Become A Slave To Good Habits
It’s no secret that slavery ended December 6, 1865, when Congress passed the 13th Amendment ending slavery in the US. But slavery is not dead.
Slavery, What Is It?
What is a slave anyway. According to encyclopedia Britannica, slavery is the condition in which one human being was owned by another.
What are characteristics of a slave?
Was property belonging to someone else, considered movable or immovable like real estate
Were objects of the law, but not its subject
Was not responsible for what he did
Brought about economic gain from ownership
Habits
Are you getting everything that you ever want in life, or are the results you receive less than what you expect. There is a reason no matter what you answer. The reason is Habits.
Your habits are responsible for the outcomes you are now experiencing. The power of habits to control one’s outcome in life was written about my Napoleon Hill in this book “Napolean Hill’s Keys to Success”.
He states, “If your life isn’t already what you want it to be, it is because you have drifted into your present circumstances by virtue of cosmic habitforce (the force of habits)…. If your habits are negative, their results will be negative. This is why you must take control of your habits through self-discipline.”
Who owns our habits? We do. Habits become a part of our nature. We completely own them as one owns a piece of property. They are a part of us. They can take up permanent residence, or be moved in and out of our lives whenever we choose.
Habits take residence in our lives to obey the thoughts that we desire to entertain. The rules we govern important in our livers are determined not by our habits, but our dominate thoughts the control them.
If you are not getting what we want in our lives, our habits are not responsible. We have the power to choose them, and set them in motion. Whenever we want to practice a certain habit, we give the command, and they obey.
Success, happiness, money, and anything you desire is a result of the habits you’ve chosen to employ. They work hard to bring all the rewards you want in life. When used effectively, the positive habits can bring us increased economic gains.
The Slaves in Our Life
The habits in our lives are our slaves. They work in us everyday, day-in and day-out. Our very natures are saturated by our habits. It sometimes appears as though our habits are in control our our lives, because no matter what happens our habits are working to bring us results.
If habits are that pervasive, who is really in control? Our thoughts are the command center of our lives to determine which habits we employ, and which ones we neglect.
Another quote from Nepolean Hill says, “…your thoughts are the only thing you can completely control, if you decide to do so. You must control your thoughts to control your habits”.
Thought Control
Complete control over our thoughts is the greatest weapon to change our outcomes. It starts in our minds. The thoughts we think matter. They are powerful. Think about it.
Thoughts create things that are either good or bad. Productive or non-productive. They create the outcomes we are experiencing in our lives this very moment.
How does thought create outcomes? It seems as though a single though pops into you head, and them it is gone. So how can one thought carry the power to create anything, good or bad?
One thought stored in our minds gains its power, when it that thought gets repeated. A thought comes into your minds, and disappears into the pool of millions of others that we think every day.
However, when the same though pops up again and again, that thought start to get a foothold. Repeat that thought over and over, and it starts to demand some of our attention.
Emotional Responses
Is this something we should react to or dismiss. The more the same thought keeps reoccurring in our minds, the more we contemplate action on that thought. Keep repeating that thought more and more, and it gets passed to our emotional temperature gage.
How do we feel about it? Our feelings begin to help determine what we should do.
The stronger we feel, the quicker we act. If we act once, we tend to act again when same thought occurs.
Repeat this process enough, and that actions turn into habits. Repeat those habits, and an outcome will appear. All because of one thought. A thought we can control.
Our Dominating Thoughts
The dominating thoughts we think produce some outcome. When those thoughts turn into habits, they go to work to produces whatever we desire. We have total control over our habits because we have total control of our thoughts.
Habits are slaves to our thoughts. They do whatever we command. They work hard every day bringing about the things we think about. One thing we can say for sure is that habits will produce.
Guaranteed.
So, I ask, what are your habits producing in your life? Are they bringing you all the money you need to get whatever you want whenever you want? Do you have the luxuries that you’ve always dreamed you’d have? Are you traveling the world, enjoying all the love of your family, and friends, or living in that dream home you’ve always wanted?
These principles are not new.
In his classic book, “Think and Grow Rich”, by Nepoleon Hill, he states, “TRULY, “thoughts are things,” and powerful things …”
Whatever it is you want in life can be yours. But it all starts with one thing: thoughts. The thoughts we hold in our minds produce. Positive thoughts produce positive things. Negative thoughts, also produce in kind.
Want to change your outcomes, change your thoughts.
Slave To Good Habits
Today slavery is not dead, if you decide to become a slave to good habits, positive habits. Feed your mind positive thoughts, turn those thoughts into habits, and watch them bring the results you desire.
The Super Achievers in life, produce extraordinary results because of the extraordinary thoughts they think. You have the power to completely control one thing; Your Thoughts. Think positive thoughts of a Super Achievement.
Be a part of something great.
Be everything that you know you can.