I am
Your constant companion.
I am your greatest helper or toughest obstacle.
I will push you onward or drag you down to failure.
I am completely at your command.
Half the things you do might just as well be turned over to me, and I will do them almost effortlessly and correctly.
I am easily managed.
You must merely be firm with me in the beginning, and consistent with me for a time.
Show me exactly how you want something done, and after a few lessons, I will take over and do it almost automatically.
I am the servant of all great people and alas, of all failures as well. Those great, I have made great. And those who fail, have I made failures.
I am not a machine, though I work with the ease of one, and have the intelligence of a person just like you.
You may use me for profit or for ruin, it makes no difference to me.
Take me, teach me, be firm with me, and I will place the best things in life at your disposal. Ignore me or treat me carelessly, and I will bring destruction to you.
Who am I?
I am HABIT.
Wow! We’ve all heard so much about HABITS and how it takes 21 days to change or create one, it can become something that we get so familiar hearing about it that we fail to recognize how truly POWERFUL our HABITS can be.
Go back and read it one more time and see how this clue fits into the success puzzle.
It’s a critical piece. Good habits and bad habits are cultivated or developed by each of us. Unique or common, productive or destructive, we each have the power to choose.
Which habit that you’ve developed are you most pleased about?
Which one causes you the greatest concern?
If there’s something about you, or about your life, that you’d like to change, then go to work on changing the habits that can bring them to pass.
It’s easy to do.
But it’s EASIER NOT to do.