<p> <span>Breaking Your Bad Habits</span></p><p><span>In this article you will learn the following</span><br></p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">-How bad habits gets formed</b></p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">-Why it is difficult to get rid of your bad habit</b></p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">-What Reinforces your bad habits</b></p><p>-<b data-redactor-tag="b">36 Tips How to get rid of your bad habits</b></p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">Very few people are consciously aware of their self-destructive habits of</b> overthinking, overanalyzing and catastrophizing along with <b data-redactor-tag="b">how sometime their behavior becomes toxic for their loved ones. </b></p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">But -Most of the people know their bad habits- which is responsible for majority of the</b> problems, challenges, stress and negative consequences - <b data-redactor-tag="b">in their life</b>.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">Some of the bad habits may ruins your most important relationships and might be the biggest obstacle to your growth and success.</b></p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">Logically if you know what is bad for you - you should be able to change easily - but if you are like me </b>- you would find it very-very difficult to stop or change your bad habits.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">Most of you would have experienced that leaving any addictions, your toxic thinking-patterns and negative-behaviors</b> - is not only highly challenging but for few turns out impossible to change.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">In real life situations - breaking bad habits takes time and effort along with disciplined perseverance</b> - you would fail multiple times before you are able to get rid of it.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">Why it is So Hard to Change - why can't you just stop your bad habits taking control over your destiny</b>.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">My own experiences is that Bad habits are very easy to form and most difficult to get rid of</b>.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">On the other hand forming good habits are very-very difficult to acquire - and replacing any bad habit with a good one </b>is even more challenging.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">We acquire most of our bad habits because of either extreme Stress or Boredom because of not having any inspiring goals</b>.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">In many cases there are deeper emotional-mental-psychological issues which triggers your bad habits.</b></p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">Your bad habits gets reinforced due to some of your perceptions, beliefs or any deep-rooted fear as well as emotional-insecurities</b> - which makes it harder and harder for you to leave them.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">If you can identify how you developed these self-sabotaging, self-defeating and self-harming habits and routines</b> - you would be able to create sustainable meaningful changes in your lifestyles by adopting healthy and positive behaviors by replacing the negative habits.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">Genesis of many negative habits have to do with instant</b> - fun, thrill, adventure and high levels of excitements - which we get when we do something inherently negative.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">Few of the deadly habits are</b> - smoking, substance-abuse, Spending Too Much Money, Buying recklessly, alcohol, drugs, gambling and excessive use of social-media and mobile etc.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">Pleasure and fast-gratification based habits are the hardest to break - as you get thrill and high every time you indulge in that behavior</b>.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">People keep getting trapped deeper and deeper - when they indulge in bad unhealthy habits looking for same levels of pleasure</b> - <b data-redactor-tag="b">which actually gradually becomes less and less thrilling</b>.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">People who get addicted to drugs and alcohol - their craving dictates their actions and in most cases ruins not only</b> their relationships with their near and dear ones but <b data-redactor-tag="b">also play havoc financially, professionally, physically, psychological and socially in the lives of their most loved ones</b>.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">Some of the people when they realize and decide to get rid of their bad habits use their will-power excessively</b> - as a result it gets depleted and your self-control becomes weaker and weaker <b data-redactor-tag="b">- making them lose the requisite mental-emotional-physical resolve to take actions</b> and as a result there-of <b data-redactor-tag="b">their bad habits actually becomes more powerful.</b></p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">To become more powerful than your temptations, your cravings and your urges which seeks instant gratification you need to develop and nurture</b> - strong emotional powerhouse - by practicing few small-small yet profound action-steps [read my how to do it yourself blogs on this and on self-control].</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">There is no single formula - which can give you the solutions in one go - and which will work for everyone</b>.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">You need to explore, experiment and then choose what works for you</b> - <b data-redactor-tag="b">many of the tips given in this article as well in my other relevant blogs will work for you wonderfully as it is</b>.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">36 Tips How to get rid of your bad habits</b></p> <ul><li>1.