First the Vision, Then the Work

If life is growth, one has to grow if one is to live. One has to change if one is to grow. But what do we have to do to change? Habits. That's the ticket.

If your habits are counterproductive to reaching your goals then you have two choices: 1. Change the habits, or 2. change the goals. For if you do neither then you only live half-a-life. I am very strongly committed to my goals so the effort for today is how to change the habits.

What is a habit? Where did I get them? How do I change the ones I don't like? Habits are sub-conscious activities that occur before we even realize they are occurring. That means they are definitely not in our minds. We can eliminate our hearts as the culprit also because of the lack of passion, actually, the absence of passion involved. Their existence might be traced to the earliest moments of our life. Of the soul they must be.

This makes sense because habits consistently trump mindful activities if the passion to change is lacking. Based on human experience, it has been shown that it takes three weeks to replace one habit with another. The effort requires a heartfelt and mindful dedication to the alternative applied at the decisive moment that the habit arises.

If you are unsuccessful at changing the habits that interfere with attaining your goals that is tantamount to dismissing the goal. Because we have a desire but not the passion to enact that desire it is truly not a goal but merely a dream, an image, therefore, nothing. Meaning - we will only grow (live) when and if happenstance feels generous. But even if you win the lottery, can you truly say that you've attained a goal? That you have success? For this is not an accomplishment. No work was expended so no growth occurred.

To live we must grow. To grow we need a vision (goal) of what we are to become and then work (habits) to become that vision. This is the true formula for success.