Quotes About Habit

Siembra un pensamiento, cosecha una acción; siembra una acción, cosecha un hábito. Siembra un hábito, cosecha un carácter; siembra un carácter, cosecha un destino», dice el proverbio.

The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do," he observed. "They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose." That

Question 1: What one thing could you do (something you aren't doing now) that, if you did it on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your personal life? Question 2: What one thing in your business or professional life would bring similar results?

We are what we repeatedly do.

Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the motivation, the want to do. In order to make something a habit in our lives, we have to

we will define a habit as the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire.

Stephen R. Covey

Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the motivation, the want to do. In order to make something a habit in our lives, we have to have all three.

We react to urgent matters. Important matters that are not urgent require more initiative, more proactivity. We must act to seize opportunity, to make things happen. If we don't practice Habit 2, if we don't have a clear idea of what is important, of the results we desire in our lives, we are easily diverted into responding to the urgent.

For our purposes, we will define a habit as the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire. Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the motivation, the want to do. In order to make something a habit in our lives, we have to have all three.

common sense isn't always common practice.

habit as the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire.

may not even know I need to listen. Even if I do know that in order to interact effectively with others I really need to listen to them, I may not have the skill. I may not know how to really listen deeply to another human being. But knowing I need to listen and knowing how to listen is not enough. Unless I want to listen, unless I have the desire, it won't be a habit in my life. Creating a habit requires work in all three dimensions.

No hay mejor forma de alimentar y expandir la mente de forma regular que hacerse el hábito de leer buenos libros.7

There's no better way to inform and expand your mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature. That's another high leverage Quadrant II activity. You can get into the best minds that are now or that have ever been in the world. I highly recommend starting with a goal of a book a month, then a book every two weeks, then a book a week. "The person who doesn't read is no better off than the person who can't read.

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove."—Samuel Johnson Knowing that we are responsible—"response-able"—is fundamental to effectiveness and to every other habit of effectiveness we will discuss.

The Personality Ethic tells me I could take some kind of dramatic action—shake

Somos lo que hacemos día a día. De modo que la excelencia no es un acto, sino un hábito.

Question 1: What one thing could you do (something you aren't doing now) that, if you did it on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your personal life? Question 2: What one thing in your business or professional life would bring similar results? We'll come back to these answers later. But first, let's put Habit 3 in perspective.

Siembra un pensamiento, cosecha una acción; siembra una acción, cosecha un hábito. Siembra un hábito, cosecha un carácter; siembra un carácter, cosecha un destino

As Alfred North Whitehead once said, "The habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of wisdom."13

Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny," the maxim goes. Habits are powerful factors

If ten seconds can have that kind of impact on the way we see things, what about the conditioning of a lifetime?

the first and most basic habit of a highly effective person in any environment, the habit of proactivity.