Excellence is a habit

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle

I saw this quote today and I love it. I think I do this with myself a lot. Even when I am depressed and in a shit mood I smile, laugh, try to trick myself into thinking that I am not depressed... If I act not depressed enough than I will not be depressed...
When I am dealing with my friends I do the same... like when certain guy pisses me off because he is being mean... I keep acting like I'm not mad, or that what happened is ok... When I do that I am able to not create more problems with him.. not argue when he is having a shit week.. and more often than not he feels bad about it. He might even feel worse because he feels like I am nice and he has no justifiable reason to be an ass.... (And I say ass out of lack of appropriate vocabulary ;o))
When dealing with my friends I used to get annoyed at trivial things and throw hissy fits and temper tantrums. I kept acting like I do not want to throw a temper tantrum and now I don't feel like throwing them anymore....

So.. what I am trying to say is decide what you want to be.... and act like you are! Soon enough you will be!
Good luck and good night...