CHANGING BAD HABITS

"Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with"

and "Bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with",

according to Brian Tracey, a well-known motivational teacher.

You may recognize that to successfully manage habit changes,

breaking bad habits may be required in order to

develop new ones.



Breaking bad habits takes at least 21 days. Of course, in

difficult cases, it can take as long as a year. Here’s an

example of the process of how to change an unhealthy habit

to a healthy habit. Suppose you’ve decided that coffee is not

good for you and right now, you drink coffee with sugar daily.

The new habit you would like to institute is

to drink herbal tea without sugar.



At first, it may be challenging to break the bad habit of

drinking coffee. You will have to use self-discipline for the

first few weeks but gradually it will get easier. Once

you are able to change the old habit to a new healthier one,

it will serve you very well. Habits are remarkable

because they don’t require thinking. You just “do it” for years

until you find yourself changing the habit again.