Life-changing Choices WOW - 10/4

October: Habits

QUOTE:
"We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."
John Dryden

INSPIRATION:
It is said that it takes 21 days in a row to make a habit. Yet I see individuals take a lifetime to break a habit once it is part of their life. I think for many our habits are formed unconsciously and then when we realize it has already taken hold of us. For some us we have good habits that we are grateful for but there are times when we have some that has forged a chain around us and we seem helpless to change. I see people every day struggle with habits that are destructive yet they feel powerless to change.

ACTION:
I think the first step regarding a habit is to recognize it in our life.

Is it a good habit that I want to keep?

Is it a bad habit that needs to be replaced?

I always say bad habits need to be replaced not lost as our mind when we say “lost” has a tendency to want to find it again. That’s why losing weight never works but eliminating now that says it’s gone. So if we replace a bad habit with a good one then there is no place for the old one to come back. If you just try to get rid of a bad habit it creates a vacuum in our life and as nature abhors a vacuum it is only a matter of time before the habit comes back.