Habits

As knowledge can be fairly reachable nowadays, due to the information overload we are faced with, its application is probably more difficult than ever. As an example we could take my clumsy approach to all sorts of relationships.. Despite of the fact that that is one of the areas of my great interest, and all of the knowledge I’ve gathered during the research of this phenomenon, I still have a habit of making such basic and stupid mistakes, that sometimes is quite hard and embarrassing to face the results of my doing. Even though I know very well, how you need to let the time to do its own job, I can fairly easy get distracted into my general attitude towards all other life challenges, where target is focused and than great deal of effort and persistence is invested into completion of the desired goal. This works great with other things, but is a disaster when dealing with relationships, as it gives an uncomfortable feeling of being obsessively harassed. Everything else than good behaviour than, so it needs to be eliminated as soon as possible, but as with every change in our behavioral patterns this too will take time and will be done gradually, so for now, we just say that nobody is perfect.

But as bad habits can be destructive, good ones can be beneficial to our activities. I still believe that much more than time, energy is the main constraint to all our goals, so it is the main subject that needs to be optimized, while we strive to higher performance and better life quality. This can be done through various things, like changing our diet, working out, getting enough sleep, lowering impact of different negative emotions, and many others, together with our positive habits. Because when you make a habit out of some repetitive task, the energy demand for its completion will fall drastically. As an example you can go back in your memory and remember how much more effort you needed to invest in your driving when you were just learning, towards today. Especially if you drive to work every day, pay attention on how much you remember about the surroundings you were driving through when you get to work or get home. Sadly, but most of us would have no idea about the trip details when asked. So much about safe driving.

So bad habits as well as good ones can be cultivated. Good ones usually a bit harder, but it’s well worth it. For example, I’ve set myself a habit of waking up early, do some physical exercise to wake myself up and be ready for that day’s challenges, and also a habit of spending an hour daily on learning things I think will be most beneficial for my near future. And as you can guess, waking up at 6 o’clock when you have no time constraints (like job etc.) can be pain in the ass, go running or doing some other physical exercise even bigger as also egoistically taking an hour daily for your personal “matters” which aren’t even a priority at the moment. Especially when we so hardly find time for anything other than our job, college or family. But think of the benefits of physically better prepared and more immune body or having a 365 hours long learning course every year and all the knowledge you would gather… Probably wouldn’t hurt you, would it? But it’s all up to you…

Tags: character, habits, optimization, performance, potential