3 Tips To Break Bad Habits

Studies suggest that breaking a habit could take about 18 days to as much as 245 days. It entirely depends on the person’s preference and needs to break a habit. For instance, if you wish to break habits, you have had for only a month once in a day; it would be easier to get out of it.

However, the same thing you do twice or thrice in a day for a month could be a little more difficult to get out from. It is essential for you to believe that there is nothing that you cannot do. If you had the courage to take on a habit religiously, you have the same will power to get away with it too.

Here are three easy steps that you can follow to break habits:

Step 1: Choose an alternative to your habits

This is an important step and would help you to move forward faster. You need to find something that you can do at the time you feel like going back to your old habits. For instance, you have a habit of smoking cigarettes. Therefore, whenever you desire to smoke, you can chew bubble gum to keep you in control.

Every time we try to break habits, our central nervous system reacts to it, which is known as withdrawal. It would keep you distracted and help you break bad habits.      What would be even better is, if you can find someone who is also looking to quit that same habit. That would help both of you to keep on track. It would make your will power stronger, you would always have someone to share your experiences, and you would feel that you are not alone in this.

Step 2: Visualize success   

It is a well-proven fact that if you aspire for something every day, you think of it every day when you wake up, the world aspires to get it. You need to visualize your life without the habits that bother you. That is when you would be motivated to keep going.

You can keep happy pictures of moments with your family, or the adventures you always wanted to do, or maybe just things that are restricted to your habits.

Step 3: Start with small steps and be kind to yourself 

It is not wise to set unrealistic goals, which are too difficult to achieve. The initial days are the hardest and in order to get where you want, you need to start with baby steps. For instance, you want to reduce your snack intake in a day, you can start by limiting it to only once per day instead of 2-3 times a day. On the other hand, perhaps just decreasing the quantity eventually putting it to a halt.

Reward yourself each time you are able to accomplish you wished for in a day with something that you actually like to do. Having said that, the reward can’t be the snack you have been trying to get yourself to stop eating. Be kind to yourself, and achieve results without putting a halt to your life.