Building Good Habits and Destroying Bad Ones
“Successful people are simply those with successful habits.”
— Brian Tracy
Habits are like trees. The longer they grow, the deeper they root, and the harder they are to remove. This can be good and bad. Only you can choose what habits you allow to root deep within. The first part to building good habits is to be aware of your bad habits. The more bad habits you can get rid of, the easier it will be for you to begin building good habits. A garden full of weeds makes it hard to grow anything worth eating.
You can practice building good habits by writing down the good habits that you want to establish. Look at them every day, and make sure you are working on them.
This works for getting rid of your bad habits as well. Write down the bad habits that you need to get rid of, and make sure you are working on eliminating them every day.
Watch the dramatic improvement you will make with these simple yet powerful strategies.
Congratulations! You’re currently practicing a great habit — reading. You should feel great about yourself for taking the initiative to better yourself. We will get more into why it is important to feel good about yourself as we get deeper into the book.
When trying to figure out what a good habit is versus a bad, remember this saying: “The wrong thing is usually the easier thing to do.” Put another way, we might say, “The right thing is usually the harder thing to do.”
Examples of good and bad habits:
Random Fact
Adult dragonflies have legs, but they cannot walk.
