![]() ![]() Your best friend celebrates his birthday in two weeks and he'll be so insulted if you don't vibe with the (drinking) tribe. Like most of the millennials nowadays, you can't think of a party without the booze and the last time you partied, you got so wasted and hungover that you made the famous commitment of never-ever drinking again. We need an example here so let's just say you're a millennial trying to quit drinking. Trying to do more than you are capable at the moment Worse yet, the more you think about it, the more complex it gets and you start dealing with trivia instead of facing the problem head-on.Īdvice: Don’t think about it too much, don’t talk about it. That’s why, constantly thinking about doing something and overanalyzing how you’re gonna do it, actually keeps you from doing it. If you want proof of that, just of how your heart rate increases when you watch horror movies, etc. Your subconscious doesn’t know the difference between what you think and what really happens. The rest half of your thought processes imply visualizing what your inner voice narrates. Your mind acts as if you’ve done the deed already so why would you make an effort to really do it?Īt least 50% of what goes on in your mind is narration. Talking too much is a form of procrastination.īy constantly jabbering about how you’ll do this and that, you’re visualizing it and fooling yourself by thinking that you already did it… which naturally stops you from even trying to actually do it. It’s not just because your environment might get bitter and plot to compromise your efforts…Īmong other reasons, silence is golden because talking about your intentions has its way of weakening your resolve. That’s true, but do you know why it’s wise to keep your mouth shut? You must have heard that it’s not that good to talk too much about your intentions, endeavors, and enterprises. This mistake is the polar opposite of the previous one. Overanalyzing how you’ll break the habits and talking about it too much Don’t put it off for next Monday, Christmas, or any significant date… That’s just postponing the work. Thinking about how exactly you are going to do something helps you break bad habits easier | Image sourceĭon’t wait for the conditions to be perfect so you can start restructuring your behavior. So write your idea, your desire, and your highly-specified plan of execution. This is also a great way of keeping track of your results and motivating yourself to change your behavior. Write it on a piece of paper and leave it in visible places so that you constantly remind yourself of your decision. ![]() Time passes and our bad habits grow deeper roots.Īdvice: Specify exactly when, why, where, and how you’re breaking the habit. Our motivation falters and we go back to our old toxic ways. Worse yet, in times of great pressure, we can’t seem to remember all the pros of breaking the habit and all the cons of keeping it. We just postpone what we have to do by saying that we’ll definitely do it sometime in the non-specified near future. That way we maintain the illusion that we’re trying to leave our comfort zone, although we never really try. Mistake: We fail to specify exactly when, how, where, and why we’re going to break the habit. That’s why instead of breaking free, we fool ourselves by postponing our decisions and keeping things vague. Leaving comfort zones, however, seems to be harder than we think. The problem with comfort zones, however, is that, after a while, they actually get really uncomfortable. Habits, no matter how bad they are, have a way of making us feel safe in our comfort zones. Postponing the strife needed to stop the bad habits Luckily, Habitify is here to provide that guidance and point out the deadliest mistakes most people make when trying to quit their bad habits. In case you’re not one of these few disciplined individuals who successfully break bad habits, you’re in for a treat.ĭepending on the habit and how badly you cling to it, it may get next to impossible to break it without the right guidance. It seems that we relapse as soon as we make a breakthrough and only a few lucky iron-willed individuals somehow manage to steer clear of addictive behavior. Most of us have, at least once in our lives, fallen prey to bad habits that we can’t get rid of no matter how hard we try.
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