After reading the article and reflecting upon my own lifestyle, I would say that my good habits outweigh the bad ones. I am proud of myself for maintaining a healthy and active lifestyle, a trait that I attribute to my parents who have always instilled me a sense of discipline and dedication. However, I must acknowledge that I also struggle with some detrimental habits. To begin with, I am a perfectionist, a person who needs to maintain control over every aspect of my life. If things don’t go as planned, I find myself struggling with stress and anxiety. Also, I have a tendency to prioritize academic goals over personal relationships. This has often led me to feel disconnected from my loved ones, which deeply affects me as my friends and family are my entire world. Finally, I neglect the recommended eight hours of sleep, again, prioritizing my academic life over my personal well-being. Some days, insomnia prevents me from getting any sleep at all. Certainly, this is due to my apprehensive and nervous state of mind. Recognizing the need for change, this article has inspired me to find a way to address these bad habits. I believe that incorporating meditation into my daily life could help me gain better control over my thoughts and emotions. Perhaps this is the key to overcome these challenges after all. I better give it a try!
Having and creating good habits hasn't been an easy job for me. Unfortunately, I have more bad habits than good ones. However, I must admit that I have made a lot of progress during the last few years as regards new good habits.
One bad habit that I still struggle with daily is using my phone for long hours a day. Being tied to my phone has been such a problem because I leave aside more important things such as doing homework assignments. Currently, I'm using some app timers to help me realize how much time I spend on my phone. It has helped me a lot to use it less.
In addition, I always struggled with having a balanced diet. Eating unhealthy food was a real problem for me a few years ago. But now I'm starting to feel more comfortable eating all kinds of food and having a balanced diet. It took me quite a lot of time to feel this way and I had to get help from a nutritionist.
The advice which I find most useful from the article is to start small. Sometimes we want to create a new habit by forcing us to do something every day. For instance, some people want to start doing exercise by going 5 days a week to the gym, and then they end up quitting because they get tired fast. They should try and do exercise twice or once a week until they get used to exercising and then, they'll feel more comfortable and ready to attend more days.
Overall, I can say that I'm working on my good and bad habits and we should all be patient with ourselves when creating new ones.
Creating new healthy habits is quite a challenge, I believe. During these days in which we're rushing from one place to another and in which we want everything to happen as fast as possible, habits creation has no healthy place in society. Personally, when I want to acquire new and healthy habits I do my best to take every step to be able to continue with that habit for a long time and not to make efforts in vain. However, I'm not always successful and many times I end up giving up new habits. I think the problem is related to how anxious I am to see the result of the brand new habit. Clearly, resutls are not seen right after you take up a habit. Trying to get the resutls quickly leads to unsuccess and thus frustration. It takes a long time and great effort to create habits, so I think it would be ideal to take them seriously and slowly enough so as not to face unmet expectations.
Starting and sticking to a healthy routine is something that I have struggled with an infinite amount of times. In many opportunities I have started to do little healthy activities but failed to create a new habit, especially if it is related to doing sport or physical activities. More than once I stopped with a somewhat prolonged routine of short exercise after a couple of days where I had too much work or wasn’t feeling well. I have acquired small tactics that help me to not lose motivation when this happens, so I can start again. Tying exercise to an activity that I enjoy or regularly do, like the article says, has given me good results. For example, I would take a show that I want to watch and make it the “exercise show”, so I can only continue watching it when I am exercising on the treadmill.
Another big help that I found to create healthy habits is to write things down. I used to struggle a lot with chores, appointment dates, and school work that was left to the last minute, until I found out how much I love to make lists and cross out finished activities. Having everything laid out on a planner or a simple list on a notebook is really helpful when you are organizing your day, and crossing out one item of the list when it’s done gives me a delightful feeling of accomplishment. I know that there will always be a struggle, but finding this little strategies help me to continue and motivate me , so one day at the time, I think I can make it.
I’m at the teacher training college and I’m working a lot, so it’s really difficult for me to keep pace with the activities that my teachers ask me to do in my course of studies. Although I’m usually able to finish my tasks, I end up doing them at the last minute. As a result, I’m always tired and frustrated. That’s the reason why I wish I had the habit of starting my homework tasks the same day I receive them. Or at least, the day after that. If I achieve it, I’ll feel better with myself.
The article motivated me to carry out my responsibilities in due time, it encouraged me to build this healthy habit. But easier said than done! However, I’lll try to do so by taking up the suggestions mentioned there. One of them, which is really interesting and I think could help me, is to stack my habits. Experts say that tying a new habit to an existing one increases the chances of success. So if I do my homework every day after having breakfast (an existing habit) it’ll be easier for me to be consistent and achieve my goal. Hopefully I’ll make it!
I feel proud to say I currently have many good habits. The one I'm most proud of is, without a doubt, my skincare routine. I struggled with acne, oily skin and rosacea for many years, which not only hurt physically but also affected my confidence. After months of many dermatologist visits and antibiotics that had unpleasant side effects, I finally overcame almost all my skin problems. But it wasn't only my dermatologist and the red-colored pills that saved me. Responsibility, time, patience and perseverance played an important role in this journey. Having to wash my face and put on hydrating creams and sunscreen every morning was not easy at the beginning, and many times I felt tempted to skip those ten minutes that took me to follow all the steps. Now, I can't go outside without sunscreen on and I actually find those ten minutes very relaxing. Taking care of my skin hasn't only improved my skin but also my self-love and appreciation.
Right now, I'm trying to get into the habit of eating a healthy breakfast every morning. From Monday to Friday, I wake up every day at six. If I were to have a complete and nutritious breakfast, I'd have to wake up at least twenty minutes earlier. Lately, I've been resourcing to meal prepping. Cooking in advance saves me a lot of time and allows me to eat healthier. If I don't have the time to prepare breakfast beforehand, I try to at least take some fruit to school so as not to give up my attempt to eat breakfast every day.
Fortunately, I firmly believe that I have more healthy habits than bad ones. To say the truth, I would never have had such a healthy routine, if it wasn't for my mum. She always encouraged me to drink water every day, play sports and eat nourishing and healthy food.
Now, as a young adult, I carry on with everything that she taught me. For instance, I have never stopped doing sports and now I go to the gym every day of the week. After the gym I try to eat healthy food and sometimes this raises a complex issue since I love eating burgers or fries, both of them are my undoing! In spite of that, I try to keep up with my diet, which includes lots of vegetables and fruits!
Another habit that I have implemented recently is "meditation". I discovered that it really helped me to put up with stressful situations and reduce anxiety. What I do is to lay in my bed and listen to classical music or guided meditation.
Finally, I would say that I have built daily and healthy habits thanks to the enormous help that I received from my mother.
I could say that I have more healthy habits than bad ones. I drink water everyday, take a bottle of water everywhere I go and eat healthy food. However my struggle lies in integrating fruit into my diet. I've heard the "apple a day" thing more times than I can count, but building that habit? Really tough. I can’t keep up with the routine of fruit eating mainly because I have never been used to it. Despite repeated attempts to include fruit on my diet, I find myself in trouble between initial commitment and eventual quitting. I agree that we build habits the wrong way, we just made decisions all of the sudden and want to become successful at it but actually it’s the other way around, we should start little by little till it becomes a successful habit. That’s the issue, when I start a new habit like doing yoga, go swimming or eating fruit I find it hard to continue because I don’t do any of them regularly. I find the start small tip very useful since tiny habits will build on easier and more lasting habits in the future and that’s something I should put into practice. The tip “do it everyday” is hard for me because I’m not a person who has enough free time to practice a habit like doing exercise. I’d love to and I think I’ve made the mistake of not considering taking some time for myself - which is indeed necessary.
I consinder that I have more healthy habits than bad ones. I eat the necessary amount of veggies per day and I also have a very balanced diet, eating a wide variety of food but in a reasonable quantity. I have always struggled myself with going on a diet since there comes a time when I stop eating healthy, so I decided to go with a nutritionist about a year ago and it was the best decision I have made. She taught me to listen to my body and learn how to recognize when I'm hungry or anxious. That helped me to eat when I'm really hungry and not when I'm stressed or anxious. The nutritionist also helped me to concentrate not on the physical aspect but in how to take care of my body and build healthy habits that last in time. For example, I used to skip my breakfast and now I can't go out if I don't have my latte with an avocado toast. What's more, I didn't do any physical excercise and excercising is very important to lose weight and to have a healthy body. Now I do yoga and I go to the gym twice a week; I use the stairs instead of the elevator and I go to work by bike. Also, I drink at least 1.5lt of water per day and that is something that years ago I wans't used to.
All in all, I think that I've learned how to build healthy habits and that my bad habits do not affect my daily life at all. I've learned that my body is my temple so I need to take care of it since it is the only one that I have.
In general , I dare say that my good habits outweigh the bad ones. I respect the four meals of the day and I try to exercise regularly. But, my problem comes with the amount of food I get in some meals. That's why, some years ago I decided to go to the nutritionist to work on the quantity, the quality and also lose weight (I still do). She taught me some tips to implement throughout the process. One of them was to drink a glass of water before having breakfast. This habit helped me to control my digestive system. Apart from that, I started including one fruit plus a toast for breakfast, which is a good option to avoid eating more. By doing this, I tied a new habit to the existing one, which is “having breakfast”. Another tip that helped me reduce my anxiety, was to include snacks- such as nuts or almonds-between meals.
Well, I´m afraid to say that in my daily life not everything is good. As I mentioned before, I'm a person who loves eating well, not only healthy food but also junk ,such as hamburgers or chocolates or ice-cream. Whenever I feel anxious or nervous or bored, I eat; I eat a lot. Due to this, my nutritionist told me to work on an “Emotional guide” to control or find out the reasons or the situations that lead to overeating. So, I'm currently working on that since I want to feel at ease with myself and feel healthy. I think that “where there's a will, there's a will ''. That's why I´ll keep on working on healthy habits.
Changing bad habits isn’t as easy as one would like. Just a few weeks ago, my boyfriend and I decided to start a healthy diet and exercising more, since we were regularly eating unhealthy food and quite inactive. I found that many of the recommendations that the writer gives over the text -such as rewarding yourself and doing (the habit) every day- we had already put them into practice. Taking tiny steps is also important, because small objectives are quick accomplishments, which will motivate you to keep on. I wouldn’t dare say that I have more good habits than bad, since I am pretty awful at keeping up a new healthy habit, but I can safely say that once I’m over the bad habit I no longer go back to it. For example, I used to bite my nails (I know, it’s a nasty habit) until one day I decided that I should stop because my hands looked horrible. And I did it, up until now I haven’t touched them, except at certain times in which anxiety overflows (such as days before an important exam) and I go back to it just for a few days until I calm down. Regarding which habit I wish I had, I would say that I would like to be one of those people that feel the need to exercise everyday. I simply cannot bring myself to be it, but it’s something I’m trying to change.
Although I have several good habits, I still have to admit that bad habits are a heavy burden for me. While reading this article, one thing came to my mind: the unhealthy amount of time I spend on my phone. Frequently, I lose track of time while scrolling through Instagram, TikTok, and other apps. That is definitely a dangerous habit, as it doesn’t bring any type of benefit to my health. Instead of wasting time keeping up with the latest social media trends, I should be investing my time in developing better and healthier habits, such as exercising or meditating. Now that I know this article’s three tips for forming healthy habits, I will do my best to apply those concepts successfully. I found it especially interesting how a specific habit can be achieved by breaking it into smaller habits, and by repeating those little habits every day. Although making a new habit from scratch is not an easy task, these tips made it sound simpler. In the past, I would try an exercising routine and get frustrated because I couldn’t meet my goals or keep up with the routine every day. After reading this article, I realize that my goals can be achieved as long as I take those three tips seriously.
In general, my bad habits are related mostly to what I eat. Luckily, I have successfully broken some of them with specialist help from a nutritionist. However, I still make an effort to make right food choices. One of my bad habits was getting an unhealthy snack between meals such as cookies instead of fruits. Another one was eating too many carbohydrates when I was supposed to have vegetables in my diet. Some months ago, I realised that I could not consume that poor diet anymore and I decided to take advice from an expert in nutrition. She has helped me a lot during the process of changing my habits, and now, I have adopted better habits. I believe that seeking help from someone who knows much better than we do is a key decision, since she can explain the biological processes that go through our body and the consequences of bad nutrition. Moreover, she can suggest different healthy meals that are easy to prepare at home and those essentials for consuming a nutritious diet. If there is someone who wishes to discard the same bad habits as mine, I would strongly recommend talking to an expert and doing their best to change bad habits.
