The Labor of Building New Habits

I made my father switch from manual car to an automatic one.

It was a nightmare. His automobile consultant in chief [road-side mechanic] suggested him not to commit this blunder [because he had no understanding of automatic cars].

I am sure, we all have witnessed this.

We all continue buying wired appliances/gadgets which are now wirelessly available.

It’s because we have an itch attached to our old habits.

And it takes serious labor to get out of that itch.

Old habits die hard. That’s true for me, true for you, true for your customers, true for your boss, true for your subordinate, true for your spouse.

In fact, companies that lead are the ones who took the labor of changing habits — while others watched their customers from ‘hyper-active’ to ‘often’ to ‘rare’ to ‘never’.

Yes, you can live with old habits. But a prosperous future happens when you invest emotional labor in building new habits — for yourself, for your customers and for your network.