Success Is A Habit

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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

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Thought and Purpose

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Until thought is linked with purpose there is no
intelligent accomplishment. With the majority the
bark of thought is allowed to “drift” upon the ocean
of life. Aimlessness is a vice, and such drifting must
not continue for him who would steer clear of
catastrophe and destruction.
They who have no central purpose in their life fall
an easy prey to worries, fears, troubles, and self-
pityings, all of which are indications of weakness,
which lead, just as surely as deliberately planned
sins (though by a different route), to failure,
unhappiness, and loss, for weakness cannot persist
in a power-evolving universe.
A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in
his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should
make this purpose the centralizing point of his
thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or
it may be a worldly object, according to his nature
at the time being. But whichever it is, he should
steadily focus his thought forces upon the object
which he has set before him. He should make this
purpose his supreme duty, and should devote
himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts
to wander away into ephemeral fancies, longings,
and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-
control and true concentration of thought. Even if
he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose
(as he necessarily must until weakness is
overcome), the strength of character gained will
be the measure of his true success, and this will
form a new starting point for future power and
triumph.
Those who are not prepared for the apprehension of
a great purpose, should fix the thoughts upon the
faultless performance of their duty, no matter how
insignificant their task may appear. Only in this way
can the thoughts be gathered and focused, and
resolution and energy be developed, which being
done, there is nothing which may not be
accomplished.
The weakest soul, knowing its own weakness, and
believing this truth – that strength can only be
developed by effort and practice, will at once
begin to exert itself, and adding effort to effort,
patience to patience, and strength to strength, will
never cease to develop, and will at last grow
divinely strong.
As the physically weak man can make himself
strong by careful and patient training, so the man of
weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising
himself in right thinking.
To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to
begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of
those strong ones who only recognize failure as one
of the pathways to attainment; who make all
conditions serve them, and who think strongly,
attempt fearlessly, and accomplish masterfully.
Having conceived of his purpose, a man should
mentally mark out a straight pathway to its
achievement, looking neither to the right nor to the
left. Doubts and fears should be rigorously
excluded; they are disintegrating elements which
break up the straight line of effort, rendering it
crooked, ineffectual, useless. Thoughts of doubt
and fear never accomplish anything, and never can.
They always lead to failure. Purpose, energy, power
to do, and all strong thoughts cease when doubt and
fear creep in.
The will to do springs from the knowledge that we
can do. Doubt and fear are the great enemies of
knowledge, and he who encourages them, who
does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step.
He who has conquered doubt and fear has
conquered failure. His every thought is allied with
power, and all difficulties are bravely met and
wisely overcome. His purposes are seasonably
planted, and they bloom and bring forth fruit which
does not fall prematurely to the ground.
Thought allied fearlessly to purpose becomes
creative force. He who knows this is ready to
become something higher and stronger than a mere
bundle of wavering thoughts and fluctuating
sensations. He who does this has become the
conscious and intelligent wielder of his mental power.

Wale Adenekan