Do you also suffer from procrastination or the sticky habits of overeating? Are you having a tough time removing such bad habits from life? If yes, then you are at the right place to eliminate such habits. Habits are classified into good and bad ones and people try to keep themselves away from the bad ones. Everyone has certain kinds of habits either bad for them or good. There is this famous saying that when there are two wolves one in the dark and the other in the light. Which one will grow? The one you feed. Likewise, the bad habits become stronger and harder to leave when you keep pounding your head on them to make them firm. There is a famous American scientist Dr.BJ Fogg who has developed a framework to quit bad habits and his framework includes three elements motivation, ability and triggers all of which are discussed in this video.
Habits, like always delaying your important tasks, checking your phones in the meeting, and always snoozing alarms, can damage your reputation and make you turn into the villain of your own story. In this video, we will explore why we even develop habits?
The development of a habit entirely involves the psychological part of our body. The formation of either bad or good habits is related to the psychology of our brain. When we tend to repeat our tasks all day every day it becomes a memory of our brain and it tends to do it repetitively and automatically. Those habits become part of your unconscious brain and they begin to perform those activities without any initiative. For instance, drinking caffeine daily in the morning will become your habit and you will get irritated and annoyed when you won’t be able to have it on some random day. That’s how bad habits affect our mental health and lure us to think that we have been on the right path. Bad habits are part of the unconscious brain so it is hard to spot them. The pleasure you get from performing bad habits makes it harder for an individual to leave them instantly.
The bad habits are difficult to quit but they are not impossible to leave. Let us dig into some ways to overcome bad habits.
Identifying the cause of your habit
The best way to solve a problem is to find the root cause of that problem. Identifying which one of the factors is causing that habit to form and process is a necessary part of quitting that peculiar habit. How do we identify the cause of bad habits? Begin to analyze your schedule and your day-to-day activities that which are those activities which are stimulating such habits. For instance, some people have a habit of smoking, now you have to analyze which factors are triggering smoking. Most individuals start smoking just to fight stress and depression. In order to overcome such habits, people tend to involve them with bad habits of overeating, alcohol consumption and smoking. After finding the triggers to your habits, try to stay away from such triggers. When you have enough self-awareness about yourself, you will try to stay away from such triggers.
Use replacements
There is one psychologist named Shawn Achor who prefers to put obstacles in the way of your bad habits so it may become easy for you to get rid of them. For instance, if you have a bad habit of repeatedly checking your Instagram then you can try to remove this habit by uninstalling the application. When we are constantly involved in a task, it becomes our unintentional habit and muscle memory to do that. If you have a bad habit of gossiping about people at work, you can avoid it by playing any game in that particular lunchtime. You can always use replacements and tactics to avoid certain bad habits. You can also flip the bad habits by using them into positive ones so you may keep yourself away from harm. How can you do it? If you have a bad habit of criticising people, try praising them instead for their little good habits. You can always replace the bad habits with the good ones when you have proper self-awareness.
Reward yourself
A sense of accomplishment is acknowledged only when it is awarded with some reward. In order to make yourself good about breaking the habit, it is necessary that you start acknowledging your progress. Rewarding yourself with little treats releases a sense of accomplishment and makes you feel more motivated. For constant motivation to give up on your habits, it is necessary to stay dedicated and consistent. Start to associate yourself with all the good habits by realising all the good rewards at your destination. The quench of seeking your favourite reward at the end will help you remain dedicated.
Concluding the whole video, bad habits are not impossible to give up on. We can always look for some better ways to overcome our fears and bad habits. We hope you guys enjoyed this video. For more interesting content, Don’t forget to like, share and subscribe to our channel. Thank you.
Don’t forget to reward yourself at the end of the accomplishment of quitting a habit. This will keep you dedicated and consistent.