Creating Positive Habits and Breaking Bad Habits

Positive habits can be very powerful in your life, as well as bad habits. So how can we increase the number of positive habits, and decrease the number of bad habits?

Positive habits are great because they can automatically help you to accomplish your goals in life, and make you healthier. That is the greatest quality of positive habits, they are automatic, you don’t have to think about them, and they lead your life in the direction you want to go.

The same, but opposite can be said for bad habits. They automatically take you in the direction you don’t want to go. Fortunately the steps to forming and breaking bad habits are simple, but that doesn’t make them easy to do.

Most experts think it takes 21 days to form a habit, or break a habit. So if you have the will power to do an activity for 21 days, or in the case of a bad habit, not do it for 21 days, you might be able to change your ways.

Another factor that goes into habit formation is the emotional intensity tied to that habit. For example, many people smoke because of how it makes them feel. Some people believe that they need a cigarette to relax; they believe it with their whole heart. For this person breaking the bad habit of smoking is going to be much harder due to the emotional attachment to smoking.

There are lots of other techniques available to make changing your habits almost automatic. You should harness the power of positive habits to take your life where you want to go and automatically accomplish your goals.

Luke Blaise