There’s no doubt that the Covid pandemic has changed the way we live in so many ways - including our daily habits. Nevertheless, I consider myself to be a healthy person because I’ve been acquiring good habits since childhood. I drink a glass of water when I wake up and I take a bottle of water wherever I go. I also include lots of vegetables on my diet and I do exercise three times a week.
The problem with forming good habits begins when we try to turn our lives upside-down from one day to the other. I agree with the suggestions the article mentions to build new habits progressively. In my case, I’ve made an unsuccessful attempt to start a new -ridiculously restricted- diet many times. The best and healthy way to make a change is to take the time we need and not to feel frustrated if we fail, especially at the beginning.
The article has definitely motivated me to break those bad habits I’m trying to break. The worst habit I have is not being a morning person. I hate waking up early, but the worst part is that I end up doing everything in the last minute and having to run to the places I have to go! So, I’ll try to do it slowly, waking up 10 minutes earlier each morning and adding a self-reward to help me form the habit.
I definitely must say that I have more bad habits than good ones. I can count the good habits that I have with the fingers of only one hand, which are three. One is that I drink a lot of water during the day and I do not drink sodas at all, I don't like them. I have to say thank you to my mum for this habit, she was the person who gave me water for lunch, dinner and every time I was thirsty when I was a kid. The other good habit I can remember is that I prefer walking to go to a place (when I have time, of course) rather than driving a car or taking the bus. The last one is that I always have breakfast and I really try to eat nutritious food to start my day the best possible way!
As the article points out, I have realized that I have failed to build a new habit every time I forced myself to do it in a very hard way and all of a sudden. It does not work like that! We have to give ourselves time and do it little by little, I totally agree with that!
I wish I had the habit of doing more exercise than just walking. I understand that I have to do it for myself and to have good health, but I haven't been able to build that habit, up to now.
I would say some of my best habits are eating breakfast everyday, having a balanced diet that includes plenty of fruits and vegetables and drinking a lot of water. However, I must admit that those habits were not built after making a bold resolution. I have actually acquired them because of two reasons. Firstly, my mom, who would give me a wide variety of vegetables during my childhood and would repeatedly -and rightly- insist on me having breakfast every morning before going to school. Thanks to that, those habits were included in my daily routine without me realizing it. Secondly, my personal taste when it comes to drinks. People tend to think I only drink water because I make that healthy decision every day. Well, the truth is that I do not like any other drink. I cannot stand how sodas taste and I do not like alcoholic beverages either.
I have tried to create other good habits and I agree with the author when he explains that sometimes we fail to respect the steps to successfully acquire a habit. I have tried to start doing exercise plenty of times. At first, I signed up for a gym to go to every day. Of course, starting a new habit from one day to the other is not so easy, so the very first week I felt frustrated at failing. Then I realised, as the author expresses, that one of the keys to acquire a habit is to start by tiny steps: starting exercising little by little and trying to find an activity that motivates me. That’s how I started dancing as a way of exercising.
I wake up, scroll through instagram or twitter while I brush my teeth. I go straight to the kitchen to get my favourite food of the day: coffee with milk and toasts with jam and cream cheese. Now, I’m ready to leave home and go to college, listening to my favourite bands on spotify. I have never thought of which are my habits until now. I don’t think that scrolling through any social media all the time is what doctors would recommend. There are times when I’m struggling to concentrate on my study material and I find myself wanting to use my phone just because I need to know what’s going on out there. I’d say that this habit, or “obsession” if you want, is something I must change from now on, because it is affecting me not only at college but also in other aspects of my life.
I know for sure that most of us try to create habits in the wrong way. In this article I've read: “starting with tiny habits to make the new habit as easy as possible in the beginning”. That is the secret: setting reasonable and realistic goals helps us to build new and healthy habits. Anyway, I’ve got to admit that taking a daily short walk is one of the most difficult habits to create. Since I’m studying all day long, I feel guilty if I leave home for an one-hour-break to do some exercise. After reading this article I understood I’ve got to start with those kinds of walks if I’m to start going to the gym, and also that I need some time to relax and go back to work with more energy than ever before.
Although I have plenty of good habits in my life, the amount of bad habits I bring along is to no comparison. Bad habits come along with sports, school, social life, basically everything. It’s also very hard to break away from these habits as you are so used to it. I can name plenty of habits I have my self. Whether it’s my bad habit of doing my homework last second, not studying for tests, or just not doing something to my full potential. Bad habits are also very easy to bring uptown as well.
I don't think that i have as many good habits as i have bad habits in my daily life, as i do not find that i spend my time wisely or find myself in a healthy place to be in. Honestly, i don't have that strong a willpower when it comes to changing myself for the better, and i find myself after everytime that i fail to successfully change my unhealthy habits like eating the wrong things or not exercising as much as i need to, everytime i fail i find myself in a deep state of hatred for myself and my lack of willpower to change.
I see all these transformation videos on youtube, where people become fit from being overweight, and i want the same for myself, but alas i cannot force myself to do the necessary exercise to lose weight or stop myself from eating terrible snacks that set me back in progress.
But I feel that if i had someone who would run the long road of losing weight with me, and strive to push me to my goals and him to his. Then i would be able to go out and jog a mile around the neighborhood and restrict my bad eating habits. This would be great, but unfortunately I cannot find anyone who is willing to do this alongside me, as everyone is already there or do not care about their shape like I do.
My Older brother went through it at about my age without anybody, but he is different, him and I, and he was able to push himself through the pain to reach his goal. Now, he is in the best shape of his life and has come in first in two separate 5K races.
I think I have more good habits and bad habits because I know I do a lot of good things.
I think I have more good habits than bad, but bad habits will always be there. Bad habits are hard to get under control, which is why people have them. Creating good habits is a difficult task as well. Good habits like eating healthy or working out every day can be done for a week, but keeping that up for longer, and making it a habit is very difficult. Having friends or setting reminders is also helpful when trying to good habits as it’s more than just your trying to remember.
My worst habit is procrastination. I tend to wait the day before to finish everything which is very bad for someone who's going to college and higher education. I think I have more positive habits than bad habits but I could be wrong. It also depends on who you ask because it's opinionated. Things that are categorized by good and bad are always opinionated by the majority. The majority who say that picking your nose is bad are correct because that's what the majority of society agreed on. The good habits that I believe i have are working out, eating healthy, and be kind to others.
I believe relatively I have more good than bad habits. For example, I workout almost everyday, I floss, I eat breakfast, etc. But I do face the problem of setting up new habits. Such as yoga everyday, mental health helping, etc. SO I believe that human nature is to focus on betterment of oneself or we wouldn't be having this conversation. In the end of the day, I think this article's approach of taking baby steps to form habits is really good because society is about how fast others can be and it shouldn't be that wa, especially if it's for your own health.
I think this is only partially effective, as each person’s good and bad habits stem from that person’s own definition of good and bad. Likely the hardest part for most people to drop bad habits is to first recognize that the habit is bad, otherwise they’ll have no drive to change. The trouble is most people don’t recognize their bad habits as being bad, as they’ve likely done these things for their whole life, without any sort of adversity. Only when there is a clear and strong consequence for a certain “bad” habit do people realize that they should make a change. This causes the methods mentioned in this article to only be partially effective in certain cases.
Taking things one step at a time or taking things slow are step one of many, to create a healthy habit. A bad habit I had for a while though was staying up way too late on school nights. This made it very difficult to get up in the morning and stay awake at school. A bad habit I have right now is that I have is to spend too much time on my phone. Looking at Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, my emails, whatever pops up on my phone screen and that needs to change too
Like everyone, I have good habits and bad habits. For me the hardest part of breaking bad habits is starting.
I am best at starting habits when the consequences are important. Several years ago I wanted to become vegetarian for health and ethical reasons. I quit that diet after a month because for me it was too difficult. Later I found out I had celiac disease and I now had to follow a gluten free diet. At first I thought it would be too hard and I would have similar results to my vegetarian experiment, but I was able to quickly follow my gluten free diet because I knew my overall health is more important than instant satisfaction. My health has greatly improved since my new diet and I find that incredibly rewarding. My tip for you is to not force a habit on yourself you don’t think you can handle.
I think that I have more good habits than bad habits. I used to do my morning "routine" and day in a random and unorganized way but I have created a set of good habits. Since I did this it has improved my organization and I have gotten more good habits then bad habits. I have looked at ways to add good habits to my life and they have allowed me to become better. I did this and it has improved my good habits.
With the power of the internet at our fingertips and immediate access to the world through our screens, it is not surprising that today’s instant gratification is changing the way in which people deal with their habits. In my experience, it has become increasingly easier to fall into the same bad habits without realizing it. A smartphone always within reach makes it easier to avoid an unpleasant mountain of homework, falling into the trance-like state of social media scrolling. A phone is both a tool and a temptation, but how do we maximize our time to use our devices for the better? As B.J. Fogg suggests, start small. Useful tools such as ‘screen time’ help track the alarming amount of time our devices have stolen from us. App time limits make it easier to come to the reality of the black hole that is the social network. At first, limiting the escape from reality that your phone provides is uncomfortable, these small steps may help reshape our mornings, and even our lives. The few cutbacks on unnecessary technology use may add up; hours per day adding up to new found months out of your year. While technology is helpful, changing minor habits of how we use our screens may just give us back time that has fallen through the cracks.
Taking things one step at a time or taking things slow are step one of many, to create a healthy habit. Personal I believe that the one tip that was the most useful was start with a couple small habits. Once you have mastered those move on to a slightly bigger goal or habit and it will be easier that way. As compared to jumping start into a huge almost impossible habit to master right away. For me, one thing for me to successfully practice would be not going o my phone once I lay down in bed for the night. To fix that unhealthy habit I can start by giving myself a smaller goal to only go on it for a couple minutes once in bed. One other tip I would recommended, would be allow yourself small victories in trying to create a new healthy habit. Everything does not have to be hard and upsetting when trying to create a new habit. You can allow yourself to be happy with what you have accomplished so far.
For the most part, I have more good habits than bad. I try my best to stay off of my phone and be productive; I work out twice a week, and practice all of my instruments every day. A bad habit I had for a while though was staying up way too late on school nights. This made it very difficult to get up in the morning and stay awake at school, so I started drinking a lot of energy drinks. Because I was consuming a ton of caffeine, it made it even harder to sleep. This habit was hard to break, but after a while finally did. I stopped drinking so much caffeine and although I was really tired, I began being able to sleep again. This resulted in me being happier and doing better in school, which was even more motivation to get more sleep. In order to break a bad habit, you have to really want to and focus on the benefits from doing so.
I think the way we develop our relationships and habits stem from the many different ways in which we are raised. Growing up if you are told to put networking as a priority (building friendships, helping others , etc.) then one would naturally be able to say they would be better at building relationships. However as time change, and the need for face-to-face interactions declines, lots of people are putting less priority on these relationships. People are becoming more independent, which leads to the problem at hand of the lack of building these critical relationships.
It takes 21 days for something to become a habit, and 90 days for something to become a part of our lifestyle. For many people, including myself, we have had bad habits ever since we can remember. Some examples of my personal bad habits include staying up way too late and procrastinating my work. Since I grew up with these habits, it is very hard to break them. I have tried to, but after a few days, I slip back into my old, natural ways. I find myself saying “I will never be able to go to bed early.And what’s the point it anyway?” at 2 in the morning.
This is the mindset we have when we try to beat a bad habit. Admit it, it happens to the best of us. We are hard on ourselves for not being able to stop doing something that we have been doing our entire life. Realistically, it is unreasonable to expect ourselves to wake up one day and just beat the bad habit. But, what if we approached it from a much more realistic standpoint? When we turn back to our bad habit, instead of just giving in, being patient and trying again in the morning. We know this will be a struggle for us, but we need to think of the end result. How much more successful, healthy, happy, etc we will be. Using the advice Ms. Parker Pope said, “the best way to build a habit is to tie it in with our pre-existing ones”, is just one of the strategies we can use to overcome these habits.
