Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
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.
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.
In the middle, it feels slow. In hindsight, it feels fast.
Fix the inputs and the outputs will fix themselves.
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.
Success unlocks both opportunities and distractions.
Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don’t want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change.
It was only when they implemented a system of continuous small improvements that they achieved a different outcome.
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...
Simple is nearly always better. But if it's going to be complicated, then make sure the problem is worth the complexity. A great deal of time is wasted creating complex solutions to relatively unimpor...
True long-term thinking is goalless thinking.
If successful and unsuccessful people share the same goals, then the goal cannot be what differentiates the winners from the losers.
A handful of problem arise when you spend too much time thinking about your goals and not enough time designing your system.
Genes can’t make you successful if you’re not doing the work.
The more attractive an opportunity is, the more likely it is to become habit-forming.
The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game.
You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
It is unlikely that your actual path through life will match the exact journey you had in mind when you set out.
I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits.
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