Good Habits are Hard to Form But Easy To Live With. Bad Habits Are Easy to Form But Hard to Live With. - Brian Tracy

We sometimes forget the mental pain we have to go through when we first establish a new habit. They say it takes 21 days to form a new habit. The easiest thing to do is to go back to our old way of doing things after a few days because that is what is comfortable. But we must stick it out past the initial first few days or first week of uncomfortableness.

I actually have another quote that goes along with the topic of habits. It's from Og Mandino's book: The Greatest Salesman in the World. "I will form good habits and make them my slave." These two quotes we should remember at all times because I believe that successful living is just a matter of choosing ways of living/new habits of behavior and sticking to them no matter what. After we decide what habit we would like to establish, we must then stick to it like our lives depend on it. If we want it badly enough, the habit will stick and we will be more confident and happy. Our serenity level will be higher.

I'm actually going through this right now with my new habit of reading/studying. I love to read and learn, and I have so many good educational/inspirational/self help books I want to read. But sometimes simply sitting down and reading can be challenging because I can get easily distracted. The new habit I am establishing for myself is one hour of reading/studying per day first thing in the morning.