Easy or hard habits?

On the 7 & 1/2 habits of highly effective learners (at http://www.plcmc.org/public/learning/player.html ), I'd have to say first is the easiest personally, and the last half (7.5) is hardest. Like many others of you with or working toward a degree, visualizing the end (that sheepskin blazoned M.L.S in my case) was the easy (and most motivational) part of the process. But permission (to ones self) to play on the way is hard. The undesired result is often working harder, but not smarter.