Archive for November, 2006
November 30, 2006 at 3:24 pm · Filed under The Habit Code
I’ve just been re-reading Napoleon Hill’s Biography by Kirk Landers “A Lifetime of Riches” and it goes on about a certain state of mind that Andrew Carnegie used to call the concept of your ”other self”… a state of mind that can give you the capacity to change your habits when you are faced with a crisis or some other extremely emotional state of mind.
This is spooky because I was in this state of mind the day I stoped smoking. I could really feel that my subconcious was ready to stop the smoking habit and was giving me the sign to acknowledge it. I was very ill at the time and this combination allowed me to simply give up overnight.
This state of ‘Other Self’ does seem to crop up in a lot of successful peoples lives, it just might be one of the key ingredients of ‘The Habit Code’ we’ll just have to see.
John.
November 27, 2006 at 4:16 pm · Filed under The Habit Code
Ok… so I’ve missed out a few steps in my quest to find The Habit Code, ( I never said I was organized), but I’ve just taken the next step…
Napoleon Hill in Law Of Success states the name of one Orison Swett Marden, Marden was a true Success Studier, He sought to identify the most common rules of leadership, achievement and success just as much as you and I study today.
One of Mardens outstanding works is supposed to be a book he wrote originally in 1894 but then extensively revised and added to, publishing the second version in 1911. The book was called Pushing To The Front. A huge book >800 pages going in depth into what Marden thought the traits of success were.
One interesting thing is that One of the chapters is called Habit - Master and Servant.
I can’t wait to get the book. And read this chapter.
November 23, 2006 at 1:40 am · Filed under Habit Quotes
“I Tell You, Friend, ’tis Practice Long Pursued, And This At Last Becomes A Man’s Own Nature” - Evenus from Aristotles Nicomachean Ethics.
This quote attributed to Evenus is from Aristotles Nicomachean Ethics. I just received the book yesterday and I’m picking out the habit passages from the book… very interesting. The Object Of Life - Moral Goodness - Moral Responsibility - Justice - Intelectual Virtues - The Nature Of Pleasure - The Kinds Of Friendship - The Grounds Of Friendship - Pleasure And The Life Of Happiness.
I’m sure Aristotle will play another large role in The Habit Code…
November 16, 2006 at 6:38 pm · Filed under What Are Habits, Habit Quotes
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. -Horace Mann
This quote is attributed to Horace Mann (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Mann).
As such, Horace Mann has got the formation of habit down to a near perfect explanation. The cable can be related to the firing of neurons in the brain. Each repetition of an action produces another neuron pathway and the strengthening of the action and hence the habit.
November 16, 2006 at 3:29 pm · Filed under Health Habits
I always try to pick up on news stories on the radio or TV that mention habits. Yesterday I heard one from the BBC’s radio 2 news report on the things you need to do in your life to live longer. It turns out that the habits you have during MID Life contribute the most towards your eventual health and life expenditure. The report was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (http://jama.ama-assn.org/)
The report studied a large group of men for over 40 years and decided what the factors were from the beginning of the study that allowed a certain percentage of the group to reach what was called Exceptional survival i.e. reaching an age of at least 75 years of age with all your faculties intact and without incidence of any one of 6 major chronic diseases.
link to article: http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/296/19/2343
November 11, 2006 at 4:42 pm · Filed under Habit Quotes
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. - Benjamin Franklin.
Attributed to Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin was always a pioneer in relation to Habits. His Autobiography goes in to detail of how he set about to learn virtues that were good and wrote a diary in which he recorded the times that he correctly persued a ‘good’ habit rather than a ‘bad’ habit.
Benjamin Franklin will also appear more when I’ve studied his work thoroughly.
November 10, 2006 at 2:00 pm · Filed under Habit Quotes
”We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit” - Aristotle
This quote is attributed to Aristotle. Habits are the things we do on a regular basis. Aristotle wrote about habits in his famous work Nicomachean Ethics (see wikipedia)… It is one of my basis points for The Habit Code and will be discussed further in my research.
November 10, 2006 at 11:50 am · Filed under Habit Quotes, Procrastination
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. - Napoleon Hill
Attributed to Napoleon Hill. It is Napoleon Hills books that have fired up my study of habits. Especially in relationship to the Foundation of Personal Development.
November 9, 2006 at 12:13 pm · Filed under Bad Habits, Smoking
November 16th 2006 is the day to give up smoking - well it is if you are in the USA.
November 16th is the day when over one million people will kick cigarette smoking into touch. Started in 1976 when the California Division of the American Cancer Society successfully prompted nearly one million smokers to quit for the day, the Great American Smokeout is the time when you can stop yourself, or if you’re not stopping just now, help your family, friends and neighbors to stop the smoking habit.
If you think it’s time to stop, then get further help and details from the American Cancer Society here:
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/ped_10_4.asp
For history on The Great American Smokeout go here:
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_10_5_Great_American_Smokeout_History.asp
November 8, 2006 at 2:48 pm · Filed under Good Habits, Health Habits
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Website has some tips to avoiding the flu this season.
The major habit is to get yourself a FLU immunisation every autumn. The others are:
1. Avoid close contact.
2. Stay home when you are sick.
3. Cover your mouth and nose.
4. Clean your hands.
5. Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth.
6. Practice other good health habits.
Common sense you may say but if it can stop the Flu then I’m all for it.
See http://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/habits.htm for further detail
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