More Than A Habit

Hello! Friends 😊 welcome back to my blog and today I will be talking about one of my good habits, as my participation in the #hiveghana engagement topic.

We all have habits, some activities we do regularly. We have to be mindful of those things we do as they all affect our lives in one way or another. Great habits produce great results and so do poor habits produce poor results

Like everyone else, I have many good ones that have shaped me in a good way. And today I'm very interested in sharing with us a habit I learned from my Mom while growing up.

When I get up in the morning before starting the day's activities, I will make my bed before anything else. Then proceed to face the tasks of the day.

If at the end of the day, I have a bad day, I will come back to my home and meet a well-made bed which I made early. And it will comfort me. Just imagine having a rough day and still having to deal with an unkempt bedroom.

I learned this habit from my mother while growing up, she would say if I can't do a simple thing like making my bed when I wake up in the morning I might as well not be able to do a lot of things I ought to do.

She taught me that for someone to be great at big tasks one must first learn to do little things such as effectively tending a bed at the right time.

Of course, I don't like making beds initially. If someone could even volunteer to help me every day with it I would gladly thank such an angel sent from above for his kindness. But I still choose to stick to this habit anyway, no matter my mood when I wake up in the morning, I will tend to my bed before anything else.

This is more than just a habit to me but a sort of a reminder that for me to achieve my goals in life I have to get used to doing things a lot of times even when I don't enjoy doing them but because they have to be done if I'm to achieve my goals.

With time, I started enjoying this habit my mother taught me. It helps shape my mindset in such a positive way. Even when laziness wants to set in, all I need to do is to quickly remind myself of my mother's words.

According to her, greatness starts from giving our best to the little things we do all the time and I have found out that she is right. It is from doing these little things efficiently that we get better at bigger tasks.

That will be all from me today, thank you very much for visiting my blog, and I wish you and your loved ones a blissful season.

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