Growing good habits
- By Korankye Arthur from Ghana
- 14 avr. 2015
- 2 min de lecture
We all have habits both good and bad. The good ones benefit us and add hope and joy to our lives, while the bad ones do nothing but steal our peace and joy and prevent our success. Maybe you have a thing or two you would like to change about yourself and no matter how hard you have tried, it seems impossible to stop or even slow down your unwanted habits.
I have from my own personal experience a bad habit: procrastination. It is very discouraging sometimes. But we are all able to have a fresh perception of how our everyday life can be filled with habits that makes us feel comfortable and set us free from discouragement. We can achieve that by growing good habit in our lives. For example, a farmer goes to bed every night trusting that if he plants corn, he will get corn. If he plants wheat, he will get wheat and if he doesn’t plant at all, he won’t get a crop. So he needs to keep planting because no matter how great last season harvest was, his future depends on his seeds producing again this season.
So how does this relate to us? Sometimes we get so busy that our days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months…and months turns into years. We go along without realizing that we either aren’t planting for the future or we’re planting things that won’t yield a good “crop” in our lives. Sometimes we can become discouraged by our current life situation without realizing we are simply reaping what we have sown. "as you sow, so shall you reap".
If this is the case for you, there is hope for change and for letting go of the old bad habits that have kept you from the life you have been wanting. Being successful in developing good habits is going to require a commitment on your part. A commitment to do whatever it takes to succeed and start planting right things in your life. You will find out that focusing on good habits not only establishes good behaviors in your life but it also helps you break bad habits in the process. That is the “make one, break one” principle.
Even if you have already felt like you fell, I want to encourage you to know that you can get back on your feet and start all over again. Don’t allow guilt and self-condemnation to keep you away from continuing to press on. It’s not always easy, but it’s possible.
GROW GOOD HABITS.
