Excellence is mundane. Athletes drill the same small habit day by day. Musicians learning a complicated piece will play one measure over and over until it is perfected. The same lies in building any habit. It requires mundane acts day by day in order to build it.
Habits: Who Can I Become?
Our lives are the result of many small habits we perform day after day, some good and some bad. Most of our habits have become so ingrained in who we are, we don’t even think about them anymore. All throughout our day, our productivity, health, and happiness (or lack thereof) are largely due to our habits. For most of us, the good habits outnumber the bad, which helps us to lead productive, satisfying lives. But what if we’ve gotten in a funk or are feeling overwhelmed or just don’t feel as happy as we want to? What if we want to be someone different, but we just can’t figure out how to do it? Day after day, we set goals and find ourselves never achieving them; our old habits are stifling whom we know we have the potential to become.