Our Thoughts, Habits and Life

"You can't change your future but you can change your habits", says APJ Kalam. Actually, he wants to say that what our future will be like depends on our present habits. 

Our habits are reflections of our thoughts and as it is said, 'Our life is what our thoughts make it.' It is true that we usually do things the way we think. If our thoughts are positive, our habits will be good and conducive to a life with positive vibes. We don't have a direct control on our thoughts; they are controlled through our mind control. But, our habits can be directly controlled by us, though not very easily. We have to assess our achievements/accomplishments very honestly and look for the connection between them and our habits. If we feel that they are not enough, it will have to be taken for granted that we need to change our ways of doing things. Here, it won't be out of place to say that even a single bad habit can sometimes mar or overlap the gains of many good habits. I have met many persons who could have accomplished much more if they hadn't been in the grip of one or more bad habits. For example, there was a person who had been fired from six jobs just because of one bad habit of going to office often late. There is another person, known to me for more than four decades, who has had the bad habit of using tobacco too frequently viz eight to ten times a day and so inspite of being intelligent, honest, faithful and loyal, he is not appreciated because he fails to concentrate on his work and it often remains incomplete. Some people are in the habit of putting off the current work for future; the work keeps on piling up and some day the huge size of the piled up work becomes a source of embarrassment and worries to such people and they start feeling nervous or disheartened. There are some students who remain very casual throughout the year and when the examination is round the corner they are too worried and often get nervous. Out of helplessness, they resort to unfair means during the exams and risk getting expelled. 

So, we see that what we are getting now is the result of what we are actually giving by way of our habits. If we want our receiving end to change for the better, we'll have to change our ways i.e. habits, shan't we ?😊

Manoj

Posted by : Manoj Verma 1:02 AM

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