You Will Become . . . . Your Habits

Lou, thanks for the post, it is important to keep up the good habits and work to stop the bad ones.

    Good post, Lou.   This concept is elaborated upon by Aesop, it is in the Bible. 

I love reading your quotes everyday. You always give me something to think about. 

Lou- I'll bet that athletes practice this!  We have to make a habit of doing what we need to do to achieve our goals. 

                        Thank you Lou Ludwig for my Ah ha moment. 

Habits can be changed, don't expect over night success.

Good morning Lou Ludwig ,

So glad to see this post featured in Kathy Streib 's "Ah-ha" moments for the week. Habits are important as they do determine how successful you are!

I am glad that I did not miss your post thanks to Kathy's summary!  Great stuff!

Good morning, Lou Ludwig I love this post....and I live by those words EVERYDAY..... I'm motivated to stay healthy and my eating properly and working out are habits....

So true! I get up every day and check a few things, AR, FB and email. It's a habit. 

I always enjoy Lou's motivational posts.

Very good point!  In my martial arts training and firearm training we always say and hear (I heard it at this morning's training class I took), muscle memory is key.  When the adrenaline pumps and the situation goes south you revert to the level of your training and muscle memory kicks in.  Example: when I earned my black belt part of the test was a free style "Randori" session with 10 attackers (yes, you read that right, 10 bad guys).  We had to defend against each attacker.  I can tell you from that experience, every plan I had about doing fancy moves went straight out the window.  I was doing some of the most basic techniques that first learned when I started 10 years earlier (and had been teaching and refreshing in over that time period).  Fancy newer stuff went out the window and I reverted to what my body instinctively did on it's own (since my brain had shut off at that point... especially after that punch I took to the face).

The mantra I learned in martial arts and that I use when I teach firearms: "Practice makes permanent, perfect practice makes perfect."

Lou Ludwig such a simple statement and yet, powerful!

Yes, we become what our habits are.

True, Lou.  If I only had good habits things would be much easier!

Lou Ludwig I am glad Kathy gave you a feature because I missed your post.

I like you statement: You will become . . . . Your habits . . . . and habits will determine the direction that your live moves in.

So true