Carpe diem

We are all creatures of habits. Habits shape our lives. I once read somewhere that it is needed 21 days for us to establish a habit. Although I do not believe in that, it is a fact that in order to establish a habit, I have to do it over and over and over... Again, again, and again... Until it becomes my "second nature". It takes some courage to make a new habit. I mean, it is an imperative for a person to "stay on the track", no matter what. We could be easily bored after 2 or 3 days of practicing our new habit, and I guess that's the most important point in making a new habit, a point in time where we get enough of it, or we feel we just cannot do it anymore, we don't care about it anymore. It's the point when we should remind ourselves that this is just temporary thing... What we are doing is trying to implement one thing into our life until suboconsious mind accepts it as part of our own existance. That's why we don't have to learn to drive every time we sit in a car. It's a habit... a learned habit, of course.

So, what new habit do I want to establish? Every day I would like to spend at least 1 hour of reading a book. Not that I don't read, I just would like it to make it a habit. Why? Becuase there're a lot of books I want to read. I mean it's so much easier to sit in front of TV and watch some silly show. Instead, why not spend an hour (or even less) reading a book I've always wanted to read? Speaking of reading, are we aware of how much we read from computer screens? and speaking of TV, I guess millions of people around the world established a habit (a bad one) of just sitting in front of the TV doing nothing. Turn the damn thing OFF :-)

I guess it's all about being persistent and sticking to a new habit for some time, until we forget about the habit because it became part of our every day lives.