Do you have bad habits that interfere with your studies or work? If you are a student, you may be checking social media channels like Facebook, WhatsApp a lot, when you should be studying. And in case you are an employee who reaches late at work or spend too much time picking personal phone calls, instead of working on the project. In both the cases, you are wasting time on doing something unimportant and missing out on the important things. Simple indulging activities like listening to music, or watching TV for long hours, have the power to drive you far away from your goals. So never take your regular distractions or habits lightly.
Bad habits are habits that are developed over a period of time. It can damage what good achievements you made so far and keeps you away from working on greater goals, so it is imperative that you learn how to tackle them before it is too late.
The worst thing about bad habits are they are hard to break from, because our unconscious mind has already made a habit of repeating them over and over again. If you dig a little deeper, you would realize bad habits are enjoyable activities, which are easy to continue. Distancing yourself consciously away from bad habits, is tough. You need great determination and courage, to stay away from bad habits.,
On the positive note, it isn’t impossible. You can break bad habits as well as replace them with positive ones. The road to replacing bad habits is not easy but with conscious effort and will power, you can overcome them. Here are few strategies you could use to overcome your bad habits:
Study your thought patterns
Bad habits are the products of your thinking mind and the way to rectify those lies in there. It is scientifically proved that it takes 21 days of conscious efforts to build or break a habit. These 21 days comprise of changing your thinking patterns and actions. For e.g. you are a student and you hate Mathematics, so you always think to yourself ‘I will start practicing from tomorrow’, and we all know that tomorrow never arrives. Similarly, if you are an employee and you find it difficult to communicate and express your ideas and thoughts clearly in English, you keep telling yourself ‘I will work on my Spoken English skills from tomorrow’ and you never start. Planning to do a specific task every day and not doing it, becomes a habit. So when you think to take some important action or change your thinking pattern, start working on it right away.
You need a plan, create one
Research says you need a concrete plan to break free from bad habits. Think one of your bad habits is to spend too much time in talking with friends. You can’t change your habit by saying ‘I will stop talking with friends for longer duration.’, rather you need to create a plan which stops you from wasting time talking to multiple friends.
Another important thing, you need to track your progress almost every week, if not every day. Check for any changes in your habits. When you make conscious effort, develop a plan and stick to it, to stay away from a bad habit, you are sure to progress.
Self-awareness is important
Knowing yourself is crucial to break any bad habit. You know how things work with you and you are the only person who can motivate you to break a bad habit. Build self-awareness to understand how you feel, react and what makes you do positive things. When you know what ticks you, you may find it a little easier to stay away from bad habits. Self-discipline and self-awareness are important aspects when you are trying to stay away from destructive habits.
Do what works for you
When you are making enormous effort to kill a bad habit. Always, remember one thing ‘You are Unique’, what strategies are written all over the Internet may not be the right way to deal with your bad habit. You can read them, and come up with your unique way of solving your problem. Every individual is different and has his/her own thinking mechanism. You know how you can overcome a bad habit, so work only on those lines which can bring results for you.
Be positive
Being positive is important to break a bad habit. You always need to stay positive when the ride gets tougher. In the initial days, when you are trying to change your bad habit, you may feel irritated or restless. But if you maintain your positivity, in those tough moments, you will develop perseverance to endure the difficult times.
Reward your tiny improvements
On the way to breaking a bad habit, you will achieve small achievements. Don’t forget to celebrate your improvements even though they are small. When you start rewarding yourself for your achievements, your brain will start thinking on those matters and in a matter of month, you will realize you are doing the right things easily.
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