But you can say you are someone who demands that he exercises every day because it is part of his life style. For example, maybe you are no longer an athlete because you retired. You can still select identities that you want to become by repositioning the way you phrase it. As your career or life changes, the identities you can justifiably identify with might change.Think of yourself as someone who gets up early rather than set a goal to get up early.You act like the type of person you want to be.Become someone proud of their nails stops chewing their nails.Become a runner rather than run a marathon.A subtle shift from setting a goal of achieving something to becoming the identity makes all the difference.All habits, including bad habits, exist because they are benefiting you on some level.Habits are the compound interest of self improvement.Making tiny improvements everyday compound into something huge over a lifetime.A goal always puts off happiness to the future while a system doesn’t.A goal will take care of itself with a good system.Systems are more important than setting goals to make results.You can use this as a short cheat sheet anytime you forget something. The best part is that these books have sold so well that they’re being recommended and introduced to new people who aren’t familiar with the self development world.Īnyhow, here are my book notes and my review. So, I wasn’t surprised when his first book Atomic Habits blew up after Mark’s book The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck blew up. James Clear is one of the top personal development bloggers next to Mark Manson.
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