How to Build Better Life Habits | Getting Unstuck

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour

Education, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health

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🗓️ 21 January 2016

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Listen to episode 27 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Build Better Life Habits (Getting Unstuck). Adapted from book The Mind & Its Education by George Herbert Betts.

Podcast Excerpt: Building better habits will require something of heroism on our part. For to follow the well-beaten path of custom is easy and pleasant, while to break out of the rut of habit and start a new line of action is difficult and disturbing. Most people prefer to keep doing things as they always have done them, to continue reading and thinking and believing as they have long been in the habit of doing, not so much because they feel that their way is best, but because it is easier than to change.

Hence the great mass of us settle down on the plane of mediocrity, and become "old fogies." We learn to do things passably well, cease to think about improving our ways of doing them, and fall into a rut. Only the few go on. They make use of habits as the rest do, but they also continue to modify them at critical points of action, and so make their habits an ally instead of accepting them as a tyrant.

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1:41.4	Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from the book entitled The Mind and its Education
1:46.2	by George Herbert Betts, published in 1906.
1:59.4	Habit is our best friend or worst enemy.
2:03.1	We are walking bundles of habits.
2:06.1	Habit is a cable which we cannot break.
2:09.5	Such are the popular expressions linked with habitual behavior.
2:14.6	In other words, let me know your habits of life and you have revealed your moral standards
2:19.4	and conduct. Let me discover your intellectual habits and I understand your type of mind
2:26.3	and methods of thought. In short, our lives are largely a daily round of activities dictated
2:33.4	by our habits in this line or that.
2:37.0	Most of our movements and acts are habitual. We think as we have formed the habit of thinking.
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