‘Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.’ ~ Spanish Proverb
Let's face it: most of us fail when it comes to sticking to resolutions -- so much so that many people swear never to make resolutions again.
And...
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"Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables." - Spanish Proverb
It's that time of year -- the end part -- when people start thinking about their lives, their goals, their habits, and how to change everything...
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle
Our daily lives are often a series of habits played out through the day, a trammeled existence fettered by the slow accretion of our previous actions.
But habits can be changed, as difficult as that may seem sometimes.
I'm a living example: in tiny, almost infinitesimal...
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“Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.” - William Shakespeare
How many times have you rushed into making changes in your life -- a habit change, learning a new skill -- only to have it flop?
It's...
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Editor's note: This is a guest post from Ian Newby-Clark of
My Bad Habits.
Control yourself!” We all say it, mostly to ourselves. We say it when we ‘indulge’ in behaviors that cause short-term gain for long-term pain. And guilt. I cite many of the usual suspects: eating the wrong things, being lazy, staying up too late, drinking...
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I've done it before and I'm sure many of you have as well: decided I wanted to completely change my life, from diet to exercise to productivity habits to spending and career and family and more.
I've failed in the attempt to do this at least a few times.
I've also done it successfully. You might have read
my story, but basically I went from...
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One of the biggest problems people face is the lack of discipline -- they have goals or habits they want to achieve, but lack that discipline needed to stick with it.
Then we beat ourselves up about it. We feel crappy because we can't stick with it.
And...
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We learn more by doing than by reading.
That's a simplified statement, of course, because reading teaches us a lot, but it's in the actual doing of things that we do our real learning. It may be a fairly harmless statement for most of us, but think about...
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