3 Methods for Effectively Breaking Bad

Habits

What are bad habits?

Habits we don't need, right?

Well, that's only partly true, which can be the main

reason why we have such a hard time breaking

undesired habits.

It does not matter if it's eating badly, biting our nails

or skipping the gym, this article will show a 3 step

process to you to over come your unwelcome habits.

Before I go into the 3 steps, let's consider the

traditional way for breaking a bad habit. Let's say you

wanted to stop drinking coffee after 4pm simply because you realize that the caffeine can make it

hard for you to get to bed through the night. What exactly do most people do?

They provide a pep-talk to themselves. 'From this day forward, no further espresso after 4pm

because I don't wish to have caffeine after 4pm.' So what happens? The first few days are easy in

fact by the end of the week, the need to drink coffee after 4pm becomes stronger and stronger.

Some people may even last until week two but most people just cave in to their indulgences and

then regret maybe not having the ability to keep their resolve.

If this sounds familiar, then you are in luck because this article will go over a 3 step method that

will sustainably break your improper habits. Each one of these 3 steps involves asking a vital

concern concerning your bad habit.

Ready?

What does it do for you?

At first we outlined improper habits as something we don't want but that is not really true. The

key reason why your bad habit is hard to break is really because it's doing something positive for

you. It is important to find what that's and to clearly establish it. As an example, smoking is

really a bad habit you want to break but it helps you to relax and that's the reason why you carry

on and smoke.

What else is it possible to do to have the same benefit?

Once you identify the benefit that you get from your bad habit, the best way to break it is to

locate different ways to obtain the same benefit that your bad habit gives you. Therefore if we

keep with the smoking example, the goal is to find different ways to relax besides smoking.

Choices might be to meditate or to exercise.

More details would be found here.

Which is the most effective choice I can invest in?

The last thing you want to do is to trade one bad habit for

another. Make certain that the choice that you decide on

does not have any negative side effects. If your option to

smoking would be to take valium, you might want to decide

on something else. Another part of this question is to make

sure that the alternative is something you can commit to. If

you know that you don't like meditating and can't agree to it,

then by all means select something else that can give you the

same benefit.

Therefore there's the 3 step process:

- Find the advantage of the habit change

- Find solutions to give you exactly the same benefit

- Choose the best alternative it is possible to invest in