"We are what we do repeatedly. Excellence is, therefore, not an action, but a habit." - Aristotel
When you make a thing over and over it becomes second nature. Repetition is the mother of learning, you may have heard. Our habits define our entire future, and it is easy to figure that out. I am just here to make you see it.
It is very important to realize that the things you do everyday and how you make them, when you add the days up and you add the things you have made, you will have a result.
It is like a balance. If you put more weight on one side, guess what, the balance will tilt on the side you put the most weight. If you have a bad habit, the balance will tilt that way. If you have a good habit...You get the idea.
If you like drinking, you become an alcoholic, your liver gets sick and you die. If you enjoy eating junk-food,you get fat, you die of obesity, and you don't even get to meet you grandchildren, if you get to meet your own children...
Everyday you put something in the balance.
It doesn't matter how many things you've put on the balance. Just the way it tilts. That is the most important thing, and you can feel it right now. You are always aware of your inner balance, but you like lying to yourself more than you know.
"First of all, we create our habits. Then, our habits create us. Overpower your bad habits, or they will overpower you." - Rob Gilbert
So, habits are the key. Technically, that is what I want to do in this article: to help you create one new, healthy, habbit. That is because I care about you.
The moment you develop a new habit something very strange, but beautiful happens. You no longer require mental focus to do that. No more energy is needed to get you moving to do this. Let's take the example of brushing your teeth (I really hope you are brushing your teeth after every meal) . Remember how much you disliked this as a child? Your parents constantly begging for you to brush your teeth? Remember how strange you felt when they were not arround to tell you to brush them? You were like: "Not brushing them once won't make a difference...I'll brush my teeth in the evening." But now, that it has become a habit, you aren't even thinking of not brushing your teeth. It has become second nature.
And this thing happens with all new habits. It takes about 30 days to form a new habit, and a little more to get rid of an old habit. So in like 40 days you could reinvent yourself. A whole new life, a better life, just with the power of your mind.
In the first 10 days you will have to outcome the "G-force". The G-force is what I call the comfort zone. You ask yourself: "Why do I have to do this? Who makes me do this? It's so hard...I want to quit. I'll go to gym next month!" If you go 10 days to the gym these thoughts will significantly decrease.
Day 10 to 20 you will fight resistance. It is not as hard as the first 10 days, but you will have to make some mental effort, and will power will decrease. Something pulls you back. Fight it!
Day 20 to 30. You begin to acknowledge that the new habit may be good for you, and you need less will power to do that new thing.
Stephen Covey said: "Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny."
So it all starts with a thought. What do you have in mind? What destiny do you want for yourself?
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