What is the best How to eliminate your bad habits in 2024?
Habits are an interesting part of human behavior that they accumulate over time, and when we practice them, we reinforce them. We tend to be slaves to our habits, good and bad. It is a difficult task to change our habits, good or bad. Anyone who has stopped smoking, drinking or eating a different diet will testify that they found the experience difficult. It’s a fact of life. You will have to get rid of your bad habits to make room for good ones.
Think about this.
Are you still struggling with what you tried three years ago? Are you still good at things you were good at three years ago? Change is particularly difficult because, in effect, you are changing subconscious behaviors.
You’re not consciously driving when you’re driving, you’re just driving. If you were to think about it, you would soon have frequent collisions. Constant repetition changes conscious habits into unconscious habits after a while. These habits are an integral part of our behavior and it is more difficult to get rid of them than when we first experienced them because they are normally linked to an emotional experience.
This means that our bad habits and most of our fears are established early in life and are accompanied by emotional experience.
Maybe you had to get up in front of your class to read something and you were embarrassed and terrified. You felt these emotions because it was the first time you had been asked to complete this task. Nothing had prepared you for this task of speaking publicly. You had no training, no hints, no advice, and no preparation.
Your embarrassment made you feel humiliated in front of your classmates. Therefore, you now avoid appearing in front of a group and speaking in public because you want to avoid that feeling again. Typically, you reinforce this fear of speaking to groups by convincing yourself that you can’t do it. You actually reinforce it more by telling people you can’t do it. A survey found that Americans’ biggest fear is speaking in front of a group.
First, we need to understand and remember where these habits come from so that you can begin to accept and deal with them. The change process will go faster and smoother if you can determine why, how and when these behaviors were first established and when the experience or fear was experienced.
If we don’t know why we behave in a certain way, but we also don’t understand that we behave in a certain way, fixing the unconscious behavior presents a real challenge. Always remember that it is difficult, but not impossible, to change ourselves. It requires a certain degree of thought and the application of “will power.” But above all, the most important ingredient for changing ourselves is that motivation must be stronger than the need to continue behaving in a certain way.
As a child, you were exposed to a lot of influences and a wide range of people, and this was the time in your life that you were vulnerable to all of these different standards. All of these people and situations have had an effect on your behaviors consciously or unconsciously.