Hey, So recently I recalled a speaker back when I was in high school he walked in and said hi to us and he was very well dressed by the way suit and all I mean the guy was looking sharp. In my head, I am thinking "here we go another boring speaker who probably is going to give us some speech about how it was very difficult in the old days and how we were a lucky lot. But boy was I wrong! but long story short he stood at the podium and asked "which one of you here can tell me what is a six-letter word that can bring you everything you want, and at the same time make you lose everything you want?"
The hall was full of silence you could slice it with a knife. "Anyone?" he insisted nobody's hands were up, I am thinking just get on with it. He pauses looks at the back of the hall then picks up chalk and writes on the board (HABITS). Looks at the crowd and everyone's faces brighten with some sort of realization. Like we knew the word we just could not figure it out. Tell you what, he got my attention.
Habits are the most subtle but moving thing we possess, see to us we do not even recognize them I mean it is very unlikely to consider some things we do are habits. I like the way one of the best investors in trading said it "the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to broken."
Habits make us who we are, what we do is innately driven by our habits so much so that even companies study human habits to make sales. The question now is how are you using your habits? or are they using you?
The goal is to recognize them and become their master so to speak, and not the other way around. To make them work for you and work towards your advantage. Remember they usually seem not to make any effect, they seem so subtle that it is easy to ignore them right? the thought of even thinking that habits can make you achieve anything almost sounds like a joke.
That is the trick, remember it is these little things that we do that add up to the bigger things. Consider an obese person for example before he/she becomes obese most likely does not even recognize their eating habits. It is only after some time that they realize that they weigh like a truck that is when the realization hits them.
Habits are very subtle, remember the key is to know yours and make them work for your advantage. Perhaps you even have a goal ask yourself what is the best habit that can get you there? what can I employ to work for me? and what can I get rid of? remember habits can also be learned.
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