Million Dollar Habits – Page 8
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 since 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 and the General in
command of the Revolutionary Army, is rightly called “The
Father of His
Country.” He was admired, if not worshiped, for the quality of his character, his
graciousness
of manner, and his correctness of behavior.
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 young man aspiring to
succeed
and prosper, he came across a little book entitled
“The Rules of Civility
and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation.”
As a teenage boy,
he copied
these 110 rules into a personal notebook. He carried it with him and reviewed them
constantly throughout his life.
By practicing the “Rules of Civility,” he developed the habits of behavior and
manners that led to him being considered “First in the hearts of his countrymen.”
By deliberately practicing and repeating the habits that he most desired to make a
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