YOU ARE WHAT YOU REPEATEDLY DO

The famous Aristotle once said "We are what we repeatedly do". I used to refer this famous quote in almost all of my presentations. I firmly believe that is not just your physical personality that is important, but it is also the inner personality that implies who you are. I remember reading somewhere, "You decide your habits, and Habits will decide you future".

Once a king was standing in the balcony of his palace from where he spotted a young women begging from door to door for food. He was angry that she was begging at this young age and ordered the guards to bring her to him. When she was summoned at the court, the king was astonished by her beauty and his anger turned into love and asked her to marry him. She immediately accepted and the wedding was a splendid affair.

The usual story would end here with "they lived happily ever after". But in this story begins here.

The queen believed that she had the luck of her lifetime to have married the king of the country. As a queen, she could eat anything in the world without begging. She feasted everyday with the best delicacies in the country. But there seemed to be some problem that the queen started losing her weight. The king was baffled when the queen lost her weight and become skin and bone. He brought in the best of doctors from the country to find out the problem, but all in vain.

One day the queen said to the king, "Give me one month time". She continued "During this time, I will stay inside a room and no one including you should see me. My food must be given to be though the window". The king agreed, and in a months’ time, the queen become hale and healthy as she was before.

The surprised king was curious to find out how this happened. That night, he hid himself under the bed and waited. As soon as the food was given to the queen, she split the food in to four equal halves and kept them in the four corners of the room. The she visited each corner, and cried out begging for food and then ate the food.

King was speechless on seeing this. However they both lived happily ever after (Of course, the queen continued to beg for food in her palace bedroom).

Your habit decides who you are and its sheer effect decides how your future will be. It is up to you to decide your habits and the duration you want to stick to it.