Each of us, are creatures of habit; be they good habits or bad, of which, we typically so find, that we are a mixture of both. The thing about habits is that surprisingly a fair amount of people don’t ever bother to look closely at their habits and thereby to examine them as to whether or not, a particular habit is beneficial or detrimental to their being; and then once determining so, doing something of meaning to correct such that needs to be corrected. Those others, though, that do look at their habits, recognize that it is sensible to want to keep those habits which are good and beneficial, and to at a minimum, see what can be done to at least ameliorate those habits which are destructive and inimical to one’s good character.
A lot of the trouble that besets us is really of our own making; in which, the mistakes that we make through bad judgment or bad habits has put us into some uncomfortable or trying circumstances, that simply would not exist, if we had exhibited better control and better judgment over those things that are under our volition. This thus signifies that when there are those times when we wake up with regret, or feel regret when we do something that we wish that we had not done; that it so behooves us to right what needs to be righted, in which, a lot of the time, the guilty party is that bad habit which we have let take control of our free will, and thereby we need to exert our dominion, of.
When it comes to habits, the longer a habit has been with us, the harder it typically is to break free from that habit; which signifies that just as “Rome was not built in one day,” that to thus break a particularly noisome habit is something that is going to take a whole lot of effort, concentration, and persistence; in addition to the fact that this is probably going to be a habit that will still continue to trip us up, from time-to-time, as well. This means, that we have to be on-guard to do our best to overcome such, and in recognition that it is often easier to fight a battle when we have like-minded companions of the same mindset with us, it is therefore important then to reduce our time considerably with those people that encourage us in our bad habits or are the instigators of such; and spend more time instead with those that are more disciplined, positive, compassionate, empathetic, and virtuous, instead.
For those that are confused or on the fence about a particular habit, it is vital to keep asking the question, as to “what do I get out of it?” The point of our asking that question about a habit, is for us, to sit down and to provide to ourself an honest answer to such. For those that have bad habits, a typical answer might be that the reason for that habit is to escape, for a time, from some trouble or some circumstance, but since this escape, by definition, can only last a finite amount of time, then like a dog returning to its own vomit, we so return to that same bad habit, again and again, which means that the trouble so bothering us has not been resolved; and it is that trouble that needs to be resolved, which when done so, thereby opens up the pathway to best correct that bad habit.