Habits

Take control of your habits, Take control of your life

Enjoying those 10 minutes extra sleep after the alarm starts snoozing, having an early morning stroll, sipping those extra cup of coffees while newspaper dances in hand, missing the morning train just by 10 minutes delay , cursing the boss for not understanding your justification ,getting used to it as a daily morning chanting.. Every series of your actions and their consequences  ,perhaps you would like to call it your fate revolves around those regular tendencies that you build on, your “Habits”!

 

Habit, the word by itself could be demonstrated as unbreakable. Trying to eliminate the letters from the left, eliminating the first letter leaves you with ‘abit’ (a bit) which shows it still endures, followed by ‘bit’ still there, ‘it ‘ you haven’t still reasonably given it up and finally ‘T’(tea) which is also a habit. That was just  a dry humor on the word  and it’s robustness. Yet, a habit unmistakably is not easy to be given up!  The strange thing about habits are we define them through our actions, and in course of time define us.

 

Our father of nation Mahatma Gandhi quotes habit as follows:“Your beliefs become your thoughts, 

Your thoughts become your words, 
Your words become your actions, 
Your actions become your habits, 
Your habits become your values, 
Your values become your destiny.” 

Which clearly shows there is a direct relation between what we what ought to be and what we do!

 

Based on our thoughts our habits can be classified as either good or bad. While good habits catapult us towards a bright future, bad habits become a bane to our life. Good habits may need an extra effort to get along as a pattern while bad habits find their way into one’s life easily.  As the saying goes  ‘Bad habits are like your comfortable beds, easy to get into, cozy to continue, hard to get out’! There may be several factors that direct our actions into our habits out of which the people that we surround ourselves with, the routines/things that gives us comfort being the prominent ones. Good habits are acquired by practice that takes significant time while bad habit take the form of addiction that become hard to let go.

 

Since in the course of time our habits start manifesting as our dispositions, it’s in our hand to let them grow or cut them off when they are still at their inceptive stage. As we are very well aware which of them serves better in the long run, if we are not proud enough to share our habits then it's a time we change them.

Reviews

[Saddam]

While good habits catapult us towards a bright future, bad habits become a bane to our life.

Great thought here. I have many bad habits too, but this is inspiring and I'll try to get them into life. Thanks.

[Deepika]

I'm glad that you find my writings inspiring :)

[Saddam]

Yes, they are. Welcome dear.
One man is enough for changing........... you are one of them.

[Deepika]

thank you! :)