With a world surrounded by social media and news its so easy to instill bad habits because these platforms are fueled by negativity and less of the positive and helpful resources being shown.
I know I have a lot more good habits than bad and I try to be aware of my events from a day to day basis to make sure im holding a consistency of good habit. But it can change over time and may not be realized because the media is that majority of what people see day to day. Then, what's being portrayed can shift their vision and action without even knowing. consistency of a bad habit, like: procrastination, quitting on tasks, doing half the work, prioritizing your spending negatively, and healthy and mental negative choices that become unseen. Personally i've consistently been bodybuilding for over 2 years and because of the health awareness itsa builds has really made such a big impact on my habits because its made unhealthy habits a lot healthier and because i've built a consistency to accepting failures i've grown less likely to quit on tasks.
I think I have more good habits than bad, but bad habits will always be there. Bad habits are hard to get under control, which is why people have them. Creating good habits is a difficult task as well. Good habits like eating healthy or working out every day can be done for a week, but keeping that up for longer, and making it a habit is very difficult. Buddies can certainly help with starting good habits. Being able to check in with somebody to make sure you are both on the right track will keep you going. It adds a sense of responsibility, almost like your friend is depending on you and vice versa. I also think to make a habit stick, you have to focus your mindset around it. Wanting to succeed won't be enough, you have to hate to fail.
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In my opinion, I have more good habits than bad ones. I am constantly doing homework, working out, playing baseball, working my jobs, and trying to better myself as a person. From an outsider’s view, however, I am definitely seen as overcome with bad habits. Habitually, I am on my phone, looking at Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, my emails, whatever pops up on my phone screen. Or I am watching Netflix, staying up too late and eating cereal at 2 am on school nights. However, I see success as a person as having a personal sense of wellbeing - and that I have. I have some very bad habits, and I choose not to break them, but rather develop goods ones to counterbalance. A good habit is one that betters you, while a bad one is indulging in the things that are not always desirable. The most helpful tip, to me, was working it into your life. I would like to spend less time mindlessly scrolling through social media, and instead use that time running, or working, or studying. The way I could do this, and many other people could too, is by simply spending more time doing something while you are actually doing it - and productive, healthy things only.
I cant quantify all my habits to compare if I have more “bad” or “good” ones. I have a lot of good habits, that not only give me routine/stature to my day, but also bring about other benefits such as physical health. One of the best habits I have is, I exercise everyday, which brings the aforementioned benefits. That said however, I am able to recognize that I have a large number of bad habits, that affect my moods and actions greatly during the day. One of my worst habits is eating candy, not only does it affect how a physically feel during the day, but also how I am mentally, in terms of irritability and rationality. I think it is important to note that you pick up a lot of bad habits the same way you pick up good ones, more specifically when the article is talking about start small. “He suggests starting with tiny habits to make the new habit as easy as possible in the beginning. Taking a daily short walk, for example, could be the beginning of an exercise habit.” This can be looked at from the opposite perspective as well, smoking only on the weekends, something small, turns into smoking everyday, which in turn becomes into needing to get high to function. So it is very important to watch out for how much you let yourself do a “little” of a bad thing.
People need to have more good habits than bad because when you have good habits you can be a better person, people need to know that habits it is like a valance that people need in their life. For example, many people have a good habit to go to the gym in the morning and they say they feel full energy all day. People have another good habit that I think it would help many people in the world it is they prepare a good breakfast before going to work or whatever they will do and they feel better than just drink a coffee. In my life I have a good habit every morning I listen to a motivational speech it helps me during the day to feel good, and think even something is hard or new for me I would do it. Even though there are good habits many people also have bad habits. One example is when people waste food because they go to the supermarket and buy fresh products despite they still have it.
I think that I have more good habits than bad. One of the worse habits that I have is to spend too much time on my phone. Sometimes in families’ meeting everybody is talking, dancing, etc. while I’m on my phone. I have to eat something sweet in a day, this is a bad habit because I know that in the future it could provoke me diabetic. Despise I have a lot of bad habits I also have a good habits as I said when I started to write. Good habit I have is, when I woke up in the morning I always tanks God for another day. Other Good habit is that I consider myself as hygienic person, I have to clean my hands as much as I can. I’m a very organized person and I have to get all my stuff in order. I have a habit to drink a lot of water such is good to my health. One of the most important habit that I have is that I love readying books.
Everyone has bad habits, it’s only natural, like when I spend too much time on YouTube, procrastinating on assignments, all that stuff. However, not all habits people have are considerably “bad”. I listen to music on my way to school to wake me up, that’s not bad. I spend my time in after-school stuff surrounded by other people, whether I’m rowing, or rehearsing for a show, which isn’t bad, either. In terms of keeping a habit, that really depends on how often I feel like I need to do it, like getting up for school in the morning. You just sort of adjust to waking up earlier. That crosse3s into the tip I found most helpful: the whole “work it into your life” thing. If I could wish for a habit, it’d probably be to spend at least a few minutes away from technology, to clear my head, like a meditation sort of thing.
I would like to say that I have more good habits than those that are bad. Some of my habits I do consistently while others are more sporadic. It has taken me many months to years to develop these habits, both good and bad.
To me, good habits are those that make me happy, increase my physical and mental fitness, or keep me healthy. My good habits I have include: rarely eating candy, always brushing my teeth, exercising most days, keeping up to date with my family, completing my homework, studying for tests. These help me keep my days progressing in the right direction and keep me focused on the goals at hand.
My worst habit I have is undoubtedly the fact that I religiously eat chocolate. To me, chocolate is a way to take the stress off my mind after a long day of school or just life in general. I don't just stick to chocolate bars. I devour all shapes and forms of it including chocolate chips, cookies, chocolate covered fruits, and anything else that contains a small amount of the heavenly dessert. Although this is a physically unhealthy habit, it does help keep me mentally healthy so I guess it’s not that bad after all.
@Harrison Carter I completely agree with the fact that having good habits that are surrounded by health and fitness are so much more beneficial to our success cause it creates the mindset of accomplishment and succession and I agree that with the good habits you have over achieve the factor of your bad habits.
And personally if there's anyway to take away the habit of chocolate id highly suggest you look into apple cider vinegar as its vital to taking away the need for sweet food and as it is very good for your body all around.
I know I have a lot of bad habits, such as procrastinating on cleaning my car and doing my laundry, but I also have some good, I stay very healthy, whether it be working out, running, cycling, whenever I’m not playing hockey I always find another way to stay active and keep myself in shape, I also find it important to fuel myself effectively afterwards with food. For me it is easy to notice my bad habits, whether they be small or big in degree of change, but the problem is finding the best way to combat myself in order to make a change. For example, laundry and cleaning, as much as I tell myself to do it, when I get to it, I always tell myself I’ll do it after I get back from hockey or working out, but then I am tired and want to take a shower and eat so I tell myself I’ll do it later, and it is a repeating pattern. As much as I tell myself to stop and do it, my mind always directs me elsewhere.
As a human being, I have some good and bad habits both. My good habit is every day when I wake up; I drink water in empty stomach. I get many benefits from this good habit. It helps me to boost my energy level, prevent gastritis problem, makes skin and hair shinny. It also helps for dehydration. My bad habit is I do not do physical exercise regularly. I feel lazy to do that. For good physical and mental health we really need do exercise .I think I need to change that bad habit slowly. I make some plans to be regular in to the gym. Firstly, I will start the gym two days in a week. After some days later, I will try to increase the days in a week. I also plan that if I cannot go to the gym in a week I will do some free hand exercise at home. I think if we want to change some of our bad habits, we have to keep patience and motivation. At the first time, it will be hard to change the bad habit. However, day by day with hard working we can reach our goal and decrease the bad habits.
Honestly, I have many good habits, but I also have many bad bad habits. One reason is that I have a lot of work and go to college now. Every day I wake up 07:50 AM, pray a little, after take a shower, and brush my teeth, get dressed, and start my day. I think everybody has good and bad habits because everything in this life is a balance. Many people don’t know how to find it balance because no one follows the same line in their lives. Everybody should take time for each thing and put more importance about health. It is clear that what is better for each human are drink more water, eat healthy, and exercise. I would like to have these three complements in my life, but I am a little lazy to make exercise. It’s my problem.
I have more good habits than bad. One of my best habit is being there for someone when they are upset. I am good at building new and healthy habits because I know that sometimes I need to change for something better. I wake up at the same time every day. I want to walk for ten to twenty minutes than brush my teeth, take shower, and having a coffee/tea. The best way to break an old or bad habit is first to accept it’s bad. Then you need to do your best to stay away from the things that cause you don’t perform that habit like, for example I don’t want to eat fast food. I exercise sometime but I walk everyday twenty to thirty minutes. One habit that I would like to build is to express my emotions because I’m to be really quiet and having a hard time expressing what I want. I’m slowly working on this, but I would like to be perfect on this habit.
I have bad habits and good habits. I think I have more good habits than bad. One of them is that I am always late, and I don’t know why. Because my family are very punctual. But, it is something I have to improve it, a good habit that I have is go to the gym and eat healthy food, other good habit I have is I like to have my house organized. But I have been working to be on time in my classes but I fail, but I really need to keep working in that because I know it is a very important thing that have to improve.
I have more good habits than bad. One of my best habit is being there for someone when they are upset. I am good at building new and healthy habits because I know that sometimes I need to change for something better. I wake up at the same time every day. I want to walk for ten to twenty minutes than brush my teeth, take shower, and having a coffee/tea. The best way to break an old or bad habit is first to accept it’s bad. Then you need to do your best to stay away from the things that cause you don’t perform that habit like, for example I don’t want to eat fast food. I exercise sometime but I walk everyday twenty to thirty minutes. One habit that I would like to build is to express my emotions because I’m to be really quiet and having a hard time expressing what I want. I’m slowly working on this, but I would like to be perfect on this habit.
A year ago, I had more bad habits than good habits. I didn’t use to eat healthy, exercise, and sleep the right amount of hours. I’m trying to build more good habits. Right now, I am trying to consume less fried food, sugar, and processed food. I incorporate more vegetables, fruits, and water in my diet. My morning starts with a cup of coffee, a healthy breakfast, and a short walk. A cup of coffee gives me energy. A healthy breakfast like fruits, cereal or proteins gives me energy to start my day, and it doesn’t make me feel stock or lazy. A short walk everyday exercises my legs. I’m trying to build the habit of drinking herbals tea every day because it relaxes me, and it helps me sleep at night. I always go to bed late at night, and it affects me because I have to wake up early in the morning. I have been trying to have a better sleeping routine.
@Sharda SW It's awesome that you are making an effort to get rid of your bad habits. I'm also trying to pick up some good habits. I used to exercise a lot more and not I don't so I'm trying to work more physical activity into my schedule. Eating better is also on my bucket list. I've stopped snacking and tried eating more fruits and so far it's going ok. I wish you the best of luck with developing better habits! I hope we can both continue to improve.
There are some good and bad habits that I have in daily life. People try to practice good habits to become better for themselves but sometimes they forget about it and lose confidence. It happens to me a lot because when I went to high school, I always forgot to eat breakfast and instead I just ate in the afternoon. I knew it was bad for me not eating in the morning because I realized that it was not the right way, so I tried to wake up early to cook for myself. Then I didn’t have that bad habit anymore, and everyday, I get up to cook my breakfast. Not only I have bad habits but I also have good habits. For example, I organize things in my room, I clean the house and get my work done.
Having a healthy life must be important for everybody because we depend on our health to do many activities. If we have good health, we can do many things and feel active. Because I am not at home almost all day, one of my good habits is to prepare my own food at home instead of buying food out which we do not know how exactly it is prepared. On the other hand, one of my worst habits is not exercising because I am not at home, but I think this is not an excuse because I can even try it. Creating new and good habits is not easy for me because I can do it for 5 days in a row, but if one day I do not, forget about it, it is too difficult to return. So, to begin to have new good habits one of the tips more useful from this article can be start small with easy things which are small because over time these habits will be part of our routine. Finally, this article motivate me to have a good habit for example which is for me the most difficult doing exercise to have a life more healthy. I want to try and do not quit it.
