How to overcome bad habits

 How to overcome bad habits

Bad habits are those habits which are not good for you but unfortunately, you are addicted to it. Habits can be good or bad as well. You Need to figure out what is right and what is wrong. When you do anything and you start feeling good, then you do that particular thing again and again to achieve that moment of pleasure or good feeling, then the habit is developed. It’s very difficult to overcome from bad habits because you are habitual to feel that good feeling due to that habit that is the moment when a habit is harmful to you and starts destroying your life.

Here are some tips are given below to overcome bad habits –

1. Develop positive thinking –

Develop Positive Thinking

Positive thinking is the first point which is required to overcome bad habits. Sure, positive thinking by itself won’t take you to success, but it certainly goes a long way to motivate you to do the other things required. When I learned how to remove negative thinking by positive thinking, then I realize that positive thoughts can help you to achieve success in anything and also help me to overcome bad habits. It’s not easy to develop positive thinking, because in this world of negativity positive thinking can be developed by practice only.

Focus on this habit first, and you’ll have a much easier time with any of the others. Start by becoming more aware of your negative self-talk — do a little analyze throughout the day, marking a point each time you notice a negative thought. Soon you’ll recognize them, and you can remove them.

2. Exercise –

Exercise

When you do exercise then your blood flow goes up and due to the physical movement of the body increases the oxygen intake of your body which makes to fresh and energetic. It makes you feel better about yourself and more confident. That leads to a better way of success with other positive changes. It makes the positive habit stronger and you also think positive to be regular in exercise. It relieves stress and gives you time to think — this leads to better mental well-being in your life overall. It helps with creativity. So use the habit of exercise to overcome bad habits.

3. Focus on one goal –

Focus on the goal

Just as focusing on one task at a time is more effective, and focusing on one habit at a time is more efficient, so is focusing on one goal at a time. While it might seem very difficult, focusing on one goal at a time is the most powerful way of achieving your goals. When you try to take on many goals at once, you’re spreading thin your focus and energy — the two critical components for achieving a goal.

What if you have 5 goals you want to achieve? Pick one to focus on first. Break it into mini-goals you can accomplish this month if it’s a longer-term goal. Pick an action you can do today. Keep doing this until the goal is accomplished — do an action every day, finish the mini-goal, pick the next mini-goal to work on. Then, when your One Goal is completed, focus on the next goal. Some goals are ongoing ones — like meditation every day, or exercising every day. In those cases, turn them into habits — focus exclusively on turning the goal into a habit, until the habit is ingrained. Then focus on the next goal.

4. Eliminate the non-essential –

First, identify the essential i.e. the things in your life that are most important to you, that you love the most. Then eliminate everything else. This simplifies things and leaves you with the space to focus on the essential. This process works with anything for example - with your life in general, with work projects and tasks, with emails and other communication. This will change your life because it will help you to simplify, to focus on what’s important, and to build the life you want. When you are focused on essential things then you don’t have time to focus on bad habits. This will also eliminate the bad habits from your life.

5. Daily Routine – 

Always try to set your daily routine and make yourself busy. It’s so simple, but creating a daily routine for yourself can make a big difference in your life. The best routines, I’ve found, come at the start and end of the day — both your workday and your day in general. That means, develop a routine for when you awake, for when you first start working, for when you finish your workday, and for the end of your evening. How will that change your life? It will help you get a great start to your day, and finish your day by preparing for the next day. It’ll help you firmly root the productive habits you want to firm in your everyday life. It’ll help you focus on what’s important, not just what comes up. It’ll help you make sure you get done all the things you really want to make sure gets done every day. And that can mean a lot.

 6. Keep yourself busy –

Keep Your self Busy

Every time when you are not busy you attracts towards your bad habits. Because you don’t have to do nothing more important than your habit and your mind start craving for that bad habits. For example – the person who is addicted to smoking, ever a time when he is not busy then their mind starts telling him that he needs a cigarette. So that is why try to keep yourself busy in something more important than your bad habit. It will help you to overcome that bad habit.

In the end, I just want to say that it is very easy to adopt bad habits, but it is very difficult to come out of these bad habits. These habits will spoil your life, relationships, friends and your family. For example – If anybody is addicted to alcohol then it’s very difficult for him to come out from that habit of drinking. Due to this his friends and family also start suffering from it. So remember the thing in mind these bad habits can never be your friends, yes you can escape from your worries and your responsibility on a temporary basis with these habits but not permanently.

Start efforts to overcome your bad habits. Do not hesitate to accept your bad habits. Always face them with courage, I know it is not easy but believes me, it is possible to overcome from them. If you have any problem or you need any help regarding overcome your bad habits so feel free to write down below, I will try my best to give you the best solution for it.