All About Habits

Well hey there, welcome back to another edition of The Culture Junky LinkedIn Exclusive blog series. I hope you’re having a great week so far as we push onwards toward the weekend. Even though it’s cold out, I know I have plenty of those ice cold Coors cans in the fridge waiting for me when I get back home. But as I find myself on LinkedIn today I have some weekend thoughts I wanted to share.

I wanted to talk about the power of habit. Because habits are incredibly important, and whether we realize it or not, habits are exactly what shape our future.?

The quote I saw that got me thinking about this was “We don’t decide our future. We decide our habits, and our habits decide our future.”

It couldn’t be more true. Not to sound like an action adventure movie, but our habits are essentially shaping our destiny. Think about it like this, if I want to be really fit, like Dwayne The Rock Johnson levels of fit, then if I want to have any hope of making that goal a reality, then I have to make sure my habits are in alignment with that goal. If they aren’t then chances are I probably won’t end up making it happen.

Let me throw another example at you, one you may already be familiar with depending on how long you’ve been following my weekly Culture Junky content.?

If your goal is to deliver a best-in-class experience as part of your organizational culture, then your daily habits need to be in alignment with that goal if you want to have any chance of making it a reality.?

In other words, if your intention is to have a best in class culture, then your have to make sure that your actions and habits are moving you closer to that goal. Otherwise, your intentions are pretty meaningless.?

So before you make the transition into next week, take some time tonight, or early Monday morning, and maybe put some time and energy into thinking about how your habits are guiding you on your destiny.?