Habit is a routine of behaviour that is
repeated regularly and tends to occur unconsciously. In the American Journal of Psychology (1903) it is
defined in this way: “A habit, from the standpoint of
psychology, is a more or less fixed way of thinking,
willing, or feeling acquired through previous repetition of
a mental experience.” Habitual behaviour often goes
unnoticed in persons exhibiting it, because a person does
not need to engage in self-analysis when undertaking
routine tasks. Habits are sometimes compulsory.
The process by which new behaviours become automatic
is habit formation. Old habits are hard to break and
new habits are hard to form because the behavioural
patterns we repeat are imprinted in our neural pathways,
but it is possible to form new habits through
repetition.
I can help you stop a habit (temporarily) but you can stop it permanently. The fastest process to stop a habit is to replace old habit with new habit. Habit is hard to give up, especially when settled or with regular tendency. This requires hard work and time, changing and choosing of thoughts, environment and people and importantly, Prayer.
The Habits I’ve chosen are Reading Books (On Success) and Never to act or think Broke. I want to be successful and to do that I learned that I have to make Success a habit. Like Warren Buffett said “I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every
day, to just sit and think. That is very
uncommon in American business. I read and
think. So I do more reading and thinking, and
make less impulse decisions than most people
in business. I do it because I like this kind of
life.” Now to Warren Buffett “To Read and Think” is a habit. In Business today, Warren Buffett is the Legendary Value Investor. WE BECOME WHAT WE REPEATEDLY DO.
Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you
get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a
habit. – Gordon Parks
Be smart enough to make the right things a habit. The habits of God makes him God. He created us in his likeness and the bible says in Psalm 82:6 “ say, You are gods; you are all children of the
Most High.” We become what we repeatedly do. Do what will make you a god (a success). Desire it, cherish it and make it a habit.
I shall conclude with a quote from Samuel Smile “Sow a thought, and you reap an act;
Sow an act, and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit, and you reap a character;
Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.”
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Adewale Adenekan