Easy to Remember Quote Provides Key to Building Good Habits
We all want to develop the habit of building good habits. However, because it’s so much easier to develop bad habits we spend most of our time breaking bad habits instead of building good habits.
This is normal, if not natural. In the moment, dessert will always taste better than vegetables and relaxing will always feel better than working hard. Feeling bad and allowing negative self-talk get the best of you because your instincts pull you towards bad habits instead of good habits is a waste of time.
The truth is there is only one path to defeat the instinct of doing what feels good to you over what is good for you. This path is summed up nicely with an easy to remember quote attributed to Saint Francis Assisi:
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.