# Chapter 182

Recently I was wenching a steel cable through a drain system, 70 feet out to the sewer main, and then another 20 feet to the manhole cover where I had my wench set up. 90 feet of steel cable and we were putting tremendous pressure on it. It stopped, stuck after about 7 feet! Zac my partner told me to pull harder, and I did. Soon Zac joined me at the manhole wench and pulled with me, until there was incredible force on the steel cable.

But it did not break. This is because of the multiple thin strands of wire that are bundled together forming this steel cable. This is what habits become when you practice them for a long time - a steel cable of intention and action pulling your through most difficult moments in life and giving you something to hold on to. You can think of each day that you practice your habits as another thin tiny wire added to the bundle of your steel cable. Your cable of character. Your cable of excellence. Your cable of development. Your cable of Protecting the Asset. Your cable of good health and strength development. Your cable of fiery intentions to change the world. Your cable of certainty that you can chip away at these problems and solve them. Your cable of spiritual disciplines and wisdom. There is so much more. Imagine!