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Seminar on
POWER OF HABITS
 HABITS – Definition
(Oxford dictionary)
• Settled or regular tendency
• Practice that is hard to give up
• Mental constitution or attitude
 HABITS - Quotes
Old habits die hard
HABITS – Quotes

Habits are like soft cozy beds – easy to

get in, difficult to get out.
 HABITS - Quotes
Cultivating a habit is like ploughing a
field.
 HABITS - Quotes

Habits start by being too weak to be

‘FELT’,
and end up becoming too strong to be
‘LEFT’.
 HABITS - Quotes
• Before you
realize that you
have got the
habit,…………..
The habit has got you
 HABITS - Causes
Previous Karma

Thought, desires
objects association

Action

Reaction Psychic
Physical
Temporary pleasure –
ultimately leads to misery
HABITS - Effects
*Makes one
Conditioned {Habits are
like mental Magnets
which draw you to do
certain things without
your knowledge or
consent} eg :-
i.Russian scientist & Dog
ii.Dining room clock & Picture
iii. Tape breaking down
iv. Stealing a Pencil &
Rubber
 HABITS - Effects
Affects one’s destiny:-
Sow a thought .. Reap an action
Sow an action ….. Reap a habit
Sow a habit …….Reap a character

Sow a character ………Reap a destiny

 HABITS - Effects
2} Loss
Others:- Of Good
1} Financial loans Health
 HABITS - EFFECTS
• OTHERS (contd.)

3)Social loss 4)Familial Loss 5)Leads

to crimes
 HABITS – why should I
change ?
Freedom
Stimulus of Response
choice
i. Genetic-hereditary
ii. Psychic-association/upbringing
iii.Environmental-everyone does it
 HABITS

…continued
•Lack of desire to change

•Lack of discipline to change

•Lack of belief that they can change

•Lack of awareness for the need to change

HABITS – can they really
be changed ?
Stages of developing a Habit
• unconscious incompetence
• conscious incompetence
• conscious competence
• unconscious competence
eg:- child riding a bicycle
 HABITS – how to
change ?
i. Sharpen the intelligence – the GIGO
principle.
e.g:- 1. Automobile & Driver
2. Garden & Gardener
ii. Substitution method – cultivating a
higher taste by connection to God
 HABITS – practical tips

i. Abstain from -
• alluring objects
• bad
association
ii. Sustain by –
Good association

iii.Knowledge
“We are what we repeatedly do, excellence is
not an act but a habit”
Aristotle