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.

456. There is No Need for Misery of Any Kind

Pain and Misery are unnecessary and will finally come to an end once you take control of 3 things :

(a) How you feel
(b) How you think
(c) How you act.

Once you control these 3 you will be able to modify the course of your life.

265. Pain as the Spur to a Counter-attack

When, in combat, your opponent breaks through your defense, and lands a blow, you will feel pain. Pain is your friend. It is essential to ignore the negative aspect of pain (the fact that it hurts like hell) and instead of giving up, use it as a spur to your counter-attack.

In the psychology of an assault, your attacker only thinks of causing you damage, and rarely, if ever thinks of what you may do. When you launch an effective counter-attack, you will cut down his ego by 50%. Follow up immediately and get busy to finish the fight...hard.

75. Pain and Misery are Unnecessary

Pain and Misery are completely unnecessary and finally end for good when you take full charge of your beliefs, feelings and actions.