HOW DO I CULTIVATE RIGHT HABITS

What I repeatedly do becomes my habit. Habits create our life. The rise and fall of man can be attributed to his habits. If somebody has made it big and somebody didn’t make it at all, you can be sure that those who made it big were masters of their habits. They were in control of their habits and were not controlled by their habits. Anything, even if imperfectly done, on a daily basis, produces far greater results than something that is done perfectly, but once in a way. Habits are formed very early in life. Everything that I do on a daily basis creates a memory cell in me. We need to take the effort to create the right memory cells.

First and foremost, we need to fix a goal for ourselves. What is it that we want to achieve. We should not begin with stretch goals. Aim for 1% improvement every day. Work on a couple of things first. Let’s begin small. Let us not put our hands into too many things. Every legendary person has certain qualities for which they are known. They have cultivated certain habits which became their master stroke. It is in conquering ourselves that we win.

 The giant of a personality within you emerges when you start practising one habit at a time consistently and achieve it. The mantra to achieve your goal is, Consistent Directed Self-motivated Intelligent Effort (CDSIE). Begin with one mental philosophy or habit, and when that becomes part of you, go to the next. Some of us fix one for a year and then go to the next.  Some of us go by the popular belief that anything that is practised for twenty- one days consistently becomes a habit. For example, if I decide to make punctuality a habit, I must consistently practise it for twenty-one days. The same goes for reading, exercising, meditating, appreciating people, eating the right food, and so on.

 We need to first develop a powerful mind. What gave me the strength to pick up the right habits and drop the unwanted ones, or, in other words, to give up in order to go up, was sitting in non-doing every day. This helped me to develop a powerful mind and it became a lot easier for me to choose what is right over what is easy and convenient. I always loved to sleep for long hours, I was lazy to exercise, I chose tongue conscious food over healthy food. But sitting in non-doing brought a lot of discipline in my life and helped me to choose meditation over sleep, exercise over TV time, healthy food over junk food and many more. What was necessary was made compulsory in my life. I became accountable to myself. Every time I developed the right habit, I grew in my own eyes. I not only started feeling good about myself, it also created a self-belief in me that I can. My life became more organised and I started experiencing a flow in my life by cultivating the right habits. If I can, you too can!

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