Habits

HABITS We wake up in the morning, Our memory, collecting storing, The same data over, and over again, It becomes entrenched – a habit is due, What triggers habits, just a simple cue! We pass a highway that we know well And put our car into cruise mode, swell, This is routine, and we follow this road For there is a reward, We will shortly arrive at a place, To which we associate a particular face, And we store this for it feels good, We now have adopted a habit, That’s understood! A repetitive gym advert On TV, is yet another cue, We lace up our sneakers, lay out our Clothes, kiss husband goodbye So long Hugh! This has become routine, For in a week or two Our reward is due, We will feel bran new When we stand on our scale, Which now tells a new tale! A few more kilos you will Have shed, we love this new Routine, wow it is working And without even shirking, One gym lesson, we love the reward, We once hated gym, Now we never get bored, And besides feeling healthy We make our lives lengthy. But some habits beware, Cause strain, so refrain, For these habits try to engulf Us with guilt, But our willpower will Overpower guilt, if well built, Willpower is the conscious mind, And alerts us if we intend, To be unkind, So hurrah for the conscious, We heartily cheer, But the unconscious is What brought us here, To crossroads between the two, Everyone differs in their view. We must therefore First think everything through, For we adopt habits by Storing more information, And progressively throughout, Each generation, Embrace many a new habit, But sometimes Just do not grab it! Psychiatrists forge forward What a dilemma, To find answers, neither Altered or awkward! Wrote this poem after having read he Power of HABIT by Charles Duhigg.