September 14, 2010 (habitual acts)

-I'm your permanent companion.
-I can be your best assistant or your largest burden.
-I will drive you forward or force you down to failure.
-I'm entirely at your disposal.
-Half the things you do, you might just as well present to me.
-I will do them quickly and effortlessly.
-I'm easily managed.
-You must simply be firm with me.
-Show me how you want something done.
-After a few practice lessons I will do it automatically.
-I'm a servant to all great individuals and to all unsuccessful people as well.
-Those who become successful, I made successful.
-Those who become failures I made failures.
-I'm not a machine although I work with the precision of one.
-I work with the intelligence of a human.
-You can work me for profit or work me for ruin.
-It really makes no difference to me.
-By taking me, developing me and being firm with me.
-I will place the world at your doorstep.
-By taking me, training me and being loose with me.
-I will take you to the depths of destruction!
What am I? I am called...YOUR HABIT...!
- Author Unknown

"The strength of a man’s virtue
should not be measured
by his special exertions,
but by his habitual acts."
- Blaise Pascal