Comments on: Manvotional: Habit

By: Eric suryan

Eric suryan — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:54:16 +0000

Good habits come parents and other family members; but we lose them in school and college. Even parents become unwelcome and interfering. This happens in India

By: John F.

John F. — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:21:10 +0000

I have just turned 60 and all that you write on this site i have heard years ago… why am i now appreciating each lesson you post?

By: Stephen B.

Stephen B. — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 18:21:15 +0000

Ben Franklin was so convinced that good habits were important that he focused on 12 virtues, one per month. He credits this discipline with making him healthy, wealthy and wise (he was a multimillionaire by the time he was 30) It seems every generation from Adam on has to learn the importance of developing character. The Bible says character starts with a thought that leads to an action and then to a habit. The battle ground of the mind is the one we HAVE to win.
As my pastor likes to say, “Not a sermon, just a thought).

By: Core

Core — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 21:33:25 +0000

Just want to say, what a great read this was.

The bit where it talked about the body recalling things, that you practiced was interesting.

I screwed myself up when I went to think about the # I was punching into the time clock the other day. I was like, I need to remember this number… my fingers knew the pattern, but my brain almost failed me on the #.. I went to think and just.. went blank. Rough situation.

By: Charles Martin

Charles Martin — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:38:58 +0000

In speaking of trying to identify which arm goes first into a coat, I had an incident happen that drove me to distraction for a few months. I was about to put on a tie for work when I somehow asked myself exactly what steps go into tying the tie. As it so happens, I was so confused by trying to do the act and pay attention at the same time that I could not succeed. Indeed, I could not tie a tie for about 3 months until I was able to just grab a tie and NOT think about how it goes on, but just tie it… and then I was back in business. So strong was that confusion that I have never allowed myself to ask that question again.

By: Steelo

Steelo — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 20:41:49 +0000

This is a great post. One of my most pondered topics. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People delves much deeper into the topic and although it capitalizes a “business perspective”, it is more fundamentally about family and individual commitment. I have taken several courses on this subject and plan to weave it into my high school curriculum.
Brett and Kate, I am now forced to join your wonderful website. Alas, i can no longer sit and not be accounted for among such people of character.
Thank you all.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:42:42 +0000

Reminds me of a maxim that my Grandfather and Father both repeated to me almost on a daily basis as I was growing up – “A job worth doing is worth doing right”

By: Braden

Braden — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:37:19 +0000

C.S. Lewis has a great quote about the power of habits:

“Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different than it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing into a heavenly creature or a hellish creature: either into a creature that is in harmony with God, and with other creatures, and with itself, or else into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God, and with its fellow creatures, and with itself.”

- Mere Christianity

I’m finding that the more I focus on acquiring good habits and getting rid of bad ones, rather than on holding to principles or having a strong willpower, the more I succeed in becoming a better man.

By: Carter

Carter — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:40:58 +0000

Brilliant!

By: JR

JR — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:19:23 +0000

I would like to add that this book, Ethics for Young People, and others from the “Manvotional” are available as free downloads from Barnes and Noble.