Kicking Bad Habits
What comes to your mind when I use the expression “kick the habit”? What habits are
not serving you in your life?
A habit is an acquired behavior pattern regularly followed until it has become almost
involuntary.
In other words, if we...
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Kicking Bad Habits
What comes to your mind when I use the expression “kick the habit”? What habits are
not serving you in your life?
A habit is an acquired behavior pattern regularly followed until it has become almost
involuntary.
In other words, if we practice something long enough, often enough and on
a consistent basis then it becomes a habit; it takes over us, it controls us and we do it
without conscious thought or questioning.
We also need to understand that we engage in habits of doing and not doing.
In other
words, if you do not exercise, then that is also a habit – not exercising.
Recently, the US government applied the largest tax hike ever on cigarettes and
combined with other state charges and taxes, suddenly, I have been inundated for
requests by people for help to kick the habit of smoking.
People often speak in terms of ‘breaking a habit’ but the actual process does not simply
involve pattern interruption, it involves replacing the habit with something else which s
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