552. The Pain of Breaking Old Habits

When breaking yourself of habits that you have identified as being harmful to you, you should know that it will be a painful procedure. You WILL get cut. All you can do is to make sure that you are cut with the sharp butcher's knife, not the blunt butter knife. When breaking the habit do it once and for all time. Do not try to ease out of it because that way you just stay in the comfort zone and before you know it the habit has re-established itself. The butcher's knife is fast and clean, the butter knife slow and painful.

346. Being the Transition

Learn to become a "transition" person. i.e. become the one who prevents unworthy thoughts, habits, ideas, practices, tendencies, traditions etc. from being passed on to the next generation. To do this, you first need to identify what they are and eliminate them in yourself. The next generation, when it arrives will never have seen them in you and will not carry them forward. Establish fine and worthy traditions of your own to pass on instead.

206. Habits

"We are what we repeatedly do.

Excellence then, is not an act but a habit." -Aristotle.

"Habits are like a cable. We weave a new strand every day and soon it cannot be broken. -Horace Mann.

"It is easier today to triumph over evil habits than it will be tomorrow." - Confucius.

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