How To Change A Bad Habit In 30 Days Or Less!
Want to change a bad habit that is destroying your life?
I have always struggled with habits, letting go of bad ones and creating new ones that could help improve my life and I know am not alone in this.
When I was younger, I was always interested in everything productivity, self improvement and even journaling.
I always saw journaling as a new opportunity to improve myself and become more than I was.
I love the idea of a blank clean page on a journaling notebook, it always reminds me, that no matter what has happened in the past, I could always start afresh, I could always plan to be better.
With a single stroke of my pen, I could change my entire life.
All I had to do write down what I wanted to change on a piece of paper and create a plan to make it happen.
And you can too!
Every one of us has bad habits that we can’t seem to control,
Habits that we would like to break but simply don’t know how to,
What if I told you that it was possible but not just that,
What if I told you that you could break that bad habit in as short as 30 days!
Sounds incredible right?
That in just 30 days, you could get rid of your biggest shortcomings!
In this post we will be looking at 5 powerful ways that you can break a bad habit in 3 months or less.
So if you are ready, let’s get right to it!
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How to Break Any Bad Habit in 30 Days!
Good habits take time to build up and are usually the hardest things to accomplish, bad habits on the other hand can be the simplest thing to pick up,
It’s just easier to build up a bad habit than it is a good one…
Letting go of that bad habit can be even harder than building it up…
It’s hard but it’s not impossible…
And here are 5 ways that you can!
1. Ask Yourself What Habits You Are Trying To Get Rid Of?
This is a really easy question to answer; the first step in getting rid of any bad habit is to identify it.
You want to take a sheet of paper and pen and clearly state out the habits that you are trying to change.
Also write out the reasons why you would like to change this habit and the effect having this bad habit has in your life currently.
Go ahead and write out what habit you would rather have instead and if it were successfully implemented, how it would impact your life positively.
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2. Make a Decision
Every habit, whether good or bad starts with a decision,
A decision to do it or not do it, a simple yes or no can be the difference between a life of depression and one of happiness, or a life of success or failure.
To achieve your goal of changing your bad habit in 30 days, you will need to make a decision of how important it is for you to change that habit and what changes you are willing to make to ensure that it is a success.
You can start with little changes and then increase them as you go along to make sure that you don’t get burnt out very quickly.
As motivation, you could write out the main reason you decided to change that bad habit at the top of your habit changer worksheet, just to stop you from giving up on it.
3. Get to Work
At this stage, you want to get to work on your habits actively by setting goals.
You need to fit these goals into your schedule by creating milestones (activities or tasks) that you can add to your daily to-do list and make sure to be disciplined enough to stick to them.
Plan ahead of time before these activities are ready to make sure that you have no excuse for skipping them or not doing them.
Prepare your mind ahead that you will not be skipping this tasks, putting yourself on a streak can also help you!
Since you have accomplished that goal for 3 days in a row, you wouldn’t want to skip out on the 4th or 5th etc.
You can also create a vision board of your progress and keep it where you can look at it every day and appreciate your progress, this helps to motivate you more.
4. Eliminate Backsliding Opportunities
Whenever you set a new goal or start a new challenge,
It’s very easy to backslide…
There are times when you just don’t feel like doing what you need to do, times when you have the strength to carry out that task or even care about the goal you set.
We all have those days…don’t go blaming yourself if you relapse, it is quite common.
But there are things you can do to reduce the frequency or opportunity of them happening.
You want to write down your weak points or bad habit triggers,
These are things that cause you or make you privy to those bad habits and
It can be anything from a situation or an emotional feeling or state
You need to write out ways to avoid them or alternative solutions when they happen.
For example, you might say, “I end up biting my fingernails when am nervous”, the trigger here would be nervousness.
Now you can’t avoid being nervous, but you can look for an alternative to biting your nails, it could be chewing gum, drinking a cup of water or pacing.
Literally anything that stops you from chewing on your fingernails.
You can also choose to completely avoid situations that make you nervous completely.
5. Inform Other People about Your Decision
The best way to hold yourself accountable for any decision you have made and make sure that you follow through with it is to make sure that you inform someone about it.
Someone who will help keep you from straying away from your decision.
They can hold you accountable for your actions when you backslide and help you get back on your routine.
They could be anyone, friends, family, or even your mentors.
Conclusion
Setting habits are pretty easy; sticking to them is the tricky part.
If you ever wrote down a bad habit you needed to change, then half of the work is done already, because you already admitted that you needed to work on that area of your life.
And you have taken responsibility for it.
Now the only thing left is sticking to your decision and making it happen, discipline, consistency and motivation should be your most important values during this time.
It is important to know that, no matter how hard you try, you will relapse sometimes and backslide and that is perfectly normal, as long as you don’t remain there and as long as you keep trying.
You should be okay…