Kicking Bad Habits
I came across this post by George Takei (or, more likely, by his social media manager) on Facebook today:
https://www.georgetakei.com/people-share-bad-habit-curbed-2645378914.html
…and I was pleased to note that many of the self-help topics I’ve written about here on this site are being acted upon by people (probably not because they’ve read my articles), who experience the benefits of making those changes:
Other topics in that article (e.g. smoking) are ones that I intend covering at some stage too.
The fact is, many of the activities that people do every day are often ones that they don’t even consider to be bad habits in the first place.
Society is almost designed around these habits – alcohol, coffee, consumerism, smoking, and, in the USA at least, an expectation that a large (or excessive) quantity of food is good, regardless of its quality.
We are inundated with adverts for these products, whose images we see constantly on TV and in movies, and it’s almost a case of being considered strange if you don’t indulge in these habits.
As a result, people find it difficult to conceive of, for example, getting the sleep they need or not drinking coffee.
And yet most of the items on the above list are bad for you, physically and/or mentally.
The problem is that many people use these to make it through the week – e.g. coffee during weekdays and alcohol at night and at weekends, with a regular supply of snacks (aka comfort food) on the side.
Maybe it’s time to examine what it is that you do each day that is a (bad) habit without your even knowing it?
Even if you manage to change only one habit during the next 12 months, that’s still worth doing, and then the following year, work on another one, and so on.
And if you don’t do this for yourself, it’s vital that you try to ingrain the right habits in your children – they are the future, and yet in the USA, according to some reports, over 50% of children are suffering from some form of chronic health condition.
Finally, if you are looking to replace any bad habits with good ones, then Modules 3 and 4 of my Brain Training For Success course are largely about how to do this – getting rid of old, bad habits and developing new, better ones.
PS. If the link to the article above does not work for some reason, you can always try this archive copy of the article instead.
