Developing Good Habits For Your Life

Competition is an inseparable part of business - to succeed, businesses have to compete with each other and only the best can survive. However, being the best is not only required in business, we know the term "survival of the fittest" from the early days. Competition is part of our daily activities, not necessarily for survival, in the pursuit of a rewarding and fulfilling life. The best competition is when we compete against ourselves, we strive for a better life and giving our best is the way we appreciate life.

Giving the best means giving the best efforts to the best of our abilities. Yet, efforts may require a lot of struggles and struggles can be quite painful for some people. Despite their good intention to do the best for their lives, people tend to shy away from pain. Can we be the best without having to struggle? Can we reach victory without sacrifice? It is part of human nature to want it easy. Butt, it is only fair to expect something if we are willing to pay for the price. There is no such thing as a free lunch. How can we make it easy, then?

Luckily, there is a mechanism in what we call "practice makes perfect." In the beginning, it is a struggle but as we do it more frequently, it is getting easier and easier until we gain a full mastery and everything becomes natural. This pattern applies to all aspects in our lives - whatever we do frequently will be a natural part of our daily lives, we'' do it even when we don't think about it. We call it a habit. Therefore, if we want competition to be easy, make it a habit. When we are used to giving our best efforts, we'll do it naturally, we are not even aware about it. When continued practices become a habit, we know for sure that it will be easy. It is only hard in the beginning, we just need to do it more often.

There is a downside of habit though. Once, we acquire it, it is really hard to dismiss. Therefore, be careful with our habits, we have to make sure that we develop only good habits. A bad habit can generate a life of it's own, we'll do it against our own will, for instance: smoking, gambling, drugs, etc. An addiction can be self destructive. But, just imagine that we are addicted to working hard, to giving the best, to being kind to people, to being generous. Life can be really beautiful and it is possible, isn't it?

After all, it is the action that matters. What we do create impacts, whether we are aware of it or not, whether we like it or not. Make sure that we know what we do, that we know our habits. Make sure that we only develop good habits.


Rini Palupi Radikun
Developing Good Habits For Your Life
RiniRdk@yahoo.com