Break the Prison of Habit

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
- John Dryden

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.
- Mike Murdock

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living,
new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.
- Henry Van Dyke

Most of us are prisoners of habit, and don't even notice that we do the same things, think the same things, want the same things each day - mostly without conscious thought.

Today, examine your beliefs, your actions, your wants, to determine whether they still represent your highest purpose.

Further reading: Life Choices

How to Break Your Bad Habit

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Our Habits

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
- John Dryden

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac

If we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions.
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives,
but what we do consistently.
- Anthony Robbins

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown (also attributed to Albert Einstein)

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy

Most of us are prisoners of habit, and don't even notice that we do the same things, think the same things, want the same things each day - mostly without conscious thought.

Today, examine your beliefs, your actions, your wants, to determine whether they still represent your highest purpose.

Choose your Habits, Choose your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Habits - Like Water to a Fish

How to Break Your Bad Habit

Life Choices

Discipline

Getting Better

Habit

Habits

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.
- Robert Foster Bennett

We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden

There are good habits, like exercising daily. There are bad habits, like smoking. And there are habits of mindless routine, like hour upon hour of watching television shows that you aren't really interested in.

Begin this new year by writing down how you spend your days. Consider making changes where you see either bad habits or mindless routine.

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For more on habits, read Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life

Further reading: How to Keep Your New Years Resolutions

Daily Habits

We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
- Herbert Kaufman

People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar

We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)

If something is truly important to you, make it a daily habit. If healthy eating is important, make it a daily habit. If exercise is important, do it daily. If prayer is important, do it daily.

What you don't do daily, you probably won't do weekly either. What you make a habit of putting-off just keeps getting pushed away again and again.

If something is important to you, attend to it immediately, and regularly. If something is not really important to you, that's great also - just scratch it off your to-do list forever, and never worry about it again. Choose how you invest your time, and honor your choices.

Are you putting off living the life you've always longed for? Begin the true work of your life right now.

Further reading: Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life

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You are defined by your habits.

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
- John Dryden

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
- Robert Baden-Powell (the founder of scouting)

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain (humorist)

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy

You are defined by your habits - choose well.

Further reading: 5 Secrets For Breaking Your Bad Habits