Million Dollar Habits

All Habits Are Learned 
The good news about habits is that all habits are 
learned
, as the result of practice 
and repetition. You can learn any habit that you consider either necessary or 
desirable. By using your willpower and discipline, you can shape your personality 
and character in almost any way you desire. You can write the script of your own 
life, and if you are not happy with the current script, you can rip it up and write it 
again.

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Million Dollar Habits – Page 8 
Just as your 
good
habits are responsible for most of your success and happiness 
today, your 
bad
habits are responsible for most of your problems and frustrations. 
But since bad habits are learned as well, they can be 
unlearned
and replaced with 
good habits by the same process of practice and repetition. 
George Washington, the first President of the United States and the General in 
command of the Revolutionary Army, is rightly called “The Father of His 
Country.” He was admired, if not worshiped, for the quality of his character, his 
graciousness of manner, and his correctness of behavior. 
But that is not the way George Washington started off in life. He came from a 
middle class family, with few advantages. One day, as a young man aspiring to 
succeed and prosper, he came across a little book entitled 
“The Rules of Civility 
and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation.”
As a teenage boy, he copied 
these 110 rules into a personal notebook. He carried it with him and reviewed them 
constantly throughout his life. 
By practicing the “Rules of Civility,” he developed the habits of behavior and 
manners that led to him being considered “First in the hearts of his countrymen.” 
By deliberately practicing and repeating the habits that he most desired to make a