Our Excellence Is A Habit

One’s excellence isn’t an act, it’s a habit.

Every human thinks seeing another human,

 What’s in the person for me, and 

Can this person deliver?

 Nothing will proceed

Unless the prospect comes first,

 If and when one gets real service, 

The other person keeps relation with him, 

And, this is basic feel, felt, found, matching and 

Mirroring and positive affirmations,

And, so the fundamental ability is 

To relate, 

To define the tracts of a friend, 

To use language that is understood, 

Because it flows, and it is seamless. 

The factors of a relationship are always,

‘Care’, 

‘Belief’, 

‘Trust’, 

‘Respect’ and

 ‘Like’, and

Those are to be truly understood, 

Practised and 

Received in any age and this Perception is reality,

As No is a word which can be part of life, and

 No can lead to Yes, but May be might be an endless rope. 

Here, In my mind comes what Aristotle said,

 

“Virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions.”

And what Will Durant interpreted it: 

“We are what we repeatedly do…

 therefore excellence is not an act, but a habit.”,

Which is a powerful quote. 

To the Greeks, it meant excellence,

 It was the ultimate expression 

Of human greatness; 

Moral, 

Physical, and 

Spiritual and

We can find it what the Stoics were chasing, and

It’s what every person is chasing today. 

The important question is 

How do we get there?

Well answer is, 

It requires a certain philosophical approach,

 Because brilliance and inspiration and skill are not enough,

As excellence isn’t a thing one can do at one time,

 It’s a way of living,

 It’s foundational,

 It’s like an operating system, and

Such system is operated on habit,

Which Epictetus later said:

 “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.”

 I can exemplify,

When one wants

To be happy, 

To be successful or 

To be great, 

He or she is to develop the capability 

Developing by the day-to-day habits and

 It is clear and accurate adherence 

To the truth as a habit,

By which Impressive results are possible 

Or enormous changes are possible 

Without herculean effort or 

Magic formulas and only

With small adjustments, 

Good systems, 

The right processes. 

Every human is to remember,

There is nothing more powerful than a good habit, 

Nothing can hold one back except a bad habit. 

And, if one can cultivate good habits, 

He or she can survive—

Even thrive on—

What may lie ahead, and

 If he or she relapses and fall 

To the level of his or her worst habits, 

The hard times will only be harder. 

Such hard times may be;

The difficult time may be economic uncertainty or 

Personal adversity, 

Which can sink a person, 

And these are called hard times, 

One is to triumph over. 

If ones want to be or do something,

Epictetus said, make a habit of it, 

So let’s make a habit of arête.

It is correct that

To stick on good habits, 

It is not easy, 

But it is transformational. 

“As it is not one swallow or a fine day

 that makes a spring, so it is not one

 day or 

a short time 

that makes a man blessed and happy.”

As Aristotle said, And

 Also further said, 

“these virtues are formed in man by his doing the right actions.”

 To bring these two selections together, 

Durant elegantly clarified their communion 

By stating between them, 

“We are what we repeatedly do. 

Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”