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We are formed or destroyed by our habits to a greater extent than we care to confess. Habit serves as a fantastic friend and a strong foe of focus. You have to learn how to break habits that hurt your concentration and develop ones that help it.
Most individuals are controlled by their behaviors and are pushed around by them as if they were a piece of wood tossed about by the ocean's waves. The force of habit dictates how they perform things. They seldom consider why they do them in one way or another, or study whether they might do them in a better way. In this chapter, I want to
help you focus on your habits so you can determine which ones are beneficial and which ones are not. You'll see that by implementing a few essential adjustments, you can even make those that are bad for you helpful, and the good behaviors you may improve greatly.
The first thing I want you to know is that your will, consciously or unconsciously, controls all of your behaviors. Most of us are constantly acquiring new habits. Usually, if you'll develop the habit of doing something a particular way if you do it that way numerous times. However, the more times you repeat it, the stronger that habit gets and the more ingrained it becomes in your character. After a habit has been in place for a long time, it starts to get nearly a component of you, and as such, it is difficult to defeat. Nevertheless, you may still develop any habit by focusing intently on the reverse.
"Our entire life, to the extent that it has a clear form, is merely a collection of habits practical, emotional, and intellectual methodically arranged for our well-being or misfortune, and irresistibly leading us toward our fate, whatever that may be."
"Imitators and copiers of our prior selves," we are creatures of habit. We are apt to be "curved" or "bent" in the same way that a sheet of paper may be bent, and every fold leaves a crease, which makes it simpler to make the fold there the following time. "The intellect and will are spiritual faculties, yet they are steeped in matter, and every motion of theirs corresponds to a movement in the brain, that is, in their material counterpart." This is why habits of thinking and willing may be developed. All physical impressions are the performance of the will and intellect's acts. Because of how they've been trained, our nervous systems are what they are now.
Most of us turn more and more into automatic machines as we age. Our habits have become stronger. In the traditional way, we do our work. Your colleagues learn to anticipate a certain way of doing things. So you understand that your routines create a significant difference, you should only create the latter because it is nearly as simple to create positive habits as it is negative ones. Only yourself is to blame for your behavior. You have the option of establishing the habits that are appropriate for you, and if everyone could see the value of doing so.
How different the planet would be if you had the correct kind of behaviors. Everybody would be much happier. Then success would be achieved by all, not only a select handful.
Even if we have already passed the plastic period of youth, the best time to start controlling our habits is right now since we will never be any younger. Habits are formed more quickly when we are young.
The following Precept are worth remembering.
First Precept:
"We should consider our neurological system to be our ally, not our adversary."
Second Precept:
"In the acquisition of a new habit, as well as in the abandonment of an old one, we must make sure to embark with the strongest and most determined initiative imaginable."
It is crucial for you to focus carefully on habits that strengthen excellent character since a person who has always performed the proper thing since childhood has just decent motives motivations. Use any tools that can help. Avoid developing unhealthy behaviors that can put your life in risk. Start over now.
Examine the reasons behind your actions. Avoid them from now on if they are not to your advantage. For every temptation you succumb to, you strengthen the chain of bad habits, so don't give in to even one. Each time you maintain a resolve, you sever the link that binds you.
Third Precept:
"Never let an exception happen until the new behavior is firmly ingrained in your existence." Until the new habit is established, you should never give up, as else you would reverse all of your efforts, achieved by earlier efforts. There are two inclinations that are in opposition to one other. One wishes to be rigid, while the other desires to surrender. You may become steady via frequent repetition if you put your will into it. To be able to handle all opposition, strengthen your will.
The fourth Precept:
"Take immediate advantage of any chance you have to implement every decision you make and on every occasion, emotional cues you could feel toward the routines you wish to establish.
It's not very helpful to make a decision and then not follow through. Therefore, by all means, stick to every resolution you make because you not only benefit from the resolution, but it also gives you an exercise that causes the physiological correlatives and brain cells to develop the habit of adjusting themselves to execute decisions. "The brain "grows" to their usage and a proclivity to act becomes embedded in us in proportion to the continuous frequency with which the activities really take place." When a feeling or resolution is permitted to fade without producing any fruit,
A lost opportunity is worse than a piece of fruit. "
