The ENERGY used to get a shuttle away from our atmosphere uses the same amount of ENERGY as it uses to travel the next 500,000 or so miles
(source: Stephen Covey)
The pull of the earth's gravitational force, which needs to be escaped from is as powerful as a well formed habit or behaviour, good or bad.
In our practice we focus on the small habits, one at a time.
However we only call them small to make them feel manageable (pesky fitness tricksters!)
Each step, habit changed, habit broken is
HARD work and takes a lot of ENERGY:
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.
Bruce Barton
Small things, especially in the context of habit changes, are HUGE things.
Think back to the space shuttle, to change a habit we need to bear in mind that the ENERGY to initially change/ break/ start a habit is the same level as the shuttle escaping from the atmosphere.
Once free of the initial 'pull' of the habit or the resistance to change we then can set the
'autopilot' (if a shuttle has one of these of course?) with only a little course correction from the thrusters (willpower, motivation) to get us back on track....see below link for email on this and more pictures of space shuttles:
