Everyone’s got one. Every single person. You for instance, stare at people unwittingly making them feel awkward, your friend makes noises when eating, another laughs through their nose. You name it, people have it.
Bad habits are often unhealthy and make us unappealing. But most importantly, they make us feel bad about ourselves, weak, incapable of change and doom to repeating them for the rest of our lives.
If you’re still reading this, you probably want to get rid of that late-night fridge scavenging or worse your incurable cluttering habits. Well, we’re here to help!
Planning and Commitment
The first and most challenging step is actually acknowledging the existence of your bad habit and its bad influence on you( and every single person in your life that kindly stays in your life).
Then you have to pledge on trying to kick it off. But don’t plan big.
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Give yourself a 24-hour time frame in which you are not allowed to exercise your bad habit. If it works try for another 24 hours the next day. Breaking down a month’s plan into 30 discrete days, suddenly makes the whole venture way more feasible. Face each day as a new challenge, commit to it and complete it successfully.
Reward-Inspiration
During this life-changing challenge of quitting a habit, it is almost mandatory that you reward yourself in somehow.
Of course you’re more than a dog, a glass of wine won’t make you ecstatic as a cookie will make a dog. However rewards will fuel your emotionally help you keep your spirits up and allow you to carry on with your habit-quitting venture.
Apart from rewards you need to set for yourself a kind of role model. Someone you admire, or find their achievement fascinating. Looking up to them will keep you focused on your goals and give you the necessary strength and courage to go on.
Think ahead
Another important action you should be taking is to be positive. It is only normal that one day you might fail and succumb to your habit. It happens. Don’t get discouraged or angry, face it like an adult and move on. Instead of using it as an excuse for quitting the habit-quitting venture, see it as a temptation you will bravely get over.
If you focus on the person you will become once your bad habit is extinct, you will have a valid, substantial motivation. Looking at the person you will become, one that’s entirely free of the trivialities of life, will certainly keep you on track.
What habits will you be quitting?
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