So through my own experience, I came up with some easy habits that I should start doing to become better motivated, healthy, and successful during my journey. A great way to stay motivated and organized is by creating a checklist of things that needs to be completed each day .This is something I do to keep track of all of the daily tasks of college life. Exercise is very important and affects so much more than your health on just a physical level. Working out improves my mood and gives me the energy to get work done. I joined with LA fitness since I was living in Los Angles. Asking for help it’s a great way to learning to interact with adults and improve academic knowledge. Drink water, “woo, I love to drink water.’’ Keep a cup of water next to my bad before I sleep, one of my great habit I can say. Smoking is killing me slowly. I can feel it but I have nothing to do. I am so addicted on it. I tried to stop smoke but it’s so hard for me stay without it when I am stressed. I know it’s a big bad habit for me, I have to work on it. It is important to make a habit out of practicing productive study skills. Habits such as spacing my studying out over time, testing myself, and alternating where my studies are all examples of how to learn efficiently.
I can say that I have good habits. One good habit that I have is In the morning I do the same routine as always. I start to thank God for another day of life, I wake up with a positive mind that everything at school will be great and also in my work. Having good habits implies do not be negative with ourselves, and have a life full of satisfactions and a lot of wellness mentally.
To be honest, I would like to believe that I have more good habits than bad, but I do not have enough good habits because I make my own rules of good and bad habits only if it suits me. I used to think that drawing every night is a good habit. In effect, it is because it helps me to de-stress myself. Furthermore, the more I draw, the more I learn. On the other hand, it is a bad habit because drawing requires time to make a good drawing picture and often it takes me at least two hours of my sleeping day, and I sleep less than necessary. Also, I make exercises every morning before having a cup of coffee, which is a good habit but takes time and I arrive at the school at least eight minutes late.
I think that I have more good habits than bad .In reality no body is perfect. There are two things in life: bad thing and good. By myself, I used to practice more good habits than bad .First of all, try to practice good habits is a challenge that people need to become much better and more acceptable than unacceptable. I have my wife that she has a good habit. Every day she wakes up at 3:00 Am .Before she goes to work, she exercises, she studies and she leaves my home at 5:00 am to go to work at 7:00 am. For me, this a good habits that she has in herself .Secondly, bad habits come from of careless people or people are not interested to excel in socio life .Some of my habits are improving myself every day by washing some best motivational videos ,how to manifest abundance and learning good thing to be successful .
I think that I have more bad habits than good habits. Many times, I try to get better my bad habits because sometimes I am late for my class, every morning I get up late to go to school because always something happens. My good habit is I am good at sports that is the only thing I do well. However, one of the bad habits I am trying to break is not being on my phone when I am doing schoolwork because sometimes I check my phone in class. Another habit I wish to do is speaks good English in class and learning more things also speaks well to other people.
I think that I have more bad habits than good. I always say that I will eat healthy because I want to lose pounds. But, I think I created healthy habits the wrong way because when I almost achieved my goal I have bad nutrition again by eating fast food. Although I have a morning routine I drink a cup of coffee and relax for a few minutes before going to school. Another bad habit I have is always having my cell phone either listening to music or watching a video before sleep. These habits affect my life in school because I do not get enough rest to have a good performance. Also, it can affect me emotionally. Finally, I would like to have a habit to make good nutrition to achieve my goal, leave the cell phone out way when is not necessary.
I think I have more bad habits than good but it does not matter. A good habit that I have is be on time. When I was child, my parents taught me that punctuality is necessary in your life because it gives a good impression of you. Another good habit is listening to people. I like listening to people when they have a problem because I feel that I can help them and find a solution. A bad habit I have is to be always on the cellphone. I have tried to quit it but is very difficult for me because when I feel lonely it’s the only thing that is always with me and I can talk with a friend or with my mom. Another bad habit is to be a pessimistic person. I always have negative thoughts like “everything happens to me” or “I am not enough for anyone”. I would like to have more good habits in my life.
I have more bad habits than the good ones; one of my good habits is that I am very tidy. I do not like messy things, so I clean my room every day, which is something I really like to do. Also, one of the good habits is that my whole family, my parents, uncles and cousins meet to have lunch together and spend time with them. For example, some of my worst habits is the way of my alimentation. I do not have a specific time to eat, sometimes I skip some meals and eat a lot of fast food and soda, which I know is so bad for my health. When I get tired at home from school or work, I prefer to buy fast food outside than cook.
I do believe I have a balance of good and bad habits. One of my good habits are that I am a person who likes the organization in every place that I am because my mom taught me to be organized. I do not like cleaning other people’s messes. One bad habit that I have is insecurity. When I am doing something does not matter what it is, I am never sure what I am doing; I tend to get worry because I start thinking about it. This is the worst habit I have. There is a bad habit that I want to break and it is to spend less time on my cell phone. A few weeks ago, I started trying it and it has been working so far. I think that when we want to change something in our life, we can change it even if it takes time.
I have good and bad habits. Some good habits that I have are I exercise every day, sleep 8 hours, consume vitamin-rich juices and save money. We have to save money because we do not know what will happen in the future. Consume vitamin-rich juices help us to get the nutrients that our body needs. Some bad habits that I have are I sometimes eat fast food and I do not drink enough water. These habits are bad for our health because we have to eat healthy and drink at least 2.5 liters of water per day. That is why I started drinking more water and eat less fast food.
Honestly, I have more bad habits than good. One of the bad habits that I had is feeding, because no all the time I eat healthy. In my day, I do not have a schedule to eat my meals on time. When I have time in the morning sometimes I eat and sometimes I do not eat anything. This is a bad habit that I have. Another one is in my job is hard to eat healthy because work schedule are at night and that means I have to eat late, so until I get home I has to eat something fast. I do not exercise because I finished late from my job and I get home tired and the only thing that I want in the moment is sleep. I have to create good habits in my days to be healthy and stop buying junk food.
Be aware about bad habits that we have is the first step to remediate them. Some of them come from our parents and other have been acquired in the way. I could not say if I have more bad habits than good, but I have already changed things that affected myself. For example, kind of food I eat, lack of exercise, and sleep enough hours. Always my problem was try to do these changes in a drastic way. Generally, you quit something that is uncomfortable for you. In my opinion, you should implement these habits in progress way, so your body and mind can assimilate something new the better way. Other strategy that you could apply is try to find a balance between mind and body since mind has control about everything.
I think I have more good habits than bad. One of them is doing exercise, at least three times a week. When I do not have time to go to the gym, I exercise at home. I love doing exercise especially Zumba. Zumba is all about dance like salsa, merengue, bachata, regueton and more. Even though I am not a good dancer, but I love it. Five years ago I started eat more healthy. Eating more vegetables, fruits, good proteins and less carbohydrates. I had made these changes for me, but especially for my kids because it is very important for me that they have good habits for their bodies, minds and spirits. I know that create new good habits take time however we can do it. Something that have worked for me is repeat the habit for 21 days consecutive.
I have good habits but also bad habits. Sometimes I think I should have change my bad habits, especially with my diet because I love fried food and I know that it is not healthy. I feel it is not easy leave that. Because all my life I have eaten fried food. I have some healthy habits. In my house we do not drink soda or juice, we try to just drink water and we avoid consuming sugar and salt. I do not go to the gym but sometimes I exercise or take a walk before dinner. Every day I try to do the best to get new good habits. It is not really easy to do but if we intend I know we will achieve it because good habits are good for our health.
Changing your bad habits to good habits isn’t easy because there are many things that can get you to come back. I have tried to have a good habit much time such as exercising my body every day but I always failed. I have done exercise two or three days in a row but on the fourth day I get tired and I quit. Eating healthy is another good habit that I have tried but I have failed too. I think that I have more bad habits than good habits. One of my good habits is to arrive in places early, for example, every day I get on time for my class. One of my bad habits is that in the afternoon I don’t do anything. I have wanted to change my habits, but always I come back to the same thing. I’m not proud of it so I want to change it.
Keeping good habits consistent and pushing bad habits away is much harder than it sounds. For example I try to engage is some sort of exercise everyday whether it’s playing basketball or lifting I like to stay active. Sometimes if I have a big test the next day or a lot of homework, I will disregarding my exercise for that day so I can study longer. It doesn’t sound like a big deal but everytime I skip a day of my routine, it’s harder to get back into the next day. It’s inevitable to have bad habits at some point in your life but i find the easiest way to avoid them is to change your mentality and turn them into good habits. For example I struggle with procrastination but I have altered my mindset so that I view procrastinating my work similar to that of taking a day off of exercise. Soon, getting homework done fast will be a good habit of mine and fit into my routine opening up more time for other activities and free time.
Having three kids, a husband, going to school and taking care of many things made my life move really fast. In many cases, I have to take the easy route in terms of eating. And I have no free time to start exercising. Thinking about it, I realize that I have only one healthy habit… buying mostly organic food for my house. I put a lot of thinking into the quality of the food that I buy for my family. Buying healthy ingredients is becoming more affordable, but I’d pay the extra price if necessary. I try to cook the things that my family likes when possible, but I make sure that I use the best ingredients. In terms of what I eat. I do eat at home when possible, but if I were in a rush I would buy food outside, most of the time it is not healthy. When I look around in Queens, healthy food options are scarce. Eating healthy is a synonym with eating at home. When I put myself to try and improving what I eat, I always fail. I definitely need to work on not quitting and creating a habit of eating healthy.
Old habits do indeed die hard. We’re born as creatures of habit, chained to our daily routines. The sun rises and falls on its own accord. Time doesn’t stop and wait for us. Our brain copes with this cycle by creating habits to lessen the stress of decision-making. It takes quite a bit of practice to break us out of our bad habits and routines, but sometimes, doing so can be for the better.
I’ve had trouble in the past with procrastination, and breaking that habit has been a tough journey. Most nights, I’m drowning in homework and plagued with the inevitability of an upcoming test. Unsurprisingly, putting those things off is more often than not the more desirable alternative. I’ll admit that I still procrastinate every once in a while, but I’ve definitely gotten better. The most effective strategy that I’ve found that helps me to focus on my work is to remove any potential distractions. Whenever I sit down at my desk to start my homework, I use the ‘Downtime’ setting on my phone to turn off all of the apps. This has helped me many times and has drastically increased my work ethic, improving my overall performance in school. Switching out bad habits for good ones is a challenging process, but it can have great rewards in the end.
@Skye Solomon I have the same bad habit of procrastination. I rather sacrifice my sleep and work late into the night rather than working in the daylight. Working at night there are no distractions, no one to talk to. Just you and the pile of homework that you haven't done. Procrastination also just heightens my stress which is not good, but I still do it.
This year has been an eye-opener. If I procrastinated I would have drowned within work and extra-curricular and I would have no time to relax and have my own time. In the second semester, my workload increased by a drastic amount and I wouldn't get home until 9 pm. This forced me to take my spare time not scrolling through Instagram or on Snapchat but doing my homework. I started prioritizing and blocking out my time for homework or family time or just free time.
@Skye Solomon I have a bad habit of procrastinating as well. I have procrastinated since I was assigned to read for 15 minutes in kindergarten. Last semester I took an AP history class, and it was more work than any class I have taken before. I would wait until 2 or 3 days before an important test to study and end up drowning in the unknown content and stress. Once I finally made myself study earlier, I found myself getting better grades and not feeling quite as stressed.
I don’t think I broke my bad habit altogether though, as I am writing this comment 3 hours before it is due and I still have lots of other work due tomorrow that I haven’t started yet. But since my track season is starting back up, I will need to prioritize doing my work when it is assigned to maintain a healthy sleep schedule.
The good and the bad. Keeping my habits under control is definitely a balancing act. I tend to feel so ashamed for my bad habits, the ones that especially come out when I’m having a stressful or hard week, or I’m tired/hungry. But then I try to remind myself that just like my good habits, they’re breakable. I’m human, and every human is bound to have some not so good habits.
