Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
You can't double your intelligence in one hour, but you can use one hour to write something twice as clear. And ideas that are easy to read and easy to understand will make you seem smarter. The bette...
In the middle, it feels slow. In hindsight, it feels fast.
If someone has the courage to admit they were wrong, you should have the grace to give them credit for admitting it. Rubbing it in encourages them to never admit being wrong again.
When you fall in love with the process rather than the end product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy.
If you added up all the time wasted searching for shortcuts and trying to cheat the process, the hard work could have already been done by now.
It was only when they implemented a system of continuous small improvements that they achieved a different outcome.
It’s easier to practice self-restraint when you don’t have to use it very often.
A handful of problem arise when you spend too much time thinking about your goals and not enough time designing your system.
Fix the inputs and the outputs will fix themselves.
Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don’t want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change.
Time will multiply whatever you feed it. Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
Behind every system of actions are a system of belief.
A stable environment where everything has a place and a purpose is an environment where habits can easily form.
Addictions could spontaneously dissolve if there was a radical change in the environment.
If you want to make a habit a big part of your life, make the cue a big part of your environment.
If successful and unsuccessful people share the same goals, then the goal cannot be what differentiates the winners from the losers.
True long-term thinking is goalless thinking.
The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game.
I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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