yourself
A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination.
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When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.

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