Habit

I am your constant companion.

I am your greatest helper or heaviest burden.

I will push you onward or drag you down to failure.

I am completely at your command.

Half the things you do might just as well be turned over to me and I
will be able to do them quickly and correctly.

I am easily managed--you must merely be firm with me. Show me exactly
how you want something done and after a few lessons I will do it
automatically.

I am the servant of all great people and, alas, of all failures, as well.

Those who are great, I have made great.

Those who are failures, I have made failures.

I am not a machine, though I work with all the precision of a machine
plus the intelligence of a person. You may run me for profit or run me
for ruin -- if makes no difference to me.

Take me, train me, be firm with me, and I will place the world at your
feet. Be easy with me and I will destroy you.

Who am I?

I am HABIT born out of your innermost tendencies.

Author unknown

Note:

Habit is a behaviour pattern acquired by conscious and frequent
repetition of an action until it becomes involuntary and natural. The
source of all our actions is is our tendencies or vasanas. Desirable
Vasanas lead to desirable thoughts- then desirable actions- these
actions repeatedly performed becomes our habit. Bhagavan tells us to
sincerely surrender to him for the emergence of only good vasanas. Let
our Istadevatha bless us with the attitude of complete surrender! We
are incapable of changing our tendencies, but God who is beyond all
tendencies is there to help us!