When a big race or hugely important test day comes around, I’m more aware that my bad habits such as anxiously checking my phone every minute to distract myself from all of the stress, or biting my nails a ton will happen. It’s hard to stop it, habits are linked to the way our brains our wired and how we try to cope with certain areas of our life. I do hope that I can learn to give less energy to my bad habits, as to ensure that they don’t escalate in the future.
I’ve noticed that my good habits can sometimes almost give way to my bad ones. I’m incredibly organized and have OCD, and although those things can benefit me a lot when it comes to school, in other aspects of my life they can lead to more anxiety and harm than benefits. Having good habits is a part of what makes each individual human so unique, it truly is a core part of each person’s identity and nature. Giving energy and allowing your good habits to occur more often that your bad ones could be a great way to break bad habits altogether.
@Sadie Dunne There is a big difference between my my weekend and school day routines. On weekends, I sleep late due to staying up late, snack through the day as opposed to eating three distinct meals, and am overall more lazy and less productive. On school days, I am forced to crawl out of bed early in the morning and go to school. I am on a normal meal schedule and am more productive mostly because I am forced to meet deadlines.
Despite my slugish weekend schedule, I have managed to develop a habit of exercising every day. This habit was formed by a random spurt of motivation and has stuck with me. I have a whiteboard in my room where I write down my daily schedule and notes to myself. I make goals and check them off. I believe that this has played a vital role in developing this healthy habit into my life. I have also started drinking more water and am in a good habit of doing that to improve my health.
On the flip side, my most unheatlhy habit is watching Youtube videos on my phone. In addition to being a time suck, watching my phone makes my neck hurt and I wonder what my airpods are doing to my health. I like sports videos and often find myself distracted and procrastinating by watching my phone. I don’t think I’ll ever stop watching videos as they are my way of unwinding. But, I’d like to work on limiting them and using my time better to either be more productive or to get more sleep so I’m more focused and alert.
I believe I have more good habits than bad. I have this bad habit of sweeping assignments under the rug. I wish it were procrastination, because then I would actually get something done. But I’m trying to turn that around, as we speak. I think the best tip from the article is doing it everyday. I read somewhere it takes 28 days to make a habit stick, and this just verifies the notion of sticking with it. I think the hardest, for me, to successfully practice would be starting small. We build habits to get closer to our goals and esteem, but we often want results fast. I personally have had to learn to start small, and really take baby steps towards particular areas.
I would agree with this editorial because many of us try to start eating healthy but never get to it. We get into the mindset that tells us we can't do it. But with a little adjustment to our habits, we can turn them to better.
Habits take a lot of time to make. Over the last year I’ve tried many ways to try to start working out regularly such as one of the 100 day challenges or an insanely hard workout routine (all of which I eventually gave up on after a couple days). Last month, I found a workout that I can easily do in half an hour and can do at home so it makes it easier to do and I can work it into my very busy schedule. Easing into a new habit means that it doesn’t really affect my schedule that much; I complete my new habits without messing up everything else I want to do in a day.
Make changes in the life be a desicion very important for each person because the people have good and bad habits. The people have good habits such as good eating habit, make exercise,habit for reading book, etc. The people have bad habitssuch as sedentary life, missy exercise, alcoholism, drug, etc. When the people have bad habit put in danger their life for usually, they sick of sedentarism and depresion. The people have good habit help physically and mentally. Now that we are learning english must have habit to read book and watch tv only in english this way can us learn more quickly the languagues. The people have depression be better if they have to busy the mind. It is true, we have very habits of routine, such as brush of teeth, eat, make food, chore in house, but people needs habits that getus of the routine. When I live in Ecuador, I have a good habit. I went every day at gym. I felt good but I went at New York, I miss this habit and now it is hard to come back but it is not impossible
In this world is inevitable create habits some are bad and others good. This years I decide change some bad habits that I was. I start with a pray and say “Thanks god, Thanks universe for a day more for realize things for became a better person”, this is my first habit in the day before I leave my bed; when you realize this habit all days have a good days and all is well for the life. Then, I realize my things of the routine. I have the habit in the morning of speak with my Alexa about the weather and practice my English with it. Also, I change my form of eat and I eat healthy now, for me no is a diet is a new style of life, I create a new habit for my life and my body and my soul change. All in the life is changes and you are the unique person who decide if you create habits for obtain a better life in this word. For obtain a habit you need to realize some for 21 days, your brain receive a command and day per day you realize this habit without some inconvenient.
In my opinion, having a good habits helps improve your life in different ways. Depending of the type of routine you practice this can also be a lifestyle as you change or get used to and become part of yourself. Also including habits about yourself, health is more important than any habit in your life this influences a lot on physical and emotional level. If we talk about health routine influence a lot to have a healthy life there are many ways like going to the gym eat well do yoga all these types of habits are good to have a better performance.
In life, we have habits we take from our parents and others by growing in society. All of us in this earth have a good and bad habits. There are habits which are on a higher percentage than other , whatever there are good or bad and as awkward as it’s can be , people will able to deal with . For me , I think I have more good habits than bad because usually I live in group and people always tolerate me and they can’t stop saying me that I’m a kind person . First of all, the things that allow me to deal with everybody it’s because I’m a friendly person and I respect the intimity and ideas of all my friends and neighbors ,families , friends and strangers . I learn how to understand and respect then. I know I have some bad habits but they not going to to destroy any of my friends. In me, good habits will more influence people because I love all my friends, family and classmate. I’m so helpful.
We all have good and bad habits. Bad habits are what we want to eliminate, because they are destructive and prevent us from reaching our goals. However, it can be a real struggle to free ourselves from bad habits. Habits are form, which even lets you reach a particular goal. In most habits, they are form involuntarily and unconsciously. Habit must be a factor that helps us reach our goals. It is good to know what you want for your life and to have goals gives you a sense of direction and purpose. However, we must not allow bad habits to lead us to defeat. We must try to organize our time well and improve our activities.
Create or return good habits that you don’t have is very difficult, while more time passes we lost a lot goods and bad habits. Is more easy create bad habits than goods because the routine and the extra effort often discourage many people top continual. Everything depend the person and the circumstances. When I was young I had a lot good habits but now I can complete all habits for the time, circumstance, and enthusiasm. But have new good habits is no impossible we can doing something good for a short time and continue liter, or heat fruit every day and the end of the day we can see good differences in our life.
If you’ve ever developed a bad habit, then you know how difficult habits can be break especially when it became part of your daily routine. The most effective way to change behaviors and the characteristics that make a good education program. A long time ago, I have bad habit and its too much sleep, gradually it was a habit for me. My hard work and determination I overcome it. My advice for them who have a bad habit don’t develop a bad habit inside your body and mind.
After I read this article I can recognize that is true many of us are trying to build good habits but in bad way for example many people wants to look good and first thing we are doing do not lo eat a lot of food and even just have two meals per day. It is a bad habit that we should leave back, intended to plan a nutrition diet convenient and to go to the gym together every night after the dinner is other excellent habit not just for your weight and mental health even to share it habit with our family and friends. Perhaps we should organize better the time to manage our routine and we could to put priority in enjoy the life. Sometimes I tries to change my lunch time but my job is so complicated to keep a routine which let me manage my time, I am seeking a new joy to reach my goals about the healthy and family. I hope it happen soon.
I think I have more bad habits than good. Although I try to change bad habits, like sleep earlier, I found myself sleeping late again in few days. I do not think I made a bold resolution. The last time I tried sleep earlier I was reducing the time I was awake little by little, however I did not get a great result. Nevertheless that experience, I think most of the time we only try to change bad habits in a bold resolution because something is worrying us or something bad happens to us. However, I also have good habits like pray every morning and night. The way that I got build this good habit was connected them with brush my teeth in the morning and night.
Generally speaking, bad habits dominate my life. Ritualistic behaviors I've established in the evening prevent me from accomplishing what I need to get done on a day to day basis, and stunt my work habits. Of course, I'm talking about excessive guitar practice and retro game emulation. It's not all bad, however. I've taught myself to rise at a fairly regular time, and I workout in the morning for a good amount of time (anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour). In general, my morning habits have strengthened my abilities to perform in the morning hours, obviously making the first few periods of the day a little more manageable. Outside of school, my workout habits ensure I don't have to face unwarranted spurts of body dysmorphia. A relatively capable body is a nice side effect. When I create new habits, however, the process is a struggle. Consistency is a trouble area all around in my life, so establishing new autonomic behavior requires some serious willpower on my part. This is most likely due to the fact that I rush into habitual behaviors and don't give myself enough time to reinforce the habit in the first place. I've never been big on establishing huge habits, so I have no concern in that regard. This is, ironically, what I found most informative from the article. The concept of breaking things down makes sense to me, logically, and seems like something I'd like to apply to my life. Breaking bad habits comes down to my passionate hatred for that behavior, and need to change.
I think that I have more bad habits than good. A habit that I appreciate the most is wrapping my earbuds when I am done using them. I’m glad that I have this habit because the next time I use my earbuds, I know that they aren’t tangled. This is probably not that special of a habit, but before this year, I had an extremely bad habit of just leaving earbuds and cable around or in my pocket causing them to tangle. I was able to solve this bad habit by taking the time to try to wrap them every time after use. Then I got used to doing it and I do it all the time now. In the past 2 years, I was trying to work on improving my handwriting and I think that my handwriting has really changed since then. A bad habit I’m trying to fix now is to remember to make my bed every morning. So far, I think I am doing well trying to fix this bad habit, but there have been multiple times where I forgot to make my bed. I am also trying to fix my bad posture.
I believe I have many more bad habits than good habits. Although I have some good habits those good habits are plagued with procrastination. If I am doing a good habit I will procrastinate it off like reading or studying. Once I find a good book I will not procrastinate as much but I still will. If I am studying particularly on the computer I will play on the computer further wasting time I could have used to study for a test. Sometimes my good habit of reading will turn into a bit of a bad habit because it will get in the way of me studying. After all, I want to read “one more chapter”. I am trying to limit how much I use my phone but after reading this article I figured out I was being too drastic on how I was going to limit myself I wanted to drop my daily average down from about five hours to two hours now I will set my limit to four hours which in my opinion is still too much time wasted on my phone being unproductive. I am not sure how I got so addicted to my phone but it has become an issue that affects how productive I am but I will try to use this bad habit to lead to better habits such as using my phone to stay well informed and use my phone to be productive rather than unproductive.
@Mustafa Elabd I agree I think phones are probably the number one bad habit for everyone especially in this day and age. I think they definitely are useful and can give advantages but I think a lot of people simply waste time by just scrolling on there phone (myself included). I understand checking social media and seeing what your friends are up to but I also think a lot of things on social media are completely pointless and people spend a lot of time just scrolling for no reason when they could be getting work done or at least doing something they could benefit from.
I have always tried to practice only good habits, however, the bad habits are harder to keep away. I would say that overall I have more good habits than bad habits, and the bad habits that I have are mostly ones that I don't know how to control or fix yet. For example, my positive habits include, eating healthy for the most part, exercising at least three times a week, and keeping up with all of my school work to achieve straight A's. I am also weirdly self aware so that helps me out tremendously with recognizing how to maintain good habits or how to let go of bad ones. However, I do have some bad habits like, getting overly annoyed or angry at the little things that I can't control, and trying to "parent" my little sister. I have trouble with letting these bad habits go because I for one, have trouble with expressing my emotions and I "parent" my little sister because I am just trying to help her out because I care for her. These are habits and issues that I can easily fix if I focused on them more or got advice on how to quit them, but overall I would say that my good habits outweigh my bad habits.
I think that most of my habits are good. For instance, I try to work out and go for runs and stuff every week. I also practice stuff like baseball and basketball every week. As far as my bad habits go I will basically do certain things to be comfortable. I think that this can be bad because I will chew on my shirt collar or fiddle with my hair and hands. I have successfully broken many of these bad habits though and they weren’t very hard to break. The only habit I had trouble breaking was sucking my thumb. I sucked my thumb up until the end of first grade. It was really hard to stop because my thumb would unconsciously go into my mouth. This is ho habits work: you get so used to doing something you just do it without thinking. It’s like a behavioral addiction. That’s why the most successful way to break a habit is to just concentrate on stopping it and eventually you won’t be used to doing that thing anymore. Even though it sounds very cliche, If you put your mind to it and just focus on not doing something it is possible to quit. The same goes for starting new habits. Just keep it in your head. Whether it’s from setting reminders on your phone to having a friend remind you. If you can remember every day then eventually it’ll come naturally.
