Here are some ideas that will help you break your bad habits;
1. Identify and cut down your triggers: If you play games when you’re bored. Try to keep yourself busy. If you play games at a particular time, then reschedule the time for something else. Identity the triggers which make you end up doing that bad activity, and then cut them down.
2. Choose a substitute for your bad habit: You have to think ahead of time, for the time you may experience bored or stressed. You have to plan, ‘what you will do instead of the old bad habit?’. Let take some examples.
What you will do when facebook calls you to procrastinate? (Example: write one sentence for work). What you will do when you have the urge to smoke? (Example: do breathing exercises)
3. Tell Somebody: Don’t keep it all to yourself. Tell others that you’re trying to stop a bad habit. This will create pressure because if you fail then it would be an embarrassment. This will help you to give better results.
4. Visualize Yourself Succeeding: Imagine yourself without that bad habit. Visualize the new identity that you can build. This process will give you the motivation all the way through.
5. Overcome negative thoughts: Don’t surround yourself with negativity. You can use the word ‘but’ whenever you do so…
- I always have bad grades, but I am improving day by day.
- I am a failure, but success comes from failure.
- I am fat, but I could get in shape within a few months.
6. Start: Use the tips and make them into practice.