Sunday, July 31, 2011

Habits

In business world, we make plans and set goals. After all you 'set goals to get goals'. But in business as in life, things never happen according to plan. Missed targets lead to low morale and disappointment. We are told to learn from failures and move forward. But question is what to learn?

In one word: Habits.
Some behaviors and practices work, like laws of physics and others do not. Focus on the practices and behaviors that work and make them habits. Try learning good practices from others and make them habits. Habits lead to predictable results.

As Aristotle said: We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

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