A+B->C; Revise your habits if you desire for outstanding results

Friends!! We often revise our habits and at times, we try to incorporate new habits. This will happen, by and large, when a person reads an inspiring article or watches a motivating speech etc. The challenge to a person at this junction is to continue the new habit for a longer period. In this blog, we will see how to create meaningful new habits and how to leave the disparaging old habits forever.

The results (good/bad) of any individual are the products of his/her own actions. Actions are indeed triggered by the thoughts of the person. Most of us want different & outstanding results but a very few know how to achieve these results. Existing results cannot be changed without changing the existing thoughts and actions. Everyone knows about the outcome of hydrogen when combined with oxygen, WATER (2H2 +O2-> 2H2O). Here, we will laugh if someone expects other than water during normal conditions. Similar is the case with humans => you cannot change the fruit without changing the root. If we need different results, we need to change our existing thoughts and actions. Great thoughts and great actions will deliver great results. Our daily actions are nothing but our HABITS. Good habits will promise to give good personality as much as to the hilt while bad habits can aggravate the personality of a person.

The most important point to keep in mind is to revise all our existing habits while making a new habit. One great habit cannot survive for a long duration if surrounded by ten rotten habits. Gandhiji said "One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole". Therefore, coordination and synchronization is very much required among all our habits, after all, they are our own habits. Make sure that the new habit leads to your goal. Choose your own habits and never make a facsimile of others habits. Do not get badgered by others in choosing a new habit. (Old habits and bad habits are two different things. Old habits can be good and new habits can be bad. We need conscience to decide what is good/bad).

Now that we have finalized our new habits, let us see how to implement these habits for longer durations. Many people will give up within one month or one week or one day or sometimes even one hour. I will illustrate with an experiment which would help us to understand two things: why we give up new habits easily and why it is tough to get rid of old habits. Imagine yourself throwing a ball up into the air. What are the possibilities? I will give two options and you pick the correct answer. The options are:

1. Ball will fall down after sometime.
2. Ball will remain in the air or it will continue to go up.
Your answer is correct if you have picked option 1. No one argues on this, including a two year old kid. The ball will fall down due to the earth’s gravitational pull. Given a chance to myself, I will say option 2 is correct but with different justification. For option 2 to be correct, one must throw the ball with a force to overcome the gravitational pull. We lived with old habits for quite some time and so the pulling force from old habits will be there when you try to leave them, quite similar to the gravitational pull when a ball tries to leave the earth. The force required to overcome the pull of old habits will vary from person to person and depends on how deeply the person is connected to the habit. Also, one must estimate the cost of violation for each new habit which would remind you the necessity of implementing the new habit. Sometimes sacrifices are essential and it may be painful initially but definitely helpful on the long run.

Rome was not built in one day; you should not expect to see quantum changes in one day or one hour. A child can walk only after crawling phase and one will definitely see the imminent changes over a period of time. Finally, with the symbiosis of noble habits, the fruits will reach you in torrents.