Discard Your Bad Habits

 
 

"Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good."_Benjamin Franklin

 

Bad behaviors can be fatal when they become habits. By the same token, good behaviors are invaluable when they become habits.

Good habits accelerate the achievements of our dreams more than anything else. In fact, good habits are the only indispensable key to sticking to any long-term vision, irrespective of external circumstances or our internal mood.

Though, some of our habits are sub-optimal and they are programmed into our lifestyle at a very young age by the influences of our immediate environment. Yet, as intelligent human beings, we have the free will to take charge of any habit that doesn’t contribute to our highest good.

Therefore, when we have enough compelling reasons, we can reprogram ourselves for success by replacing our limiting bad habits with empowering good ones.

Once we realize that what lives is what is fed, we will starve our bad habits to kill them. If we stop indulging in bad habits, and we stop long enough, we will eventually develop good habits. If we remove errors, what’s left is the truth.

In other words, it takes a good habit to replace a bad habit. And deciding to starve a bad habit is in itself a good habit.

However, succeeding at this requires some measure of strict self-discipline to stay on track in the positive direction that we have chosen to go.

Therefore, if we are willing to be uncomfortable in the short term, we will press ahead beyond the initial stage of pain. And when we do, we will be rewarded with a far better life in the future.

The author of, ‘the Greatest Miracle in the World’ Og Mandino sums everything up for us when he said:

"Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure."

Finally, I say that if you despise failure of all kinds, then discard your key bad habits to keep the doors of mediocrity permanently closed in your life.