Millionaires Have Million ￡ Habits

Beginning in childhood, we all have developed a series of conditional responses that lead us to react automatically and unthinkingly in almost every situation which are referred to as habits whether good or bad.

Successful people simply have success habits and unsuccessful people do not.

Successful, happy, healthy, prosperous men and women easily, automatically, and consistently do and say the right things in the right way at the right time. As a result, they accomplish 10 and 20 times more than average people who have not yet learned these habits or practiced these behaviours often.

The good news is all habits are learned and are learned as the result of practice and repetition.

You can learn any habit you consider, either necessary or desirable. You can shape your personality and character in almost any way you decide.

You are the author of your own story and can write the script of your own life. If you are not happy with your current script, rip it up and rewrite it.

Just as your good habits are responsible for most of your success and happiness today, your bad habits are responsible for most of your problems and frustrations, but because bad habits are learned as well, they can be unlearned and replaced with good habits by the same process of practice and repetition.

George Washington, the first president of the United States was admired for the quality of his character, his graciousness of manner and his correctness of behaviour.

But that is not the way George Washington started off in life. He came from a middle-class family with few advantages, one day as a teenage boy, aspiring to succeed and prosper he came across a little book entitled “The Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation”, Washington copied these 110 rules into a personal notebook.

He carried it with him and reviewed them constantly throughout his life, practicing the rules of civility. He developed the habits of behaviour and manners by deliberately practicing and repeating the habits that he most desired.

George Washington was a self-made man because he learned the habits to become the kind of man he wanted to be.

The first millionaire during the same period, Benjamin Franklin, who began as an apprentice and went on to be the first self-made millionaire in the American colonies adopted a similar process of personal development.

As a young man, Benjamin Franklin felt that he was a little rough, ill-mannered and argumentative. He recognized that his attitudes and behaviours were creating animosity towards him from his associates and co-workers.

He resolved a change by rewriting the scripts of his own personality. He began by making up a list of the 12 virtuous virtues that he felt the ideal person would possess.

He then concentrated on the development of one virtual virtue each week, all week long as he went about his daily affairs. He would remind himself to practice that virtue, whether it was temperance tolerance or tranquillity on every occasion that it was called for and over time, as he developed these virtues. He made these habits a part of his character.

He would practice one virtue for two weeks, then three weeks, then one virtue per month. Over time, he became one of the most popular personalities and statesmen of the time. He became enormously influential, both in Paris as an ambassador from the United States during the revolutionary war and during the constitutional convention, when the constitution and the Bill of Rights for the United States was debated, negotiated and agreed upon. By working on himself to develop the habits of an excellent person Franklin, made himself into a person capable of shaping the course of history.

The fact is good habits are hard to form but easy to live with. Bad habits on the other hand are easy to form, but hard to live with.

In either case, you either develop good or bad habits as a result of your choices, decisions and behaviours.

Good time management for example is nothing more than a number of good habits performed regularly whereas poor time management is just some bad habits often repeated.

It’s a fact no skill is more closely correlated to success in life than managing your time well.

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