Have you ever wondered why it’s so hard to make a habit of that new exercise regime, or to practice consistently when you’re learning guitar, piano, Spanish, Chinese, or a myriad of other skills?  Continue reading →

Enlightened thinkers throughout history tell us of the power of habit.

Aristotle’s thoughts were summarized to perfection by Will Durant who said “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act but a habit.”

International motivational speaker, Brian Tracy, tells us that “Successful people are simply those with success habits.”

The right habit then can accelerate us along the tracks to success, while the wrong habit can derail or sidetrack us into harmful addiction or unthinking laziness.  I wish I’d learned to harness them much earlier in life and they will be going on THE list of things I’ll teach to my own kid.

Today I’ll describe how I learned to create a new habit in less than a week. Although it took almost six whole months of trial and error – mostly error, before I figured it out. And it all started with trying to create one simple new habit.

One piddling, measly, wafer-thin, new habit.  Continue reading →