“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...
Read MoreThe Things You Need To Do To Live Longer
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...
Read MoreEach year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good…
“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...
Read MoreWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit…
“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...
Read MoreProcrastination is the bad habit…
“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.
Read More
Recent Comments