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Only 10% of People Practice These 5 Most Important Life Habits
90% of people can’t commit to them.
Isabel Allende is a literary legend. She starts a new book every January 8. She has done this since 1981. If her office needs painting, it waits. If someone wants a meeting, they have to reschedule. Allende clears her calendar, free from commitments, so she can write alone without the many distractions in life. A fixed start date acts as a strict boundary against procrastination. All her first-degree connections know she is completely unavailable starting January 8th. “You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not, Allende says.
Not many people can commit to this. The 10% or less of people do not have a secret magic of discipline. They just have a few protected habits that make the important work inevitable. Then they protect those habits like they are load-bearing pillars.
Almost no one will practice these habits.
But even one or two can change your life. I like what stoic philosopher Epictetus said in his book, Discourses.
“Every habit and capability is confirmed and grows in its corresponding actions, walking by walking, and running by running . . . therefore, if you want to do something make a habit of it, if you don’t want to do that…
