You can always pick up a good habit by osmosis or because it suddenly makes good sense to take up some thing you learn from a parent, friend or lover you have grown to admire.
Once I feel positive emotional resonance with someone’s pet peeve or admirable trait, it is easier to incorporate it into my daily or weekly repertoire of embraced habits. It may be as simple as an extra spoonful of sugar or as premeditated as an impromptu detour down an unfamiliar alley. I find that it then becomes my very own chosen path to go about doing some thing in a particular way. My very own personal touch included recently adopting Turkish coffee into my morning enrichment. Somebody else decided to help themselves to a serving of key lime pie once a week after frequenting the Sunshine State while visiting her boyfriend in the Florida Keys a few times too many!
When does a learned new habit become part of your cultural identity? It is often something we admire about how someone chooses to operate in relationship-building. Good habits stay and become a regimen we are proud to call our very own. Change allows us to shed what does not work any longer. The trigger may be as simple as a right of passage or as convoluted as a decision that stems from a mid-life crisis. In the end, it’s what inspires us to try something new that propels us forward. Bad habits die hard but the best way to replace them is to adopt a new habit that is consequential to developing a taste bud for a new friend.
If we see someone we like use a certain spice in a dish or go for tabasco instead of plain ketchup, it might entice us to make that same choice if we admire that person. After all, nobody adopts German or brown mustard if you have only come across plain French’s Classic Yellow Mustard. Admittedly, it takes a tad more sophistication to venture further and ask for Grey Poupon! Recently, I started venturing for a glass of water to clean my palate right before my doppio espresso macchiato. It makes a whole lot of sense. And I was not merely trying to be pretentious. If you admire Italian culture or cuisine, there are many areas you might gravitate to when it comes to delicate taste.
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You always grow your cultural repertoire when you enrich your life with a new way of doing things, or speaking in a new tongue or budding taste. Enrichment is what we are after when ever we strive to improve ourselves. After all, the alternative often proves to be dull and repetitive in life. You may find yourself waking up on the same side of the bed, if you’ve never switched pillows. We are all creatures of habit. After five times of doing something a certain way, it becomes a habit that we profess to be our own. The next time you have an Italian style lunch, have a glass of red to go along with it. It will go a long ways to allow you to see the world with a fresh new lens, and open up new possibilities.
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