Although I do have some good habits, I feel like I have way more bad habits. Lately my life has been pretty crazy and I've been dealing with a lot over the past couple months. I do believe the things I'm dealing with have led me to more bad habits. I'm really bad about procrastinating especially with so much going on. But I know I need to work on that because if I do keep procrastinating and waiting till the last minute like I do more things will just start to keep piling on until I can't handle all of it anymore. So I am working on how to better manage my time and have better work ethic and better handle my responsibilities.
I would say I have more bad habits than good. I'm a mess. But I'm working on myself. Since the beginning of this year, I've been making little changes in my daily life yo better myself.
Unfortunately, I have more bad habits than good. Don't get me wrong I have some good ones which are, turning my work in on time and keeping my room and items clean. My bad ones include; tending to procrastinate doing my work in the free time I have and staying on my phone. My phone is literally my weakness. I push things off when I'm on my phone. I always give myself a time limit and when the time comes I'd push it off saying, "5 more minutes". Next thing you know, it's time for bed. Another bad habit is biting my nails or shaking my leg. I tend to do these things if I'm nervous, anxious, or over thinking. I wish to break these bad habits.
What habits do you wish you had? Why? Is there one single habit you would most like to build or break? Does reading the article motivate you to try now? What tips and strategies would you employ to optimize your chances for success?
One big habit I could like to start exercising more because I would like to shave off a few pounds, and just become a healthier person. I also, want to break the habit of procrastination, because it has starting to influence my grades, the article didn't really motive me much; however, it was well written.
I have broken a habit before which was pulling out strands of hair behind my ear. A few years back when I had a mini afro, I would randomly start pully out strands of my hair whenever I got distracted or bored. I never really had a problem with it because my hair grew faster than that of my siblings. I eventually got a bald spot behind my ear and I had to cut all my hair off. Losing my hair never bothered me because it helped me stop pulling out my hair and I'm happy that I was able to stop this habit and avoid any further damage to my hair.
In order to build a habit, you must be determined. Personally, I have tried many diets exercise methods, but after a week or so I fall off. It is not that that I am lazy though, it is because I always have too much on my plate. When I first wake up I always brush my teeth and feed my dog. This is an important start as just doing these simple tasks makes me feel, in some way, accomplished. Starting the day with something that I did right gives me a sense of success. Although they may be small tasks, my attitude for the rest of the day is constantly bright. I wish that I could build a healthier lifestyle; this includes dieting and exercising. I feel that when I build this habit, I will be a lot happier as a person. I have many bad habits that drive the people around me crazy: I always shake my legs, bite my nails, and recently I spend too much time on my phone. I know that I could overcome these habits if I put my mind to it.
As a human, we all naturally have habits. Although, I believe I have more bad than good. I am really bad about procrastination, although I naturally wake up early and have a strong drive to work hard. I think if i put a higher priority on my bad habits, I could break them, but because I can make it by without change, there a lack of drive.
Being human comes with having good and bad habits. I do have a few bad habits I wish I could change. For example I bite my nails everyday when i'm bored or stressed. Its a habit I wish I could stop for sure. I also tend to bite the insides of my mouth when i'm thinking or stressed about something. Along with those bad habits I do have good ones such as putting my seat belt on everytime I get in the car. A habit I wished I had would be working out more. It would help with soccer and me being more fit.
One major bad habit that I have is procrastination, I tend to say I'm going to do some and I end up doing it days later. I also struggle with anxiety, so most of the time you'll probably catch me playing in my hair, I do it so much I didn't realize it became a habit.
I think that having habits throughout our day can help us to function better as the day goes on. I believe that my good habits do outweigh my bad habits. Throughout the day I have normal routines and tasks that I do regularly. For example, every morning I wake up and make my bed so that I start the day off with completely a task. It's a simple task, but it helps to get my day started off with the right mindset. After I get up I make a smoothie and eat eggs and oatmeal for breakfast. Then, I take a shower, brush my teeth and get ready for school. After school I usually begin homework. A bad habit that I have is that sometimes I tend to procrastinate on doing my homework and I don't get it done until later in the night. After I finish homework, I go to the gym everyday to workout. Another bad habit that I have is that I usually watch YouTube on my phone before going to sleep and I tend to stay up late and not getting enough sleep. All in all I feel that my good habits and bad habits make me who I am, but I do want to work on overcoming my bad habits to become more productive throughout my day.
In general my habits are not all that bad. In fact, over the years my habits have turned into more of a daily routine even the bad ones. These habits help my day flow smoother. I couldn't imagine my life without my habits. Some examples of my good habits include drinking lots of water, limiting my soda intake, and running daily. Some examples of my bad habits include cracking my knuckles, procrastinating, and spending too much time on my phone.
I believe that I mostly have bad habits, like my sleep schedule, my screen time, and etc. My sleep schedule is really border-line insomnia. I go some nights where I'll sleep maybe 3 hours a night and sometimes I won't sleep at all. I think it's due to stress or worrying about stuff such as incompleted assignments and possibly school the next day. It has also caused me to take naps straight after school when I should be doing something like homework. Sometimes, I'll even end up doing my homework late hours into the night because of this. Another, problem I have is the amount of time I spend on electronics at school it's not much of an issue, but at home I spend over probably six hours a day on a device watching netflix. I think my habits If I work on them possibly could be fixed, but like many people I struggle with breaking these habits.
Personally I have had bad habits in the past that have slowed my ability to accomplish tasks such as in particular procrastination. While I have struggled from this often I have been able to successfully take a step in the right direction. In the past I was addicted to watching Tik Toks and after I released how much time I truly spent on the app I immediately deleted it. While I still struggle from procrastination on the daily, I still work to try and fix the problem.
One of my most challenging habits to break is managing my time. Most of the time I make up excuses for not wanting to do something like doing my chores or starting on homework. I prioritize my social life, sports, and school but it gets overwhelming trying to put everything into a time slot. I wish I could form the habit of managing my time better or at least not procrasinate as bad as I do. I'm working on trying to better myself to be more self sufficient. My parents motive me to time manage so I'm not as stressed. I'm striving to time manage better by setting reminders and timers. I hope these tiny actions become consistent patterns.
My god habits outweigh my bad habits. My bad habits are pretty minor. My good habits are that I drink a lot of water and go outside a lot. My worst habit is biting my nails.
I have more good habits than bad. Im am pretty good at building habits, and like the article said, i do stack habits. One habit that i want to build is to go for a run every morning. I bite my nails and i want to break that habit
What makes a habit a habit? Is it the repetitive action of doing the same thing over and over again uncontrollably? Thats how I would chose to define it. I am a strong believer that breaking habits or not breaking them is a state of mind. Every human has the willpower to overcome a habit, we just have to make a habit of it. Too many people make excuses, and I am most definitely guilty of this. But regardless of how big or small the habit is, it can indeed be broken. If we shy away from breaking habits what does that mean, it means that we are letting ourself be controlled by a deep part of our mind. The mind is a complex puzzle, habits are simply an example of how our mind can control us without our knowing.
I am basically made of bad habits. Biting my nails, cracking every bone possible, procrastination, constantly changing my hair for no reason, the list is endless. I really wish I could stop, but I just have really bad anxiety and it doesn't take much to stress me out. I use them as a sort of coping method. It just takes a certain amount of will power to stop, but when you've been doing it so long it becomes a reflex.
A habit that I wished I had would definitely be working out more often, I would like to be prepared for my upcoming cheer season I just can't find any motivation to do so. One habit I would like to break would be either bitting my nails or sleeping in. I do both of these quite often, which is definitely not good for me. Reading this article has shed light on how to break and build a habit, like starting small for example. Just setting my alarm an extra five minutes every day can help me wake up a little bit earlier each day. Even for biting my nails, I could set a reminder to remind me every time I get on my phone to not bite my nails.
I have a lot of bad habits but there is one that tends to come back and bite me more then others. Something I have struggled with since I started high school is procrastination. I tend to wait till the last minute to study for test or to finish a project and I'm the type of person that really wants to get the best grade possible so I find myself getting stressed out a lot. I find myself up during the early hours of the morning doing school work that I just couldn't bring myself to do. I'm currently trying to break this habit by studying every night and finishing my work days before its due.
A habit I wished I had was to be able to focus and study for school. I wished I didn't get too easily distracted or zone out during class because it's a negative impact on my grades. I would like to break the habit of not studying and preparing myself for tests. This article made me think about all my good and bad habits, and the habits I would like to break as well. I'll make study guides and have my classmates hold me accountable.
I think my good and bad habits are equal in terms of quantity. I think my best habit is how and when I study, which has only developed recently, and my worst being my water drinking habits. I don't know why, but I just refuse to drink water regularly even though the habit has been enforced on me since I was two. But getting back to the topic, I think the two don't affect my life negatively, nor do my other habits. I feel that I'm well rounded and have a good base to work with, but I can definitely improve and develop healthier habits. I think my good and bad habits are equal in terms of quantity. I think my best habit is how and when I study, which has only developed recently, and my worst being my water drinking habits. I don't know why, but I just refuse to drink water regularly even though the habit has been enforced on me since I was two. But getting back to the topic, I think the two don't affect my life negatively, nor do my other habits. I feel that I'm well rounded and have a good base to work with, but I can definitely improve and develop healthier habits.
One of the more difficult thing for one person to do is break bad habits. This is the case for me. Not only is breaking bad habits the issue, making good habits is another problem. With that being said, there are some healthy habits that I do have, and they are, constantly being active throughout the week, keeping up with my work and avoiding procrastination. These are crucial things that to me define success. Acquiring these habits was not easy. It takes initiative in order to make a change or keeping things going smoothly for a person. For me, I felt that I needed to make a change and have better habits for myself, so I did. I applied myself and made a change for my great or good. On the other hand, I do need to work on some other things. I need to break the habit of eating out of boredom and try a little harder on my work instead of just getting it done.
I think I have more bad habits than good. For example, some of my bad habits are procrastinating my school work, biting my nails, and stress eating. Some of my good habits are making sure I drink enough water and I automatically complete any cleaning or chores when I get home, before I do anything else. I am definitely working on my bad habits and I have ways and solutions to help me accomplish my goals, but it is a work in progress. My habits do effect my daily life and sometimes make me very frustrated because I want to be able to change them and I don't see immediate results.
When it comes to the topic of gaining beneficial/harmful habits, most of us will readily agree that to gain these various habits it takes us a long period of time to sustain these habits. For instance during my sophomore year I decided to get my private pilot’s license. At first going through all the pre flight check list was a little bit tedious but eventually everything started to click after a while. My main problem going through the private pilot program was getting use to all the different controls in the cockpit as it was hard to memorize every single control in the plane. But after the months of going through ground training and all the one on one sessions with my instructor, I finally started to understand and be able to memorize every instrument in the cockpit. Overall this shows that habits are gained through months of repetition and hard work on your craft.
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You make an interesting point that habits are formed by repetition over a long period of time. I agree with you in that habits cannot be made by simply setting one’s mind to a task. I have a recurring personal struggle with habit-forming, though not as interesting as acquiring a private pilot’s license. I am a coached runner almost year-round—between the months of January and November. This means that during the remainder of the winter, I have to schedule my own workouts and runs. This task is always daunting for me because I have difficulty forcing myself to run during the cold, wet months of winter. By using a process similar to what Tara Parker-Pope advocates, I made the task easier on myself this year by buying a treadmill. The combination of the treadmill and the ability to entertain myself while running—by watching videos or listening to music—has allowed me to easily form a habit of working out over the winter months.
I wish that I would drink more water on a daily basis. I am often dehydrated and get headaches because of it. The article kind of motivates me to try but it seems really hard to remember to drink more. If I just drink more water during lunch, it might become a habit.
