Ode to Habit
I am your companion. I am your greatest helper or heaviest burden.
I will push you onward or drag you down to failure. I am completely at your command.
Half the things you do you might just as well turn over to me and I will do them—quickly and correctly.
I am easily managed—you must merely be firm with me. Show me exactly how you want something done and after a few lessons I will do it automatically.
I am the servant of all great people; and, alas, of all failures as well.
Those who are great, I have made great. Those who are failures, I have made failures.
I am not a machine, though I work with all the precision of a machine plus the intelligence of a person.
You may run me for profit or run me for
ruin—it makes no difference to me.
Take me, train me, be firm with me, and I will
place the world at your feet.
Be easy with me and I will destroy you.
Who am I? I am habit!
Thanks to an unknown author for these wise words about habit.
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