Habits

Habits. What are they? Smoking? Drinking? Sugar? Sex? Gossip? Biting your nails? Leaving socks on the floor?

Whatever the habit, it's not the actual behavior that is the thing we are breaking when we "break a habit." It's the change of power. Instead of the habit running your life, you run the habit. If the habit is running you, your decisions and choices are all made in support of that habit, which is repetition on a past behavior. When you run the habit, the choice to do or not to is made in the present moment. 

We can fool ourselves into believing that we are choosing in the present moment, that's for sure. One way to test it, is to see how easy/difficult it is to give it up. The harder to give up, the more ingrained the habit. And the more reason to break it.

Why?  To bring us into the present moment. Even if only for the moment, because all those moments add up to a lot of momentum, and that momentum creates a new reality. One that is based more in your current reality than what worked/didn't work for us in the past.

So pick up those dirty socks! Or not. But really, who/what has more power? You or a sock?