Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're stalled, “standing still”.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

Get into the habit of laughing; too many of us have forgotten how to laugh. As people grow older, they sometimes forget that they ever laughed. It is a part of their childhood that they can no longer remember.

Mental pictures offer us an opportunity to practice new traits and attitudes, which otherwise we could not do. This is possible because again - your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an actual experience and one that is vividly imagined.

You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

Another cause of confusion, and the resulting feelings of nervousness, hurry, and anxiety, is the absurd habit of trying to do many things at one time.

Fully 95 percent of our behavior, feeling, and response is habitual.