3 Healthy Habits
Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny.
~Gandhi
It would be right to posit that habits are rather subjective than many of us even dare acknowledge.
What matters to me only matters to me and may never make sense to anyone else, and what matters to others may never matter to me.
It goes to show why many of us struggle to adapt habits subjected to us by someone who in a way thinks they know us but all they can view is just the tip, they have no understanding of what are the drives, motivations, essentially what really matters....
Despite them being totally subjective, here is a list of Habits I think we can all collectively agree are healthy!
Maintaining relations!
It is not that I didn't know the value of people in my life but rather having people constantly in my life led me to always feeling the need to just be alone and be really myself.
Those were the days I maintained relations with those who don't really matter, and in fact neglected relations which matter the most.
Learning how to differentiate between those who matter and those who don't in my life has not only influenced the quality of the life I lead but has also greatly shifted the quality of the bonds with those who matter.
To me those who matter include; family members, friends who have been there for me through thick and thin....
Investing in oneself!
For the most part many navigate through life with little or no awareness of the fact that they are the product of what they let in their lives.
This is the reason why many are always complain of things going wrong, instead of looking on the causality to get a better understanding of how to fix everything, they rationalize it to be haters and the evil in the world causing their streak of bad luck.
Myriad of benefits arise from shifting the focus to oneself, not is a narcissistic way but in understanding that you too matter and your perspective matters too, after all no one has it all figured out, we are all along the journey just at different points and viewing the journey under different perspectives.
This is a gateway benefits such as self awareness, developing skills necessary to making a living or finding a way of sustaining one's needs, ultimately leading to an improved quality of the life we lead.
Of course the quality of one's life is subjected by the individuals innate tastes, preferences, personality and perspective.
But ultimately, an investment in the self, can never go wrong.....
Practicing humility and respect
Lastly, In a century obsessed with autonomy and the individual, it is easy to get caught up in the self bubble and actually be so self obsessed to the point of seeing others as less significant than who we see ourselves us.
The ego basically being the lead of us.
Looking down on others just goes to show how shallow our wisdom of what really matters really is, despite our exaggerated perception of ourselves, it shows a lack in the a deeper understanding of the ways of life.
No one knows it all.....quoting a 19th century British writer C. S. Lewis:
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
~Simone Weil
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