Good Habits Create Value
Most of us are aware that good habits create value and bad ones destroy it. Here is a very simple example: eating 5 to 10 servings of fruits and vegetables each day will help improve your health; on the other hand, smoking a pack of cigarettes a day will almost inevitably cause serious harm to your health.
A few years ago, my mother was working in a retirement home in my home town of Warwick, Québec, Canada. My father had an uncle who lived there until he was 102! When Pépère Michaud turned 100, my mom asked him what was his secret for having lived such a long and healthy life. Pépère Michaud replied that there was one thing that he had done all his life and another one that he had never done. Mom asked him what those things were and he answered that every day since he had become a young man, he had been taking one shot of Gin. He insisted that he always drank only one and that he consumed it slowly. Then he told my mom about the thing he never did: he never held a grudge against anyone in his life!
Simple, yet apparently, it worked for Pépère Michaud!
Do you have any such stories of good habits that can create value in some one's life?
Most of us are aware that good habits create value and bad ones destroy it. Here is a very simple example: eating 5 to 10 servings of fruits and vegetables each day will help improve your health; on the other hand, smoking a pack of cigarettes a day will almost inevitably cause serious harm to your health.
A few years ago, my mother was working in a retirement home in my home town of Warwick, Québec, Canada. My father had an uncle who lived there until he was 102! When Pépère Michaud turned 100, my mom asked him what was his secret for having lived such a long and healthy life. Pépère Michaud replied that there was one thing that he had done all his life and another one that he had never done. Mom asked him what those things were and he answered that every day since he had become a young man, he had been taking one shot of Gin. He insisted that he always drank only one and that he consumed it slowly. Then he told my mom about the thing he never did: he never held a grudge against anyone in his life!
Simple, yet apparently, it worked for Pépère Michaud!
Do you have any such stories of good habits that can create value in some one's life?
posted by GRK at 9:40 p.m.
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