As Aristotle reminded us, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit." Component to that plain fact is that when we depart from excelellent habits, compromise and corruption creep in. And we become them.
Perhaps the clearest illustration of these facts can be experienced when we fail to maintain excellent habits in training; be that strength training, endurance training, firearms training, or anything else. When we fail to maintain our strict habits of schedule and intensity, we lose an edge and some measure of competence. When we abandon our training habit for more than a week, the road back to where we left off is arduous and uncomfortable, and often twice as long as the hiatus. Compromise and corruption are sticky and cold and tenacious. Like a pot of water removed from the fire, it takes many times as much effort and energy to return the water to a boil as it does to maintain a simmer.
You are what you habitually do. Or fail to do. Keep the water hot, simmering or boiling, over the fire.
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