I can’t argue with a pretty strong case here, Charles.

A skill: a semi-automatic repeated process that moves you to something that you want.
A habit: a semi-automatic repeated process that moves you to something that you don’t want.

Do I need to get rid of my habits? Only if I have limited learning and storage capacity.

My Grandson has bought himself a new mobile phone. He chose it because it will double up as a music player. Only problem is that the internal storage only has space for three songs. (He used it as a reason to ask for an increase in his allowance – smart lad). It means if he downloads songs that he doesn’t really like he has to get rid of them before he can acquire the ones that he really wants.

We’re not made like that. We don’t have to throw out the old stuff in our heads before we get the new stuff that we do like. Someone obviously gave us a huge allowance when we were first made, huh?

So, what new stuff should we get? What new skills are worth developing?

Well, yes. I can’t move away from the idea that what we experience in our life pretty much wholly comes from what we think. Our repeated thinking forms our understanding, our understanding creates our beliefs, our beliefs are what motivates us, what motivates us leads us to action, and the actions we perform contribute to our experience.

A causality chain from thought to experience.

It doesn’t happen by itself though. We get to choose the thoughts that we entertain and hold in our mind. We get to decide what we understand and believe. We get to decide when we act and when we don’t. Heck we even get to decide whether we decide or not; whether we dither! And, when we get an unplanned outcome, we get to decide whether we will blame someone else (politicians and bankers are popular targets at the moment), or whether we take responsibility for our own life.

Success? It takes more than thinking of a pile of banknotes flavoured with happy thoughts. But that would be a start… After that, get all the help you can get. Remember that other saying?

If they’re not against you, they must be for you!

Bring on the Bull’s Eye Club, Charles!