Have you ever wondered, how habits can affect our living? How successful or miserable it can make a person is highly discussed in present world. We never think how our daily routines can affect our success or failures. But the small habits that a person has can make him successful or a failure. Long term success is the ultimate result of the routines that a person follows throughout his life.
The tiny changes that we bring in our lives can give remarkable results in the long run. But the wrong habits are more easy to follow and are more attractive than the good ones. The good habits are hard to follow because the seem unattractive at first. We fall for the bad habits very easily by forgetting the long term results.
“Atomic habits” written by James Clear clearly states the benefits of taking atomic habits seriously. He puts efforts in making the reader understand the importance of adapting good habits and letting go of the bad ones. The methods for implementing habits to our lives is also clearly mentioned in the book. He explains the importance of ‘cue’ , ‘craving’ and ‘reward’. One first needs to understand the need for a habit. The he must try to make it attractive and implement it. The result of ones doing is the reward for him. The method to make habits attractive is an important factor. This can only create craving in ones mind towards habits.
Success people always follow tiny habits which may not mean anything to someone else. But these habits played important role in building their career. There exist a man who believes anything can be achieved through continuous practices. He didn’t believed that a person gets his abilities at the time of birth itself. To prove his theory, the man trained his three daughters to play chess. The girls were constantly exposed to atmospheres that had only relation to chess. His children started to play chess from younger age itself and spent most of their time playing chess. All three girls became renowned chess players and marked their name in the list of chess players.
We fall prey for habits due to the craving that it cause to us. A person becomes addicted to cigar because of the thought that it can make a person tension free. Even if a person tries to quit smoking, the surrounding keep on giving him cues to continue it. The only way to quit smoking is to make the ques unattractive. Remind the mind of the unattractive factors of smoking. This is the same case for any routine that we fallow in our life. On waking up remind the mind about the importance of doing exercise. The benefits that one can attain make every habit attractive. It is interesting to note that these tiny habits can give great success in the long run. The physical and mental well being a person is totally depended on the habits that he follow. Therefore, small changes in life can really mean a lot.