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I am your constant companion. I am your greatest helper or heaviest burden.

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I will push you onward or drag you down to failure.

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I am completely at your command.

5

Half the things you do might just as well be turned over to me

and I will be able to do them quickly and correctly.

6

I am easily managed —you must merely be firm with me.

7

Show me exactly how you want something done and after a few lessons

I will do it automatically.

8

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.

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I am not a machine, though I work with all the precision of a machine

plus the intelligence of a person.

10

You may run me for profit or run me for ruin – it makes no difference to me.

11

Take me, train me, be firm with me, and I will place the world at your feet.

12

Be easy with me and I will destroy you.

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Who am I?

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I am Habit!

15

“First we make our habits, then our habits make us.”

Charles C. Noble

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“Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits”

Robert Puller

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“Motivation is what gets you

started. Habit is what

keeps you going.”

Jim Rohn

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“We are what we repeatedly

do. Excellence, then, is not an

act, but a habit.”

Aristotle

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“Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you”

Elbert Hubbard

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“Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.” Proverb

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“Each year one vicious habit rooted out,

in time might make the worst man

good throughout.” Benjamin Franklin

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The End

“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.

Watch your words, for they become actions.

Watch your actions, for they become habits.

Watch your habits, for they become character.

Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”

With Metta,Bro. Oh Teik Bin