I think that habits are necessary for living a balanced life. I have an equal amount of both good and bad habits. I have my normal routines throughout the day that I like, but there are also bad habits I have that show up throughout my day, and I have a hard time changing them. If I am serious about making real change — in other words, if I am very serious about doing things better than I am now — then i have to start small. Imagine the typical habits, good or bad: Brushing my teeth. Putting my seat belt on. Biting my nails. These actions are small enough that I don't even think about them. I simply do them automatically. They are tiny actions that become consistent patterns.
One of the most challenging things for me is breaking old habits. I feel this is common among most people. When we fall into habits that we maintain throughout our lives and once we realize these habits it is difficult to break them. Difficult but not impossible. “ All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.” -Wislawa Szymborska, this quote shows that if you have the will you will find a way. Once you believe in the reality of overcoming a habit you will forget the imagination of not overcoming the habit. Anyone can list tips on how to stop chewing your nails but the only tip that works every time is using your mind. The mind is so strong and it can overcome a silly thing like a habit. You have your mind. Use it.
Adopt new habits in your life sometimes can be hardened than bad habits, in my case, I try to eat healthy food but is so hard for me to keep these habits. One of the biggest issues of us is practice exercise but in my case when I practice exercise I feel with more energy and I know is good for my body but keep this good habits is so difficult for me and often times I failed because after 2 or 3 months I stop doing this good habits or when I try to drink more water for me is really hard. For an adult person is really hard to acquire good habits mostly of society have bad habits and the consequence is probably in the future they can have more issue with health. I think we have the power to create new habits and keep doing this, just we need patience, a high level of motivation and extra effort to make big challenges in our life.
Everybody have good and bad habits. I have most of good habits some of bad. My good habit is I am a responsible person. I take care of my family. I wake up six in the morning, I make food for my family, I drop of my kids to the school and then I go to my college. After finishing college, I pick up my kid and go to home. This is every day schedule for me. I never feel bad for them. My family also happy for my responsibility. My bad habit is I never focus on my body. I never eat timely. I am getting fat but I never focuses my health. I realize it looks bad. When I want to try to do for my own than laziness bother me tell me do the tomorrow not today. Time goes and flies I am not changing. When I read this article, I realize I need to change and do better for mine. I need to do exercise, eat good food for my good health. I wish I would do properly.
I’m between in both of them, I try to stop having the bad habits because it is not good for me affect mentally and fiscally. Last year, I used to go to the gym every day with my best friend and staring eating healthy. Although, the feeling to be an athletic was getting more difficult because we prefer to stay home watching Netflix and buying fast food. Sometimes a person have to be more motivate it to complete achieve something. Nevertheless, my good habits are help my mother at home, support my friends, and another case my mom or my aunt don’t understand something I help them. Everyone is not perfect, some people have more commitment than another to stop having bad habits. Lastly, every day a person have to challenge their lives, the result will help you feel better as a person.
Create new and good habits is one of the biggest responsibilities that human being have with himself or herself. It is difficult to answer if I more good or bad habits because in my case sometimes they come together. Most of the time people want to have a healthy lifestyle but like the article mention people starts with many good habits at the same time. It is difficult to do many new things at the time because we are not accustomed. I was trying to eat healthy and go to the gym, indeed they are two simple activities, in addition I just started my classes, so I have to wake up earlier. It was a complete disaster, I was angry, tired, anxious, and of course asleep all the time. Then I said no more and I stopped with everything except my English classes. Now I am trying to get more good habits but little by little. A lot of people have bad habits, they know that those are bad but they don’t have any motivation to be better. In my personal opinion a big fact that can influence to have bad habits is the routine because when people have a sad and old routine they tent to do just what they have to do like wake up, work, eat, sleep. Life is a gift that all people have we must enjoy our life and try to be better in all aspects that we can, not everything is going to be easy but if you have good habits you have more probabilities to get your goals.
I believe good habits are harder to form than bad habits. For me, I think I have more bad habits than good habits honestly. Every morning, I always late to class or to work whatever how I woke up early. My mom always says to me that I do everything is slowly, in fact, I want to do everything faster. However, I go up early and it does not allow me to everything quickly so that causes me late for work or class. Moreover, I usually take a nap after I go home that causes me cannot feel sleepy at night, therefore I always go to sleep so late that makes me feel tired every morning. One time, my primary care doctor told me if people take a nap around 4 P.M that will cause them poor memory. After that, I decided to go to bed early in order to change my bad habits. However, I find it is very challenging for me.
In nowadays, having good habits could influence your life in the daily routine. With simple steps like make your bed every day after you wake up, and do not leave the clothes in the floor. This can make your life more organize and uncomplicated for you. The good habits that I want to achieve is read books with more frequency, eat healthier and at an exact time, do more exercises, and have less stress. A good way to complement good habits be focused in the important things that you have to do, and have a precise time for each thing that you want to do.
I think have good habits is good for mental health, make exercise like yoga which is a mental relaxation or run every day can be good for some people to help them to have a good health and life . We can create new habits with determination and be focus and what do you need, eat health or have a good breakfast because is the more important food in the day. The habits that I want to have could be make more exercise and eat more health food or listening audio books it’s a motivation for me because in this form I can go step by step and create and habit.audio books and yoga can be relaxing because you can think and stay and calm without stress.
It is true that, after I reading this article I’m stared thinking about all my habits. I have good and bad habits but I would like to star to change my bad ones for the good ones. I want to try to change my habit to eat after 8:00 pm, I know that is not good for my health and sometimes for this reason I can sleep well, another bad habit is to use the car for go anywhere and I know we need to walk every day. I know to create good habits sometimes is to hard and take long time but if we never star never happened. One of my favorite good habit is meditation, I was try for more than six months and now I can said that this habit changed my live in a positive way.
Making new habits after having already others is difficult for us because we are used to have a routine for everything. Now, making healthy habits is more difficult because we are not accustomed to change the way of our life abruptly. I tried to make some changes in my life doing good habits, at the beginning, I always follow every step, but with the time, I always forget to keep going, and I stop doing it. I want to have the habit of save money, drink water all the time every day, read more frequently, leave the social medias and the phone to give me more time myself, among others. Doing good and healthy habits can be beneficiary for our mental and mental health. In that case, I’ll try until I achieve keeping that good habit that I want to have.
Healthy habits, build a new habit. It is easy to know that is good and bad for our life. make to change is difficult because already we have a routine. make to change is very important to have a healthy life. wake up in the morning do a routine of excise by example walk around our house, add fruits and vegetables in our diet, no eat sugary foods and try to keep these habits we help to have healthy habits. make changes in our life, it is up to us.
I have successfully broken a habit before. I used to bite my nails a lot. Every day during school, at home, or any other place. I would be constantly biting my nails everywhere, and I would be doing it unconsciously. I had been told countless times by my parents that I needed to stop. My parents gave me ways to stop biting my nails, but none of their ways helped. Eventually, I figured out that when I noticed myself biting my nails, I would sit on my hands for as long as possible. This method led me to eventually stop biting my nails at all. My advice is if you notice yourself biting your nails, sit on your hands. It helped me a lot. Also, try to notice when you are biting your nails, so you can always be conscious of it.
I think all the human beings have habits, those habits can be negative and positive but in my case I have more Good habits than Bad. One of the habits that I have and that I really like to do is eat healthy. Most of the people like to eat junk food because its taste really good but is not good for our body. I have I aunt that she likes and enjoy to eat healthy meals. Most of her meals that she prepare she prepared with the less chemical as possible, she doesn’t add a lot of oil in the food and others ingredients that can be bad for our health. During the time I was living with my uncle I got used who what she cooks and the way that she cooks now is a for me is a habits that I have to eat and cook the healthier as possible. Every time that I eat a meal I try to eat the healthier as possible and add the less chemical ass possible in my food and add more natural ingredients. This habits really help me daily because I see people with many diseases because they are not eating healthy food or they have problem trying to eat healthy but is difficult for them because they are used to eat and cook unhealthy otherwise I don’t have a problem with that because eat healthy is a habit for me .
Habits are pretty easy to make. It´s the repetition of a single action over and over again to where it becomes a reflex. A bad habit i have would be procrastination. I´m lazy so i would waste time doing nothing when I´m supposed to be doing something. A good habit i have would be me going to bed on time during a school week. After i finished doing everything like taking a shower, brushing my teeth, and ironing my clothes i would look at the time and see if it´s time to go to bed or not.
I find intensives and rewards the best way for me to actually stick to new habits. When I don't have intensives, I procrastinate and keep telling myself I'll do it later (which never comes). This is a bad habit of mine so to break it, I reward myself if I complete my goal. I often do this when I have a lot of homework to do and not enough time to complete it all. I give myself a time to finish each assignment. When I finish on time, I reward myself with something, and when I don't complete it on time, I get nothing. This usually works to make sure I get everything done that I need to.
I probably have more bad habits than good habits. For example, when my parents tell me to do something I usually wait for the last minute. It is the same story for homework too, I always wait till then last minute to do something but in the end, I always get it done on time. Honestly, I don't really have any good habits to talk about. They affect my life by giving me more stress. When I wait to do something it just builds up a wall of stress
I have once broken an awful habit of mine, nail biting. I would bite my nails day and night due to anxiety and stress of daily life. One day I decided I was tired of bloodied nails and id figure out a way to stop this progressing habit. How I halted this habit was by simply just painting them, i'm not usually one for nail polish, but I believed that getting rid of the habit was more important, and it did. I no longer bite my nails and now they always become long, I take pride in it.
I feel as though I have an even match of good and bad habits mostly because I don't have too many habits in general. A good habit is I play basketball at my house almost everyday, I got this habit by not wanting to deal with my sisters and not being able to do anything else like play video games. A bad habit is I always procrastinate on everything homework, chores, eating (I won't eat while my family eats and then my food will be cold I don't like cold food but I don't want to go down stairs either). Basketball doesn't really affect school all that much, but procrastinating does i usually wait till the last second to do anything homework projects all of it.
I am good at making habits but like I said before my habit of procrastination is so strong that I usually can't override it with another habit. No I usually try to start small with a bold outcome, but like I said before I usually procrastinate.
I think to slip it into something you do everyday would be the best one because just to do two things at once can be very efficient if you don't have a lot of time. I think to reward myself because my reward would be to stop doing the healthy habit. I don't have many habits so the ones i do it would be hard to break them so i've never broken a bad habit.
I wish I had a habit where I could focus on something the entire time and not get distracted. Whenever it is time for me to do my homework, I would either go on my phone or chat with my friends to the point where it is too late to do all my homework on time. I have many bad habits, but the worst one I have is biting my nails. I do it so often that my nail would start bleeding. Sometimes, I do not even notice I am biting my nails. It is part of my everyday life. Although I do stop for some time, I just go back to it because that is my tactic to relieve stress. Most habits are really hard to build/break, so the article does not really help me. My family would try making me paint my nails, but I do not like getting my nails painted. Even if I do get them painted, I would most likely peel the paint off. I am hoping I would just gradually stop biting my nails. However, once that habit almost stops, it starts back up again. It is like a never-ending cycle!
I have more good habits than bad, in my opinion. I am trying to lose weight for spring and summer, and I have a system that I use to make sure I am doing all of my exercises. If I am playing a game, whenever I lose or die I do 10 pushups, 10 situps, and 10 jumping jacks. This usually leads to me doing about 100 of each per day. This has also become a habit of mine. One bad habit I used to have is biting my nails, so I always keep them painted to suppress the urge to bite them. I always want to look put together, so I don’t bite them for fear the paint will chip. This keeps that bad habit away forever.
One really bad habit I have is procrastination. For every assignment or project of any type (this includes studying for tests), I wait until the very last day to get it done and it is a habit I have been trying to drop for the past two years with no luck. Every time I get a new assignment, I want to do it but I get lazy and flop on the couch to watch TV instead. A good habit I have is when I get home from school, I have a fruit with my usual snack, but I would definitely say that I have a lot more bad habits than good.
I think the tips that tell you to do the thing you want to turn into a habit every day and to make it easy are the most helpful tips for making something a habit. If you do something every day, and you make it easy to do, then it will definitely become a habit quickly. Also, I think the hard part of making something a habit is getting used to doing it every day, because to me, if I try to make something a habit, and I haven’t gotten used to doing it everyday, I feel like there’s no point in doing it and it’s a waste of time. Because of this, if I made it easy for me to do, it would be easier for me to do it each day, turning it into a habit.
