HOW TO BREAK BAD HABIT: - 7 Proven Steps To Breaking Bad Habit And Addiction.

Success Digest
with Olusegun Samson G.

Week 40

HOW TO BREAK BAD HABIT: - 7 Proven Steps To Breaking Bad Habit And Addiction.

“The most exhilarating achievement is breaking bad habit.”
~ Anonymous.

Almost every one of us have one bad habit or the other. From biting of nails, talkativeness, wasting time on social media, television and movies addictiveness, gambling, games, disordered eating, excessive sugar in-take, using sleep as escape, to more grievous ones like; smoking, drinking of alcohol, dangerous sexual practices, drug addiction, masturbation and racism among many others. The fact is, each day a new habit is formed or one is in the process of forming one. Beware!

Host of people all over the world lament everyday about one bad habit or the other. They hate doing it, but it’s like they can do without it. And in a bit to find solution, they do some ridiculous things that always end-up complicating things. I once heard of a young man who cut off his penis in a bit to stop his addiction to sex and masturbation. That foolish act claims his life. What a pity!

In the process of forming a bad habit, the beginning is usually sweet and seems harmless. But once formed, it becomes unstoppable and grievous like a moving training that looses it break. Bad habits are self-destructive. You have to make a choice to either break that bad habit or watch it break you.

Before we go into the 7 Proven Steps to Breaking a Bad Habit; please note this: Most of life is habitual, we do almost the same thing everyday. This is why you need to be conscious of what you do per time. Our habit, good or bad, makes us who we are.

7 Proven Steps To Breaking Bad Habits And Addictions

1. Acknowledge : the first step is to identify the bad habit you wish to stop and acknowledge it’s negative influence. Write the habit down and examine it self-destructive nature. For example, biting of nail do not just make you look ridiculous, it equally pose a serious threat to one’s health, as the finger nail is one of the most contaminated part of the body. No matter how harmless that bad habit may look like, if you try research about it negative impact, you will be startled by your findings.
2. Examine the Situational Background : habit are usually influence by certain emotional or situational background. You need to find out; when, where, why, how and with whom you perform the habit. When you understand the situational background of the habit, it makes it easy for you to develop a strategy to break the pattern.
3. Be Determine : we always under estimate our will-power. Bad habit could be difficult to break, but like every other thing, it always bows to the force of determination. Every true determination is backup by action induce by self-control. Just make up your mind to stop. You can.
4. Work on your Thought: the foundation of every habit is laid in the mind. There are images, voices and ideas in the mind that are fueling the bad habit by generation bad thought. Habit is the product of our most dominating thought. So to stop a bad habit, you need to kill a bad thought. Bad thought are best kill with ‘but’. For example, it feels nice to smoke, but I will not, because it will affect my health. When you ‘but kill’ your bad thought, over time your mind will be filled with good thoughts.
5. Replace the Bad Habit with Good Habit: when your clear a piece of land and leave it fallow. After a while, unwanted weeds will grow on it. So it’s important you replace the bad habit with a good one. Looking for a good habit to substitute the bad one is a key step in breaking bad habit.
6. Be Patient and Persistence: it takes time to break a bad habit. In fact psychologists believe it could take as long as six month to a year to break some habit. Be patient and never give up. Just like Ralph Whaldo Emerson said, “That which we persist in doing becomes easier-not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased.”
7. Let your Family and Close Associates Know What You Want to Do and Ask Them to Help you:
this will inspire commitment and help you to be accountable. Tell them to watch your progress and do all they can to help.

More importantly, you need to seek God’s help in prayer too. Because some bad habits are usually influence by some unseen powerful forces; only prayer to God can break them. If you need special counsel, please feel free to contact me.

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