If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.
James clear
In order to improve for good, you need to solve problems at the systems level. Fix the inputs and the outputs will fix themselves.
James clear
In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.
James clear
Missing once is an accident. Missing twice is the start of a new habit. This is a distinguishing feature between winners and losers. Anyone can have a bad performance, a bad workout, or a bad day at work. But when successful people fail, they rebound quickly.
James clear
New identities require new evidence. If you keep casting the same votes you’ve always cast, you’re going to get the same results you’ve always had. If nothing changes, nothing is going to change.
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Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
James clear
One of the best ways to build a new habit is to identify a current habit you already do each day and then stack your new behavior on top. This is called habit stacking.
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Over the long run, however, the real reason you fail to stick with habits is that your self-image gets in the way. This is why you can’t get too attached to one version of your identity. Progress requires unlearning. Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity. (Atomic Habits Quotes)
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perseverance, grit, and willpower are essential to success, but the way to improve these qualities is not by wishing you were a more disciplined person, but by creating a more disciplined environment.
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Professionals stick to the schedule, amateurs let life get in the way.
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Research has shown that once a person believes in a particular aspect of their identity, they are more likely to act in alignment with that belief.
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Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.
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Success is the product of daily habits. Not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
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That’s the power of atomic habits. Tiny changes. Remarkable results.
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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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The greatest threat to success is not failure but boredom. We get bored with habits because they stop delighting us. The outcome becomes expected. And as our habits become ordinary, we start derailing our progress to seek novelty.
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The more pride you have in a particular aspect of your identity, the more motivated you will be to maintain the habits associated with it.
If you’re proud of how your hair looks, you’ll develop all sorts of habits to care for and maintain it. if you’re proud of the size of your biceps, you’ll make sure you never skip an upper-body workout. If you’re proud of the scarves you knit, you’ll be more likely to spend hours knitting each week. Once your pride gets involved, you’ll fight tooth and nail to maintain your habits.
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The only way to become excellent is to be endlessly fascinated by doing the same thing over and over. You have to fall in love with boredom.
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The problem is not slipping up; the problem is thinking that if you can not do something perfectly, then you shouldn’t do it at all.
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