The Power of Habit

The Power of Habit
 
    “Habits deeply affect people’s thinking style. Good habits will determine your fate.”

    “Habits, which fill our lives, are subconsciously changing us every day.”

    “The secret of success is to break free from convention. The convention is nothing but habit.”

    “A rule as habit is, it undergoes changes whenever people are craving for a new progress. Therefore,
the best habit is to frequently change your habits.”

    “Good habits get you up the ladder of success.”
 
    “One’s essential habits in life determine his or her life.”

    Francis Bacon said “Life is a tenacious yet powerful force which dominates one’s life; therefore, one should develop a good habit through education.”

    Philosopher William James said: “Sow an act, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character,
reap a destiny.”

    Your life lies not in anything else but your habits. Good habits will lead you to the peak in your life,
to a bright and beautiful future.

    Habit is a recurrent, often unconscious pattern of behavior that is acquired through frequent repetition.
It is an established disposition of the mind or character, which is hard to remove. Research shows that up
to 90 percent of our everyday behavior is subconscious and simply based on habit. Influencing our life every moment, it atomized our thought and action. Once it is formed, it becomes a power to our life.
 
    Hu Zhiwei, a psychological consultation expert through his research discovered that our work and study are relevant to 20 percent of the intellectual factor and 80 percent of the non-intellectual ones. Among the non-intellectual factors such as confidence, will, habit, interest and character, habit plays a very important role. When we realize the fundamental importance of habits and adopt effective measures to develop good habits, our success can be assured.
 
    Successful life relies on good habits, which, as well as the bad ones, are gradually acquired through frequent repetition. The same way as they are formed, their outcome is the opposite. Good habit is a kind of virtue,
while bad habit is a kind of inertia.” Purposes go forth in action, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny. Habit is such a power which always influences our moral character, mind and way of thinking, and eventually determines our life. Only through the thinking and acts resulting from good habits can we go forward to a bright future.

    Losers might go in the right direction as winners. The former, however, differs from the latter mainly in that they finally fail to persevere. As an old saying goes: Constant dropping can wear the stone. People often attribute this to Power Will. As a matter of fact, the success would be much easier if you should have the habitual actions deeply rooted in your subconscious.
 
    Our mind consists of two separate parts: the conscious and subconscious. Your conscious mind is your awareness, while your subconscious hides behind the former one, waiting quietly. The mind can be compared to the iceberg, and the conscious mind is only the tip of it. Many mysteries of human lie simply in the subconscious. According to the research, up to ninety percent of our everyday behaviors gradually become routines because of continuous repetition. Subconsciously one just behaves. Such subconscious power of
habit, which will one day cause enormous change in the subject.
 
    Sow an act, reap a habit; reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny. Our everyday behaviors are repeated and finally enter the subconscious. If you manage to make use of the subconscious skills, you will definitely build up a long lasting mechanism which is automatically operative, and your dream will be well realized.
 
    Here is a story of elephant Linwang. He was imprisoned in the zoo when he was very young. One day, he attempted to burst free from the iron chain which tied his nose, so as to visit monkeys outside, Yet his nose
was terribly torn by the chain. Linwang then told himself with tears that it was impossible for him to get rid of the chain. Half a year later, the idea of roaming out flashed upon his mind. Again his nose was torn by the
chain. The two unsuccessful attempts finally forced him to give up all ideas of going out. Little Linwang
grew up year after later. Yet he never dreamed to go out any more for he assumed that he would never
manage to free himself from the chain. What he did not know is that it was but a piece of cake for him to
defeat the chain since he had become strong and powerful. In the walled house Linwang spent his whole life. Such tragedy is being played everyday. It belongs not only to animals. It is also necessary for human to ask ourselves: Am I another Linwang? Very likely you are!

    The tragedy of Linwang results from his negative knowledge gained from his two unsuccessful experiences, which misled him into believing that is impossible for him to break away from the chain. The psychological suggestion of two-time self-denials entered his subconscious, and every time when he tried to do the same thing, his reactions are thus similar. Once the habitual thoughts become the subconscious, the majority of our everyday behaviors simply changed into habit.

    Nearly all of what we do each day is simply habit. When we get up; the way we have bath, brush teeth, get dressed, read newspaper, have breakfast and drive for work, all of them, belong to hundreds of habits. It is very much necessary for us to think out habits over, and then to struggle to replace the bad habits with good ones. Small change it may be, it will surely bring you a lot one day.

    Let the good habits become your subconscious. In that case you will involuntarily proceed forward under
the guide of a navigator which will take you to the shore of success.

    Start reading right now. The power of subconscious is just rising at the back of our mind!

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