What is a Growth Habit? 

Understanding how habits work can inform our development of what we could call growth habits. A growth habit is simply a positive habit you cultivate that helps leverage your efforts for personal growth. Consider this: what is one new habit you would like to develop that if done regularly, could make a tremendous difference in your life?

 For me, establishing a daily mindfulness practice has been a very important growth habit because it has helped me improve my social interactions, decrease anxiety, cultivate gratitude, and live with a greater sense of ease and confidence; that one habit makes many other things go well in my life. This concept is known as a keystone habit, which is a growth habit that leverages your efforts in a way that makes many other positive habits and outcomes more likely. What are some of your current growth habits? What new growth habits could put you on an even better trajectory toward a life of flourishing?

 Consider this analogy from James Allen (As a Man Thinketh):

“The human mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.”