<b data-redactor-tag="b">The very 1st and most important step</b> - <b data-redactor-tag="b">is knowing what you need to change and WHY </b>- by <b data-redactor-tag="b">becoming aware of your unhealthy habits and in how many ways they are harming</b> you PLUS what benefits if you get rid of these</li><li>2. Focus on WHY you want to change - <b>identify all your WHYs</b> <b>- do it for both negative consequences of not changing as well as the positive benefits of eliminating your bad habits - in details</b></li> <li><b data-redactor-tag="b">3.</b><b data-redactor-tag="b">7 techniques to manage your Triggers</b></li> <li>I.Then you need to identify what triggers your bad habits - makes you go for that unhealthy habit</li> <li>II.Then you have to identify which specific situation or person - presses the trigger most</li> <li>III.Identify which person and situation you can avoid - without any significant loss </li> <li>IV.Identify what rewards - makes you stick with this bad habit - then find something to substitute the reward for doing healthy behaviors </li> <li>V.Identify which person or situation you can't avoid and must deal with by yourself - then you need to learn and practice the techniques given in my blogs - dealing with difficult people, dealing toxic bosses, dealing with mean people etc.</li> <li>VI.Create your own plans of action based on the tips that you find doable for you from my blogs and elsewhere</li> <li>VII.Identify what you need to learn and equip yourself with - in order to manage situations and people more effectively </li> <li><b data-redactor-tag="b">4.</b><b data-redactor-tag="b">Use the NLP visualization techniques to - visualize seeing yourself in the most tempting situations that triggers bad behaviors in you</b> - then using your mental-power see yourself refusing the temptation - to build your mental-resilience - <b data-redactor-tag="b">PRACTICE THIS - many-many times</b></li> <li>5.Explore and identify what small-small positive behavior you can use - when you feel the urge to go for negative behavior</li> <li>6.If you are one of the few lucky ones - who are able to easily replace their unhealthy routines with new healthy ones - like exercising</li> <li>7.Daily Exercises done in a disciplined manner helps you increase your self-control tremendously</li> <li>8.Find alternative behaviors that can counteract your unhealthy urges</li> <li>9.Find small-small steps of a newly identified behaviors and start using it more and more often and in multiple scenarios - to slowly improve your ability to maintain these behavioral changes</li> <li>10.<b data-redactor-tag="b">Solicit the help of your friends, co-workers and family</b> - for some addiction or disorder which is ruing your life and making you miserable</li> <li>11.Seek help from medically qualified experts - in case you are unable to deal with yourself</li> <li>12.Create buddy to break your bad-habits -Join forces with somebody - for motivation and sustaining and encouraging each other</li> <li>13.Surround yourself with people who live the way you want to live</li> <li>14.Understand that you need to focus on to become yourself - the real authentic you</li> <li>15.<b data-redactor-tag="b">Do not try to ignore or suppress your self-criticizing inner talk - instead listen to that and tell that yes this is true BUT</b> you are going to break it - I have failed in this BUT I am going do this and this and this [be very-very specific] to eliminate this and get a better result</li> <li>16.<b data-redactor-tag="b">Create solutions for failures in your Plans</b> - all of us would make mistake, screw-up, go off-track or fail - this is part of growth and success process</li><li>17. Initially use reminders <b>- so that you do not forget to take an important action</b> - Using stickers, sticky notes, or other visual reminders</li><li>18. Train yourself to be mentally flexible - let go of the all OR nothing mindset</li><li>19 Start small <b>till slowly you build the habit and momentum</b> - nothing of significance can be done fast and soon</li><li>20. Change your environment <b data-redactor-tag="b"></b><b>and surroundings</b> - if need be then on even permanent basis - to make it more conducive and supporting of your change-goals</li><li>21. Focus on Self-care <b>- throughout your life</b></li> <li>22.Eat well, sleep adequate, relax and have fun</li> <li>23.Do things that improve your mood -<a name="reward-yourself">Motivate yourself with creating healthy and motivating rewards for </a>reaching a milestones</li> <li><a name="be-patient">24.Have patience - Give it time</a> -Accept that success isn't a straight line</li> <li>25.Monitor your actions and emotions to be on the lookout for triggering stimuli to Know your cues</li> <li>26.Capitalize on major life changes to break an unhealthy habit</li> <li>27.Identify situation in the past where you successfully got rid of a bad behavior and ALSO those where you had relapsed into old habits- it is important to examine to determine what you can do to avoid relapse AND also how to successfully replace a bad habit with a healthy one</li> <li>28.Realize the Reward of Your Bad Habit - Replace the reward with curiosity to creating sustainable, positive habit change is to find a new reward that is more rewarding than the existing behavior -Use a Mix of Small and Large Rewards</li> <li>29.Impose a Punishment or Remove a Reward for Your Bad Habit</li> <li>30.Create barriers to your bad habits - try If you can create obstacles that make the bad habit more difficult or unpleasant to engage AND makes any other course of action more preferable </li></ul><div><span class="redactor-invisible-space"><br></span></div><div><span class="redactor-invisible-space"> #badhabits, #unhealthyhabits, #unhealthybehaviors, #howbadhabitsgetsformed, #whyitisverydifficulttoleavebadhabit, #howtogetridofyourbadhabits, #breakingyourbadhabits, #replacingyourbadhabitswithgoodones, #whatreinforcesyourbadhabits <span class="redactor-invisible-space"></span></span><br></div>