The Ramblings of the Titanium Don
Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, and Other Matters
Even with the safety harness, you don’t want to lose your balance and fall. I recently did a “treetop” ropes course. Various obstacles to be crossed, thirty-five feet in the air, including rope bridges and tightropes and other challenging constructs. You cross the obstacles from platform to platform in a harness on a secure line, but you still don’t want to fall. It occurs to me, however, that this is an interesting metaphor of our lives. Even when we fall,
Some days you wake up, and you are ready to go. Some days you awaken, and you just don’t want to get out of bed. There are mornings where it is all about being energized. Happy, looking forward to the day, ready to face anything that comes your way. There ae mornings where it is all about the snooze button. Don’t want to get out of bed. Don’t want to go to work. Ready to face nothing and wishing to
Habits can be changed. What is a habit? A habit is a thing you do regularly, to the point where it is almost involuntary. You just do it, hardly thinking about it. It is your way. Some habits are neutral, like bathing and napping and using the blinker in your car to signal lane changes. Some are good, like holding doors for people, changing empty toilet paper rolls and picking up litter. Some are bad, like smoking or always interrupting
People are creatures of habit. The question we have to ask of ourselves in this matter is – are we creatures of good habits, or bad habits? To get to the root of this, it is important to ask – what ARE my habits? To identify habits, it is best to define just what a habit is. Dictionary.com defines habit thus: noun 1.an acquired behavior pattern regularly followed until it has become almost involuntary: the habit of looking both ways before crossing the street. 2.customary practice or use: Daily bathing is an American habit. 3.a particular practice, custom, or usage: the habit of shaking hands. 4.a dominant or regular disposition or tendency; prevailing character or quality: She has a habit of looking at the bright side of things. Acquired behavior, customary practice, prevailing quality. All of these combined describe a