Our habits have all what it takes to pull us towards success or towards failures. Habit is just anything that you do often and in most cases you do it unconsciously. Just as there are successful habits, there are unsuccessful habits as well. The success that we have and the failures that come our way is as a result of the habits we have formed overtime.
We are not born with habits, God gave humanity the entire privilege to create their own their habits, all the habits we have today are all learned. This is how habits are formed. Most of the thoughts that occupy our mind tend to influence our decisions, and it’s our decisions that determine our actions. And any action you do repeatedly with time, it will eventually turn out to become your habits. And your habits pull you towards success or towards failures.
Orison Swett Marden says “The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably.” The truth is that we first form our habits and later our habits take charge of our lives. Habits are powerful, they reflects what is in our minds.
When you do something everyday, it becomes your habit either good or bad. So you must consciously select the thoughts that dwells in your mind. Because before you know it, it will become a habit. And habits can be the best servants or the worst master. You can direct your habits or your habits can direct you.
Most of the successful people you have seen and heard of took their time to build successful habits. One of American’s notable inventors George Washington Carver says “Ninety-Nine percent of the failures come from people that have the habits of making excuses” come to think of it, he is saying the truth.
A good habit or a bad habit is a matter of choice. Remember it takes twenty one days to form any habit. If you want to form any habit, repeat an act for twenty one days and it will sure become your habit. If you want to develop the habit of reading, set out some hours of everyday to read, do it continuously for twenty one days, it might be difficult initially, but keep doing it, after twenty one days, you will no longer force yourself to read. If you want to be doing twenty sit ups and press ups everyday, do it for twenty one days and after twenty one days you will find yourself doing it without much stress.
Smoking is one very strong bad habit that a lot of people finds difficult to leave. If indeed you want to stop smoking, discipline yourself to steer clear from cigarettes for twenty one days, I know it’s going to be difficult, just do it. After twenty one days, you would have succeeded in dropping the habit of smoking. It’s applicable to any habits whether good or bad.
Well I will still advice that if you want to stop any habit; you must be willingly to substitute it with another habit that you would want to imbibe into your lifestyle. It works and it can work for you as well. Remember you can only hold one thought at a time in your mind either positive or negative. This is Julienne Berk’s view “Habits…the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction...You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction”
Your habit is your second nature. Success requires that you make good habits your second nature. Make up your mind to build good habits, go through the process of twenty one days. The process has the credentials to help you build good habits. Never allow negative habits ruin your present and your future. Remember it will take you twenty one days of discipline to start seeing consistent changes in the way you think and act. But I know it will be worth it.
En-route to success unlimited, we know that;
“We are what we repeatedly do; Excellence is therefore not an act but a habit.”
- Aristotle.
“Choose the life that is most useful, and Habit will make it the most agreeable.”
- Sir Francis Bacon
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