What your habits say about you

I read an incredible piece from a sales training site, of all places, regarding habits.

Leaders Club had this to say: Everything Duplicates! In a 1999 study by Brandeis University, psychologists observed that bad habits can spread through an office like a contagious disease. Employees tend to mirror the bad behaviors of their co-workers; ie. low morale, poor work habits, and even theft from the employer. The phenomena of "habit spread" plays out with lightning speed. Everywhere around you are average people. They entice you into being more like them by offering their acceptance and by leading you to believe that everyone else is already more like them than like you.

YIKES! But what is even funnier are the stories my teen girls tell me about working with 2-4 year olds. Same story! Habit spread is happening at that stage too! No wonder starting a new habit is like going against the grain. Leaders Club added this last line to their article: Don't sacrifice your goals and unique ideas for the sake of being average. If you want to be better than average, you must do what average people are not willing to do.

Lately, Ive been searching out inspiring quotes. Now, I am seeing them all over the place. Other people are posting them too. Is this a positive habit taken over with habit spread? I hope so. I don't want to be average, and I don't want to sacrifice any of my goals to be average. The fight against average is worth the tension and struggle.