Habits are the small decisions you make and actions you perform every day. According to researchers at Duke University, habits account for about 40 percent of our behaviors on any given day.
Your life today is essentially the sum of your habits. How
in shape or out of shape you are? A result of your habits. How happy or unhappy
you are? A result of your habits. How successful or unsuccessful you are? A result
of your habits.
What you repeatedly do (i.e. what you spend time thinking
about and doing each day) ultimately forms the person you are, the things you
believe, and the personality that you portray
Every habit you have — good or bad — follows the same 3–step
pattern: Reminder (the trigger that initiates the behavior), Routine (the
behavior itself; the action you take), and Reward (the benefit you gain from
doing the behavior).
If you’re having trouble changing your habits, the problem
isn’t you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and
again not because you don’t want to change, but because you have the wrong
system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the
level of your systems.
From a psychology standpoint "habit is defined as a more or less fixed way of thinking, willing,
or feeling acquired through previous repetition of a mental experience."
Habitual behavior often goes unnoticed in persons exhibiting it, because a
person does not need to engage in self-analysis when undertaking routine tasks.
Habits are sometimes compulsory. A daily experience study by habit researcher
Wendy Wood and her colleagues found that approximately 43% of daily behaviors
are performed out of habit. New behaviours can become automatic through the
process of habit formation. Old habits are hard to break and new habits are
hard to form because the behavioural patterns which humans repeat become
imprinted in neural pathways, but it is possible to form new habits through
repetition.
When behaviors are repeated in a consistent context, there
is an incremental increase in the link between the context and the action. This
increases the automaticity of the behavior in that context. Features of an
automatic behavior are all or some of: efficiency; lack of awareness;
unintentionality; and uncontrollability.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Stephen R. Covey’s book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective
People, continues to be a bestseller for the simple reason that it ignores
trends and pop psychology and focuses on timeless principles of fairness,
integrity, honesty, and human dignity.
Focus and act on what you can control and influence instead
of what you can’t.
Define clear measures of success and a plan to achieve them.
Prioritize and achieve your most important goals instead of
constantly reacting to urgencies.
Habit 4: Think Win-Win
Collaborate more effectively by building high-trust
relationships.
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood
Influence others by developing a deep understanding of their
needs and perspectives.
Develop innovative solutions that leverage differences and
satisfy all key stakeholders
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