Are you a Creature of Habits?Creature of HabitsAre You a Creature of Habits? Yes. You are. Everything about you is determined by the force of your habit. From early infancy, you are influenced by the law of habit. Your actions, words, and thoughts form a channel in which you continuously seek to dwell. Only by strong determination and painful effort can you decide to turn aside and move into new and fresh channel. You are not aware the moment your habits are being formed. You get aware only when you are already under the control of this great power. It manifests only when habit force strongly compels you to prefer act in a certain and fixed way. Habit is Your Life’s unbreakable Cable. A single action does not create a habit. It takes repeated action and maybe several times for months before a habit is formed. But immediately it is formed, it is enough to make you a complete creature of habits. True, a single thread would not form a rope. It contains only a very limited amount of strength. But what happens when you lay and twist many of such tread together? You get a powerful cable which when attached to a ship could withstand the fiercest storm at sea. The forceful cable represents your habit and its power. It is then strong enough to make you a new creature of habits. It becomes so powerful and difficult to break. Hence the Bible question: "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil." Hence, you can easily become a creature of habits of good or evil. The choice is yours to choose to entertain bad or desirable habits. Your Habit is Your Choice You may not be aware of it, but you are constantly waving the threads of habit. Day by day, the strands increase in weight and power as the threads are twisted tighter together. Very soon, they become strong and unbending cords. The cords of your habit bind you to practices and customs that eventually fix your character and thus your chances in life. You wave a thread of habit any time you make a choice or take a course of action. Your habits are results of your past thoughts and decisions. So that your present state or condition is certainly the result of your past decisions and actions Since not all your decisions are based on the truth, it is very likely you have some bad habits to deal with. You need to deal with them since they have the potential to prevent you from reaching your life goals. The good news is you are free to choose. You can take a new path in life. You can make a new decision right away which would affect in a permanent and positive ways your entire life and future. You can decide to conquer your bad habits. Make that decision your goal and choice. Two Basic Kinds of Habits There are two major types of habits. You habits may be:
Throughout your life time, you would need to cultivate new healthy habits. At the same time, you would need to break bad habits. This is a continuous process. See also: |