Habits
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Habits are patterns of thought and behavior that are repeated regularly. They include habitual ways of thinking, acting, reacting, speaking, and doing. What begins as a conscious choice can, through repetition, become habits.
Habits run on thoughts. While they aren’t thoughts themselves, they are triggered and sustained by thinking patterns.
They are usually easy for others to observe because they are expressed through your behavior. Ironically, they are often harder for us to recognize in ourselves because we perform them so automatically.
There are good habits and bad habits.
Good habits have benefits and bad habits have consequences.
Habits are not yet ingrained as “attitudes.”
Let only good habits become repeated frequently enough to become attitudes.
Notable Thoughts About Habits
“Your habits (and the attitudes they produce), whether good or bad, will ultimately determine your quality of life.” – Dennis Waitley (emphasis added)
“To change a bad habit make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.” – Maxwell Maltz
“Habits repeated frequently enough become ingrained as attitudes (both good and bad) which automatically trigger actions and reactions, without a conscious thought.” (Attitudes produces actions and reactions on auto-pilot). RAC
Commit this rule to memory:
Rule #4 – Through the repetition of thoughts, your actions and reactions become habits.
