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Thursday Aug. 10, 2017


Just because something is a truth doesn’t make it a habit.

And identifying something as a habit is no judgment of inherent goodness or badness – just recognizing things for what they are.

And for what they aren’t.

I’m no trained analyst or professional advisor on human issues, just an observer of people I know, people I meet, people on the street – mostly observing me.

Hard to miss me, I’m everywhere I go.

Everyone has habits we’d like to get into.

Or out of.

I’m examining ‘habits I used to have’.

Not just bad ones I’ve shed, but good practices I used to follow. My frequent answer, “I don’t know why I don’t do that anymore”.

So much to do every day, who has time for habits?

Most of life, our daily life, is a habit – eating habits, exercise habits, hobby habits, sleeping habits, work habits – every routine common thing and how we do it, habit.

Writing this column, habit.

Something I’d never done. But then I started.

Now, 5,257 consecutive mornings.

Keeping track has become a habit.

So has the writing …

We don’t need reminder lists, phone pings or screen pop-ups. No to-do list required.

They just show up. Every day, week in/out – ensuring we’re always doing what we’ve always done. In that mix, habits I’ve determined to break. Modify. Retrofit. Reinvent. You get the picture …

What’s your truth?

What are your habits?

And, are they good for you?

Further, why do we have our habits?

Just habit, just survival?

Habit isn’t about change (maybe new ones could be) – because habit seems opposite of change, transformation or anything new.

Shedding habits.

Holding onto habits.

Best we do a healthy measure of each.

Do what feels good, do what works – stop doing what doesn’t feel good, stop doing what isn’t working.

And recognizing, what could never work.

We should all come from the womb with a warning label on our diaper – like the kind factories put on consumer products ~ WARNING: contains new material only; could become habit forming

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