Habits have the potential to be a double-edged sword. If you aren’t in the habit of making progress in your life, you can bet that your habits are holding you back in some way. At the same time, the most perplexing aspect of habits is that, as much as they drive us insane, they also drive us and allow us to bypass our mind’s decision-making process. What often assists us in life can often serve to enslave us. And habits are a mix of the two.
We are habit-oriented
Some of us are more habit-oriented than others, whether by nature or nurture. Some of us have a habit-forming nature, making us more susceptible to alcoholism, drug addiction, overeating, over-functioning, or betting that we don’t have any negative habits. We have habits as a species because we are physiologically programmed to need them. Because we are habit-driven, the greatest method to replace a habit is with a new habit, just as the greatest way to remove a thorn is with another thorn. And if you get into the habit of improving your life, it will become a habit.
Break the bad habits
It can be just as difficult to break bad behaviours as it is to recognise them. Even when spectacular action is required, consistency of effort is necessary. Habits can’t be tossed out the window, wrote Mark Twain, but they may be enticed downward one step at a time.
Have the following conversation with yourself to assist you to deal with your habitual behaviour:
What is a habit that doesn’t benefit you but benefits others?
What effect does this have on your life?
What positive behaviour could you adopt to replace this bad one? And when are you going to start?
Our habits might help us, but they can also keep us imprisoned in the past, preventing us from moving forward. Habits can keep us from being who we might be if we keep doing what we’ve always done. Habits, like neurosis, are typically the result of our preferring the familiar but undesirable over the wonderful but unfamiliar.
How the human brain performs
The human brain prefers to route information through the same mental canals that it previously traversed. The longer we put off confronting and dealing with our patterns, the more trapped and blindsided we will become in life. This isn’t simply true for harmful behaviours, by the way. It holds for positive habits as well. What is the reason for this? Since: You had better like your strengths because you’ll be paying for them. To lessen the effects of routines in our life, we must approach each situation fresh.
We must not presume the moment or the person with whom we are in the moment if we want to reduce habits in our life. To break our patterns, we must stop assuming what is based on what has previously been. Consider making a difference in your life out of all the things you can do.
Habit- a routine of behaviour
Make brilliance a habit, and doing less will feel uncomfortable. A habit is a routine of behaviour that is repeated regularly and tends to occur subconsciously. Every habit, it turns out, begins with a psychological pattern known as a “habit loop,” which is a three-part process. First, there is a cue or trigger, that instructs your brain to enter automatic mode and allow behaviour to unfold.
The basal ganglion, which also plays a role in the development of emotions, memories, and pattern recognition, has been linked to our habit-forming actions by neuroscientists. In the meantime, decisions are made in the prefrontal cortex, which is located in a distinct section of the brain. However, if behaviour becomes automatic, the region of your brain that makes decisions goes to sleep.
When people are in the same surroundings, they will do automated actions like pulling out of a driveway or brushing their teeth, in the same way, every time. However, if they go on vacation, their behaviour is likely to change.
One of the reasons why vacationing is so pleasant is, that it allows you to break certain routines. Habits can be changed at any time in your life. But we also know that the greatest approach to break a habit is to understand its structure — that if you inform people about the cue and the reward and compel them to see those aspects in behaviour, it becomes a lot simpler to alter.”
Building a better future, one habit at a time. Wisdom has had a profound impact on me