Million Dollar Habits

Million Dollar Habits – Page 10 
You Are in Complete Control 
The fact is that good habits are hard to form, but 
easy
to live with. Bad habits, on 
the other hand, are easy to form, but 
hard
to live with. In either case, you develop 
either good or bad habits as the result of your choices, decisions and behaviors.
Horace Mann said, 
“Habits are like a cable. We weave a strand of it every day and 
soon it cannot be broken.” 
One of your great goals in life should be to develop the habits that lead to health, 
happiness and true prosperity. Your aim should be to develop the habits of 
character that enable you to be the very best person that you can imagine yourself 
becoming. The high purpose of your life should be to ingrain within yourself the 
habits that enable you to fulfill your full potential. 
In the pages ahead, you will learn how your habit patterns are developed, and how 
you can transform them in a positive way. You will learn how to become the kind 
of person who inevitably and relentlessly, like the waves of the ocean, moves 
onward and upward toward the accomplishment of every goal that you can set for 
yourself.
“We first make out habits, and then our habits make us.”
(John Dryden)

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Million Dollar Habits – Page 11 
Chapter One 
 
Where Your Habits Come From 
 
“Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steadily gains in 
strength. At first it may be as a spider’s web, easily broken through, but if not 
resisted, it soon binds us with chains of steel.”
(Tryon Edwards) 
You are extraordinary! You came into this world with more talents and abilities 
than you could ever use. You could not exhaust your full potential if you lived 100 
lifetimes.
Your amazing brain has 20 billion cells, each of which is connected to as many as 
20 thousand other cells. The possible combinations and permutations of ideas, 
thoughts and insights that you can generate are equivalent to the number one 
followed by eight pages of zeros. According to brain expert Tony Buzan, this 
number is greater than all the molecules in the known universe. Whatever you have 
accomplished in life to this date is only a small fraction of what you are truly 
capable of achieving. 
The psychologist, Abraham Maslow, once wrote that, 
“The story of the human 
race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.”
The average person 
settles for far less than he or she is truly capable of achieving. Compared with what 
you could be, everything you have accomplished so far is only a small part of what 
is truly possible for you.

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