"Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best." - Marva Collins

HABITS...they can be "good" or they can be "bad"! That's a rather simplistic view of them. Really, all habits are GOOD because they are fulfilling some want/need/desire. The thing is: is the want/need/desire they are fulfilling...fulfilling you...really!?

Sleeping in may have become a HABIT. It may seem annoying and distracting and not fulfilling...but perhaps you are AVOIDING something else and sleeping-in takes you out of the position of having to DEAL with it. In that context, the habit of sleeping in is fulfilling a need/want: avoid stress...avoid issues...avoid problems. In that closed system, the habit is GOOD and EFFECTIVE. But in your over-all life, it may not be serving you. It might (however painful, ackward, difficult) be BETTER to confront that which you are avoiding head-on and thereby alleviate the need for the HABIT.

Other habits can be both good and effective and fulfil on what you are up to in life.

RUNNING daily or weekly could fulfil on your desire to stay fit and healthy. To run a marathon one day. To burn off some extra winter weight. To gain overall energy.

But funnily, those "GOOD" habits often seem like the hardest to adopt. It's been said that it takes 21-days of repetition and consistent doing/action to build a new habit. I can also say that it days one or two days of NOT doing it to totally destroy an effective and consciously-chosen habit. They are generally week mental constructs and need lots of support and nurturing.

There are lots of modalities out there proporting to instill and entrench new, good habits: NLP, hypnosis, coaching, affirmations, etc. I have tried them all and they can work and they can be effective....but at the end of the day, my experience has been that it is sheer DRIVE and INTENTION and COMMITMENT or DESIRE that will fuel a long-term GOOD habit!

SO...what do you want to accomplish? Be? Do? Have? That creating/manifesting GOOD habits (repetitious actions/behaviours) would serve and nurture? If you can learn to harness this innate human capacity, then you can go very far!!!!