#5 of the 101 Ways to Love Your Job

The Power of Habits Maintained

You may not remember your initial struggle with a habit that isn't providing current-day benefits, but it's likely the struggle existed. Even if you can swear there was no effort, the negative side effects were likely there and ignored (How could a potato chip cause a zit? Can't be true! Let's break out the Lay's!)

Once your new habits start providing the good benefits, they will become even more ingrained. That will be all the motivation you will need to keep the new habit and lose the old one when temptation comes around.

Our lives are created from what we do every single day. These quotes about habits continue to underscore the importance of making sure your everyday actions are ones you want to keep.

"It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he accumulated during the first half." ~Fyodor Dostoevsky

"A nail is drive out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit." ~Desiderius Erasmus

"First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you." ~Dr. Rob Gilbert

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