How To Eliminate Your Bad Habits

1. We all are overwhelmed by a bunch of useless information from advertising campaigns or random news updates. It's hard to get our life handled when our minds are fully occupied by these noises. Over time, many people have built up toxic habits that are killing their potential future.
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3. These things may include:
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5. Being a couch potato in the evening and watching garbage-filled TV entertainment instead of constructively investing in themselves with education.
6. Scrolling through Facebook, Instagram and other social media accounts instead of meeting real friends having real conversations in real time and space
7. Over-committing themselves to work and not taking time to rejuvenate
8. Gluing your fingers to the smartphones and forcing yourself to take in unnecessary information
9. These habits are addictive, that's why you're habitually repeating the same thing. With your repetition, they have been ingrained into your nervous system and it's hard to remove yourself from the routines.
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11. So can you still eliminate your bad habits?
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13. Fortunately yes, but it takes time and effort. You must first change your routines and environmental triggers. There's actually more of a connection between the neural side of your habits and the lifestyle factors than you might realize.
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15. The key to understand is that the routines and habits you have built up can become triggers. Thus, the moment you're left alone in the house, you might load up YouTube. It's that moment of your partner leaving through the door that starts firing that neural pathway that leads to the ingrained automatic behavior.
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17. One way to break out of those bad habits then is to remove those triggers and the associations. How do you do this? By changing your environment and by changing your routines.
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19. This is actually one of the reasons that drug and alcohol addicts are often taken to rehab - it takes them out of their usual environment and removes the triggers that can trigger those bad habits. Of course you're no addict, but a long holiday or just a change to your routine can make a difference.
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21. The second thing you must bear in mind is to making this transitional period easy.
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23. While you're in the process of changing your habits and routines, you should make sure that your new set-up makes it as easy as possible for you to succeed. If your goal is to work out in the gym more, than would mean joining a gym nearby and it would mean setting your gym kit out on the bed night before.
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25. You want to eliminate as many potential excuses on why you can't perform the new behavior as you can. So you should make the new behavior a no-brainer to perform in order to eliminate the old ones. Put these simple tips into you and have fun getting rid of the bad habits!