Old Habits Die Hard Flatcap Stracciatella

We are all creatures of habit and if you make good habits, good habits will make you. This wisdom has been around since ancient times. Aristotle once said, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” Whether they are a positive force in our lives or obstacles to the goals we want to achieve, habits become ingrained through repeated actions. Habits Die Hard, by John Murphy, unpacks 10 keys to help you replace your destructive habits with constructive habits.

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Some are bare-faced, smiling innocently for high school class graduation photos. Others appear with the instruments which would later serve as their meal tickets.

So. Old habits. Those suckers die hard, right? I’m talking Bruce-Willis-circa-1988-kinda die hard. You can try to shove them off a building or pepper them with gunfire or push them down an elevator shaft. REPEATEDLY. And still? No dice.

From an early age, your parents probably taught you that there were certain behaviors — like fidgeting in your seat, being obsessed with chocolate, or chewing on your fingernails as if they were Laffy Taffy — were bad habits that would ruin your…