Get In The Habit

Habit:  An action performed repeatedly and automatically, usually without awareness.

"The intellectual idea of abstinence is not of itself sufficient.  It takes sustained effort to unite the intellectual concept with that consistent form of action which is an expression of automatic attitude rather than a monument to will power.

Whatever may be the theoretical desire and intentions, the old habits do not die as quickly or as easily as one might wish, nor are they dead and buried when one wished them to be so.

The habits of year's standing are not going to quickly pass out of the picture no matter how diligent a man may be in his application of the work.  He has to keep directing his mental processes in a formal and definitive manner for at least a year."