How to Eliminate Bad Habits

FRIDAY Book Study: we will study this one power packed book throughout the year, each week diving into business, mindset, and personal development principles. Og Mandino’s University of Success: The Greatest Self-Help Author in the World Presents the Ultimate Success Book.

Please make sure you read and study this chapter, there are soooo many nuggets in this lesson. CLICK HERE for the book in pdf format.

LISTEN TO LESSON 20 (SEMESTER FOUR)

TODAY’S THOUGHT

YOUR NET WORTH TO THE WORLD IS USUALLY DETERMINED BY WHAT REMAINS AFTER YOUR BAD HABITS ARE SUBTRACTED FROM YOUR GOOD ONES.

TODAY’S TAKEAWAYS

• Rare is the wise man who has not had a definite opinion about habits.
• John Dryden said, ‘We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.”
• Horace Mann wrote, “Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it”
• Samuel Johnson exclaimed, ”The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”
• THE BOLD AND ARDUOUS PROJECT OF ARRIVING AT MORAL PERFECTION
• I entered upon the execution of this plan for self-examination and continued it with occasional intermissions for some time. I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had imagined; but I had the satisfaction of seeing them ‘diminish.

These names of virtues with their precepts were:

1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
3. ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
4. RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
5. FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; that is, waste nothing.
6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
7. SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
8. JUSTICE. Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
9. MODERATION. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
10. CLEANLINESS. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.
11. TRANQUILITY. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
12. CHASTITY. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another’s peace or reputation.
13.  HUMILITY. Imitate Jesus and Socrates

TODAY’S INSTRUCTOR:
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Benjamin Franklin, (January 17, 1706- April 17, 1790). If this classroom is packed beyond its capacity it is because you have” all gathered here for the same purpose-to hear America’s first authentic genius, Benjamin Franklin, describe to you in his own characteristic style exactly how he broke the chains of his own bad habits, habits that would have prevented him from ever reaching the stature that he finally attained.

Please go to this link for a complete biography.

TO GET THE MOST OUT OF THIS BOOK STUDY

• I may read and record a portion of the chapter or just pick out a few nuggets each week. So, to really obtain the full benefit and get the most out of this book you may want to purchase your own copy, here is the link to Amazon
• Highlight, underline, star, mark up this book however you want with things that resonate with you.
• Take this study slowly and with intention, that’s why we are doing only ONE chapter each week, so we can ponder, think and study on this content until the next chapter.
• Do the chapters in order (all of these suggestions are from the author)