So I have been going on at length about the value of habits and how they can become the silent drivers of not being busy, but getting a lot done. While I’m a big time advocate of conscious choices of habits, it really isn’t a new idea.
Below are several famous quotes on the topic of good habits, they are all open source statements, so feel free to tweet them with or without credit to this site.
“We do without doing and all gets done.”
“The skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.”
“Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.”
“I’ll habits gather by unseen degrees -- As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.”
“Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be.”
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“The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”
“Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.”
“We become what we repeatedly do.”
“Habits are either the best of servants or the worst of masters.”
“It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.”
“H is for Habit, winners make a habit of doing the things losers don't want to do.”
Each year one vicious habit rooted out. In time might make the worst Man good throughout.”
Sow a thought, and you reap an act;
Sow an act, and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit, and you reap a character;
Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
Control your habits is the royal road to productivity. There is no need to ‘try to achieve goals, nor have discipline, nor work hard against your nature. You get everything you desire just as a function of being alive and a little daily push closer to where you want to be. It is the snail’s way of going. The more I live this way, the more I get done with little to no effort. The less I understand why everyone else makes such a bloody big deal out of small jobs.
These ideas came to me later in life, yet I can’t take any credit for them. Using positive habits to build up your life has been around since the dawn of time. Here are some wonderful thought others had about habits and how they affect our lives.
For more on this topic, check out:
Ch07a: What is Overload Procrastination
Ch07b: Where people get Overloaded
Ch07c: Mind Your Habits!
Ch07d: How to Choose Better Habits
