Million Dollar Habits

Permanent Fixtures of Your Mind 
As it happens, old habits do not die. They don’t disappear. When you stop 
practicing them, and instead discipline yourself to behave in a new way, they 
become weak and withdraw into your subconscious mind. Your new habits may 
override and replace the old habits, but you never eliminate them completely. They 
lurk below the surface, waiting to reemerge at a later time, when the stimulus that 
originally created them is repeated. 
For example, when you were young, you learned how to ride a bicycle. Eventually 
you began driving a car. Many years, even decades later, you can get onto a 
bicycle and within a few seconds, you can be riding with the same balance and 
skill that you had programmed into your subconscious mind as a child. 
Many people first learned how to drive a car with a standard transmission, a 
stick 
shift
. Today most cars have automatic transmissions. You may drive one for years. 
However, if you were required to drive a car with a stick shift, even after many 
years, you would slip into the old habit of shifting gears easily and naturally in a 
few seconds. The old habits never completely go away. 
Being and Becoming 
 

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Million Dollar Habits – Page 59 
You are unique in the entire world. There never has been, nor will there ever be, 
anyone just like you. And what makes you different and special is your mind. It is 
you ability to think, to decide and to act.
The sum total of your thinking and experiences in your past is contained in your 
actions of today, in your habitual ways of reacting and responding to other people. 
It is only your actions that tell who you are and what you have become. 
The good news is that you are not just a human being. You are a “human 
becomingness.” You are in a continual state of growth and evolution, shedding old 
ideas and habits and developing new ones. It doesn’t matter where you are coming 
from; all that really matters is where you are going. And where you are going is 
only limited by your own imagination.