Pass out the Seven Steps to Good Habits activity sheet. Examples may include helping around the house, completing homework on time, or saving money from part-time work. Ask Explorers to describe some good habits they might like to adopt. Moving in the direction of developing good habits can be a matter of intentionality. We have to work hard to acquire a strong, good habit. Good habits, or virtues, on the other hand, are more difficult to come by.The road to poor habits is smooth and slippery.
Or we start watching more and more television, and soon we are hooked and have little time for school assignments. We slip into telling convenient lies, and before long we have the lying habit. If we go back to the history of the termBhabit, the original connotation of theterm refers tohexisthat Aristotle used in his writings on moral character. Poor habits, or vices, come easily to us. A person hasto pursue virtues in everyday life as such the notion of habit comes to the discourse of itsanalysis.Habits can be divided roughly into two types: good habits-such as always doing the thing you know to be right or regularly being considerate of others-and poor habits-such as cheating or putting off the things we have to do until the last minute.Make the following points through brief comments: Ask: If someone tells a lie, does that mean he or she is a liar?īased on the answers that are provided, lead a discussion to make the point that a single bad act does not define a person, but it may be the first step in a process that does define the person.
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