Success And The Habitual Mind
Success often means being able to deal efficiently and appropriately with the inevitable unexpected challenges that come our way. However, this becomes more difficult as life becomes more complicated. Fortunately we have a capability that allows us to turn over many of the redundant tasks in our lives to an auto pilot feature of our consciousness. But while this is a powerful capability, like so many other powerful tools we have available to us, this one can work against us if we don’t maintain a firm grip on it. This is our ability to install certain thinking and behavior patterns as unconscious habits. The problem is that not all of our current habitual thinking and behavior patterns are positive and constructive ones and we need to do a little mental maintenance from time to time.
