Habits are very important. Your habits define who you are.
What you do will influence what you do automatically and what you do automatically defines you as a person.
Your habits define you more than you may realize.
In sports players practice what they want to happen over and over again until what they want to do becomes a habit. The perfect golf swing comes from swinging perfectly thousands of times so when the game is on the swing is automatic. The great swing has become a habit. When the great swing becomes a habit, the player can concentrate on situational strategy during the game without consciously thinking about the mechanics of the swing.
In sports the player who cannot make it to the game in time doesn't play. Great, and even average players, make it a habit to show up on time.
Life is like sports, if we practice what we want to be we can become it.
If your habit is to get up early each morning you will do it automatically.
If your habit is to be courteous to others you will do it automatically.
If your habit is to be honest you will do it automatically.
If your habit is to do the most important things first, you will do it automatically.
If your habit is to shower every day you will do it automatically.
If your habit is to use the toilet and not your pants you will do it automatically.
We don't start life with these habits, we learn them.
We learn them by consciously doing them over and over again until we don't even think of it.
Is it always the most convenient to use the toilet? Just ask a toddler. It is not, but we learn at a young age to accept the inconvenience of interrupting what we do to use the toilet.
Decide what kind of a person you want to be, then determine what habits that person would have, then consciously do those things. Eventually they will become your habits and you will become the person you want to be.
Rick
