Changing your Habits: How badly do you want to?

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[Adrian Savage]

Most habits are not simply based on repetition. This would make us into creatures like Pavlov's Dogs who do things only because they've done them many times before.

Habits (at least the important ones) come ultimately from our core values: what we believe, deep down, to be right and true. We form habits around actions that we value or which have worked for us in the past to increase or improve something we value.

Self-destructive habits occur because in the situation there's always something we value more than the bad stuff -- maybe some sense of satisfaction or ability to feel hard done by.

Covey wrote about the habits of successful people. He should perhaps have written about their values.

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[Rosa]

Adrian, I am in complete agreement with you, thus my book, Managing with Aloha, built on the 19 universal -- and very personal -- values that I believe create better habits in people who aspire to be truly great managers. For a quick summary, you can look at this page:
http://www.sayleadershipcoaching.com/slc/2005/04/managing_with_a.html

Thank you so much for your comment here, and for how you took the time to build on it on your own blog this morning. I just spent some time there at your Coyote Within, and we seem to be pretty like-minded when it comes to values, and the greater need for our awareness of them as our positive catalysts for growth and change. Welcome to our Ho‘ohana Community!
Rosa