Habits

A habit has been defined as “a conditioned response to stimuli,” but where do they
originate? A habit is developed as the result of your responding in a particular way
to a particular stimulus, often starting early in life. It is very much like driving
down the road and taking a fork in one direction or another. Whichever direction
you go, good or bad, largely determines where you end up.
Fortunately, you are born with no habits at all. You have acquired them all from
infancy. Different habits take different time periods to develop, if you desire them,
or to overcome, if they are habits that you want to get rid of. As it happens, there is
a proven system that you can use to accelerate the process of new habit pattern
development.

How long does it take to develop a new habit? The time period can be any length
from a single second to several years. The speed of new habit pattern development
is largely determined by the intensity of the emotion that accompanies the decision
to begin acting in a particular way.


Culled from Million Dollar Habits by Brian Tracy

Abdulkareem,Taoheedah Kehinde