Archive for Good Habits
November 27, 2007 at 4:32 pm · Filed under The Habit Code, Good Habits, Matthieu Ricard
Habits Of Happiness. Matthieu Ricard, Budhist Monk, Photographer and Author. Some people say he’s the happiest man on the planet. Happiness is a state of mind and so the theory is that if you can control the mind through meditation and concentration bad thoughts just pass through your concious ‘like a bird through the sky’. You do not dwell on them and they are only fleeting.
Good thoughts and Bad Thoughts can not be in the conscious mind at the same time, so I suppose meditation would be helpful.
See the video of Matthieu at the TED conference (Technology, Entertainment, Design) below
Ted.com’s Matthieu Ricard Talk
November 12, 2007 at 4:40 pm · Filed under The Habit Code, Good Habits
Benificial Habits - The human Psyche is made up of three components - The Mind, The Body and The Soul. The good habits that you follow on a regular basis feed these three parts of our make up. i.e. healthy habits such as jogging and walking nourish the Body part of the psyche, Reading, learning and study add to our Mind part and spiritual habits such as having faith, being touched by a kindly act, happiness and listening to music add to the Soul part.
Some acts benefit all of the Psyche, others just effect one part, but the habits that you have slowly but surely nourish you as a person. In the habit code these habits are represented by the three colored arrows shown in a cyclic graphic. Each part of the psyche is represented by one color. The Mind is shown below in red
Red = The Mind
Green = The Body
Blue = The Soul
As you go about your everyday life your Good habits slowly nourish these three parts of the Psyche. This is an accumulative energy and the more good habits you have the more that each of these three nodes benefits.
So the three parts of your psyche are fed energy from your habits continually, and this energy is accumulated.
July 17, 2007 at 1:05 pm · Filed under The Habit Code, Good Habits, Napoleon Hill
If you take an interest in Self Improvement then you will realize that it is a continuous process and success cannot be acheived through reading just one self help book.
One habit that Napoleon Hill discovered successful people practice was what he dubbed R2A2. To gain the benefits you:
Recognize - Recognize a principle, technique or improvement that will benefit you.
Relate - Relate the improvement to your beliefs, experience, business or life.
Assimilate - Assimilate the improvement into your daily routine.
Apply - Take action and make the Improvement a Habit.
April 5, 2007 at 2:23 pm · Filed under The Habit Code, Good Habits, Napoleon Hill, Andrew Carnegie
Reading through one of Napoleon Hill’s books “How To Raise Your Own Salary” I come to a chapter about Learning From Defeat.
The Book is a breakdown of what was said between Hill and Carnegie during their meetings in 1908. In my search for confirming the link between Personal development, success and habit I am trying to link up as many connections as I can and here, in this book is one great big humdinger of a connection.
I quote…
Napoleon Hill: “From what you say about habits, I reach the conclusion that Success is a habit”
Andrew Carnegie: “Now you are getting the idea! Of course success is a habit”
March 7, 2007 at 11:45 am · Filed under The Habit Code, Good Habits, Habit Quotes, Napoleon Hill
“Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.” - Napoleon Hill.
Napoleon Hill. He knew the importance of Habit.
March 7, 2007 at 11:35 am · Filed under The Habit Code, Good Habits, Bad Habits, Benjamin Franklin
Can you learn the success habit?
Is it possible to get a list of the habits of successful people and then copy their habits until they become your own?
Also Is it just those habits that they DO or is it the Bad Habits that they avoid?
Benjamin Franklin had his theory of Moral Perfection.
His 13 ‘Virtues’ were as follows.
Temperance: Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
Silence: Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
Order: Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
Resolution: Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
Frugality: Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.
Industry: Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
Moderation: Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.
Tranquility: Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
Chastity: Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another’s peace or reputation.
Humility: Imitate Jesus and Socrates.
Looking at his virtues, it consists not only of habits to do, but of habits to moderate, or give up altogether.
Sometimes it is the things you don’t do, that are the hardest to control.
You can also see that a fine balance in the things you do is important too. Balance is one of the Keys to success.
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 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
October 20, 2006 at 3:08 pm · Filed under Good Habits, Benjamin Franklin
One of the people I’m studying at the moment is Ben Franklin, in fact I just ordered his Autobiography on Amazon because I’m finding it very hard to read it properly on line. It should be here in a few days. I’ll let you know when it arrives.
The reason I’m studying Ben Franklin is because of his study of Habits. I think he called them Virtues. He believed that his personal happiness and development stemmed from the Virtues that he followed on a regular basis. I’m going to be talking more in depth about The types of habit and why he thought them to be so important in his life.
It’s strange, but the more and more I’m thinking about habits, and trying to write this book, the more positive I feel about it. I’ve also been reading ‘Think and Grow Rich’ by Napoleon Hill, and the ‘Desire’ to write this book is becoming an overpowring goal in my life that I want to complete. It’s going to be interesting…
