Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Habit Control...

As most of us know, the more you do of something, it becomes more and more of a habit. Like brushing your teeth for instance. Most of us do it twice a day, and we hardly think about it, you just do it... A lot of these habits you just do without really knowing why.

As you might just be in our little self improvement world, you just might happen to be aware of the fact that good habits are a key to your success, and oftentimes bad habits are what brings us down and prevents us from reaching our goals.

Say you're in the HABIT of meditating every morning (which sadly, I'm not... I should be though) for 30 minutes or an hour, then you'll have the lifestyle you want in no time, all without really thinking about it! Or maybe you're in the habit of doing a 100 push ups and running 3 miles every day. Boom, you'll be totally lean in no time at all, again without really thinking too much about it.

Same thing would apply if you're in the habit of feeling bad about yourself every time you see someone else jogging by... You'd then ruin your physique instead. Crushing the bad habits is also essential because they're like roadblocks on the success highway.

Once you have established some super habits, you'll be living your desires faster than sound!!". You just have to make sure that the habit is a good one, like meditating for example.
Now the difficulty with this is the part where you actually have to establish the habit in the first place. The first few weeks and months will be pretty rough with repeating the same thing every day over and over.
Habits work in the way that by repeating a certain task enough times, your brain kinda moves that task over to the subconscious mind to take care of so your conscious mind doesn't have to.
I'd take a wild guess and tell you that smoking and drinking would be the most well known bad habits, and it gets ingrained even more deeply by the additives and toxic stuff.

So I've been blogging now for a few months. Guess what that has evolved into?

Yep, a habit. I'd say it's a good one... I have days where I go "Have I blogged yet today?" and I actually forget if I have posted or not on that day. It's pretty cool to realize this stuff and be aware of how your habits have evolved... I have like 10+ posts now.
I don't know what else to say on the subject, so just go and get yourself some awesome habits, I suggest meditation and I'm gonna attempt that one too.