I think the hardest tip to successfully practice would be doing it every day. Even though there are things I could do to make something a habit more easily, like I said, it just doesn’t feel like it is worth the time to do if it isn’t a habit yet.
I have successfully broken a bad habit. Well the bad habit was waking up late for school. I was able to overcome this bad habit by doing these three things:
One, I set up multiple alarms for myself to wake me up in the morning.
Last but not least, I made sure that I tried to keep a regular sleep schedule so that my body is starting to have some sort of routine to waking up at a certain time.
I think that I can speak for tons of people of all ages when I say this: My worst habit is procrastination. My teachers give due dates sometimes the next day and others the next week. Having the deadline the next day puts me to work, knowing that I do not have much time to complete the work. This does not apply with deadlines the next week. These tend to reveal my habits of procrastination. I think that I have time to lay off my work and leave it for another time. That is when I set dates for when I do them, but I never live up to my goal. Next thing I know it, the day before its due arrives and I have nothing but a sentence of work completed. However, I think that my good habits overrule my bad habits. Brushing my teeth in the morning and at night, waking up and going to bed at a decent hour, playing soccer every now and then, etc. are all good habits of mine. Both good habits and bad habits affect my life in and out of school thoroughly, leaving me healthy at some points and stressed at others.
I feel like I have more bad habits than good habits. Some of my bad habits can lead to stress for me and I’m trying to break it. The habit is that while I’m doing homework, I’ll just go on my phone or open a new tab on the computer and watch YouTube videos. I’m just delaying my work to get done and because I’m procrastinating, I’ll sleep late and therefore it’s bad for my health. For my good habits, it’s probably just spending time talking to my family but otherwise, most of all of my other habits are just weird. Lately, I would just pick up my leg on the side so that my hip would crack. Or I’ll just move my shoulder joints or my shoulder blade joints around (I’m double-jointed). Actually, I feel like most of my habits have something to do with me being flexible. The habit that I want to start doing is flossing my teeth. I was never taught correctly and I just never did it. I’m trying to do it when I brush my teeth at night but I always go to sleep at around 10 or 11 and by then, I’m too sleepy to do anything extra. But I am proud of myself that I’ve started to do it at least once a week.
One of the habits that I’d really like to have is to remember to stretch every morning, after waking up. This is important to me because I would like to become more flexible, and I’ve heard that stretching makes you both physically and mentally stronger.
A habit that I would like to break is to refrain myself from biting my nails. It was my New Years Resolution, and I made it through January. Unfortunately, I did not make it through February. After reading this article however, I think that I will take small steps, and again not allow myself to bite my nails throughout March and April, give myself a one month break, and make it through June, July, and August without, slowly teaching myself over longer periods of time.
I would also like to try to make a habit of stretching every morning, by doing just a little every day.
I have a lot of bad habits and not too many good ones. I think I manage my homework well compared to most people but not to the point where I would call it a good habit. I think One of my worst bad habits is staying up too late. I usually stay up late because it's hard for me to fall asleep if I'm not really tired so that's why I stay up. I find that I struggle with making healthy habits because it’s hard for me to change something even if I've only been doing it for a short amount of time. I think developing good habits and getting rid of bad habits is something that I really need to work on in the future. I think I'm good at making good habits but the challenge for me is to stick with them for an extended period of time.
A bad habit I have broken before is procrastinating. Now I have realized that leaving all your work until the last minute will just make it more stressful, and you are more likely to do a better job when you are not under constant stress. A good habit that I have, is that I try to go to bed at a reasonable time so I can function well the next day. This helps me do better with my schoolwork. Something that I think strongly helps with breaking bad habits and starting good ones is thinking about how much better you could feel after breaking a bad habit. This motivates me to change, and become a better person.
I was always a nervous person, and had a problem with biting my nails. I would bite them until the skin around it was sore, and I bit the skin around it off when I couldn’t reach the nails. My parents and art teacher hated it, and would often berate me for it. I tried painting my nails,or putting pepper polish on them, or even putting on fake nails, but nothing ever worked. I would bite through the fake nails and my nail polish covered ones before realizing what i was doing, and then I would have to spit it out. It was always a big problem for me, and I didn’t know how to break the habit of doing it. I have tried everything that was in the article before, and it has never worked for me.
I’ve broken many bad habits since I was little, and it has always been a struggle to do so. One of my worst habits was when I used to bite my nails every time I got nervous. It’s not sanitary and frankly, kind of disgusting. Every time I was frightened about doing something the habit would come back and my nails would end up looking disheveled. Breaking that habit was difficult, whenever I felt scared and was about to bite my nails I sat on my hand and got into the habit of deep breathing instead. Many times I caught myself about to do it but I always tried to use willpower and stopped myself. It was tough to do but in the end it was worth it. If you put in the effort your habit will go away.
I definitely have more bad habits than good. Nail biting, procrastination, cracking my knuckles, scratching at my scalp when nervous, ect. A good habit I do have though is self care when I have the time.
The first bad habit I remember having was biting my nails. It’s pretty disgusting and I have broken this habit. I think a really important factor in breaking this was my mom. She would always complain to me that there were fingernails on the floor. Another factor was the fact that it was kind of disgusting and probably unhealthy considering how dirty my fingers can be. One habit that I wish I had would be doing some kind of exercise every day, whether it be 100 sit-ups or 10 push-ups. I might implement this into my morning schedule. When I wake up I might do a couple of jumping jacks to actually get me awake. After a while, I’ll find some way to implement even more exercise into my schedule, like doing some more jumping jacks before I walk into my house (when I get home from school).
Even though biting your nails is a small bad habit I successfully got over that habit by biting on other things like metal. The good thing was that metal was my go to if I felt like biting my nails, but metal has some very bad stuff in it so I would not recommend my method to stop biting my nails. Even if you’re like me. Let’s just say now metal tastes awful to me.
I have more bad habits than good habits, some of my good habits are spending enough time with my family, doing my classwork on time and also getting tom school on time. Some of my bad habits are always being on my phone and never getting a break from my phone, taking naps every day after school and then staying up all night. My bad habits affect me because staying on my phone all day every day makes my head hurt, and sleeping after school every day and staying up all night makes me tired and not want to get up in the morning
There was a good amount of time where I was not able to be my full self. My identity was based on what other people thought of me. My habits as well. I eventually started to change my habits and attitude.
Have you ever successfully broken a bad habit? If yes, how were you able to accomplish it? What advice would you give others who might wish to discard the same bad habit?
Yes I have successfully have broken a bad habit which was splurging whenever I bought something. I accomplished breaking the habit by learning self control and self discipline. If I were to give advice on how to break the same or similar habit I would say learn self control and to know your limits on when to stop.
Personally I don have "terrible"habits. I have some really good habits that start my morning but, also in that same morning I have bad habits. For example, as soon as i get up the first thing i do is look on my phone at social media, I really want to change this habit cause sometimes it's not always good things on social media so it might start my morning off bad. A really good habit I have is getting up at 5 to go workout, Personally I feel like getting out the bed and getting an early start to your day, by working out and getting your blood pumping is a good start to your day. I need to work on my bad habits but I feel like my god habits level my bad ones out.
I feel everyone has a bad and a good habit. You wan't to break some and you wan't build some, I would like to build the habit of reading in to gods word.
It is often said that breaking a habit is hard and is not done in a short amount of time. As I was growing up, I was taught that everyone has healthy and unhealthy habits, even if they are oblivious to them. In my experience, I have more bad habits than good ones. I procrastinate about getting my homework done, constantly taking breaks just ending up on my phone. However, I try to break these habits by turning off my notifications on my phone and by leaving my phone far from arms reach. On the other hand, my good habits include drinking mainly water and eating less junk food.
The habit I wish I had was to start an exercise routine everyday. I tried to start to exercise everyday before I went to bed and I did for a few days but I never found something that worked for me. I am determined to start doing it again and actually be consistent but I broke my arm so I have to wait until that is healed. The main strategy I would have to implement is consistency. I have tried and tried but I always end up giving up or not doing it again.
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A habit is something you either enjoy or are addicted to, and I personally enjoy the habits that I do and the majority of the habits I do is good, for one I enjoy fencing and playing music because of the environment that I grew up in, my family was always in love with music, not one day went by where I didn't hear music so it basically grew in my habits as well, fencing I gained from friends who always enjoyed sports having to do with weapons like jousting and so on, I started it back in middle school and I absolutely enjoy it. A habit is something you either enjoy or are addicted to, and I personally enjoy the habits that I do and the majority of the habits I do is good, for one I enjoy fencing and playing music because of the environment that I grew up in, my family was always in love with music, not one day went by where I didn't hear music so it basically grew in my habits as well, fencing I gained from friends who always enjoyed sports having to do with weapons like jousting and so on, I started it back in middle school and I absolutely enjoy it.
overall I would say I have more good habits than bad habits. I basically only drink water, I've been eating better, and I've been prostrating much less. Keeping good habits is much harder than bad ones. the only reason I have made those things habits is because I have forced myself to do them even when I didn't want to. making a good habit might not be easy but its necessary to stay healthy.
I believe that I have more good habits than bad. One of my best habits is being on time and always being organized. One of my worst habits is ignoring people that I don’t get along with very well. I think that I’m pretty good at building new, healthy habits. For example, I built a healthy new habit of eating an apple a day. I find that taking small steps toward a bigger goal is the way building new habits works for me. For example, I exercise every night before bed. I started small, just with sit-ups, and now I’ve worked my way up to push-ups, sit-ups, and lifting small weights. I would also recommend taking it slowly. If you try to build a new habit up too fast, sometimes it doesn’t work for you, and you drop it. But, if you started and slowly worked your way up, then it would be easier for you to adjust to the new habit. I wish that I had the habit of stretching every night to improve my flexibility. I would want to break the habit of bugging people for things all the time. However, I have broken a bad habit of exercising right after a meal. I did it by keeping myself busy with other things like homework right after a meal, rather than getting up and dancing or running around the room.
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A good way to build a good habit is finding the motivation in yourself first. Once you find the confidence and motivation to start something new, it becomes easier over time. Maintaining that motivation and confidence may be tough at times, but overall it will help you gain good habits, or the habits that you want to have. Being healthier, eating more, eating less, drinking more water, watching less tv, you can incorperate anything into your life that you want with motivation and the confidence that you can do it.
I feel like I have always had more good habits than bad habits because if I do start a bad habit I try and stop it before it becomes something I do daily. Sometimes I never know I am doing this bad habit unless someone points out what I am doing. Most of the time when they point out this bad habit I usually never even think about what I was doing all this time
Everyone has bad and good habits. I personally have a habit of being on social media, that is either a good thing or could be a bad thing. Most people don´t want kids my age to be on social media. They think its a bad thing because of work for school and other things that could affect our life in a way. Overall that is just one of many habits I have
I'm not very sure if I have more good habits than bad ones to be honest. Like i have a lot of bad habits an some good ones to, like i do run my hands through my hair wen I'm put in an awkward situation, and bit my nails when i'm anxious, an i don't take advice when i really need it. I would say its actually pretty difficult to break a habit but sometimes i end up making new habits to replace the ones i used prior
What do you think it takes to make good, healthy habits? Willpower? Incentives? A buddy? To make a healthy habit I think it takes willpower and willingness. You cannot truly make a new healthy habit if you are not invested in it.
Bad habits could cause major issues. For someone who is also trying to break a bad habit, I would advisefinding the triggers that causes the habit to continue by replacing that habit with something healthier is a great alternative as well.Most of bad habits are mental and if you try har enough you can break the habit.
Habits can sometimes be something that you do uncontrollably, but that is usually with bad habits. But a good habit can be something you begin to do everyday for a good impact on your life. I have a good habit with telling people about God and that impacts my life and other peoples life around me. It shows them how loved they are and how Jesus loves them so much that he gave his life for them.
I feel as if I have more good habits than bad. This being because I make sure to do everything I'm supposed to do and follow my daily tasks responsibly. My best habit is getting ready for the day and planning ahead, but my worst habit is cleaning my room... These affect my life because I'm not allowed to do much if my disastrous room is not clean, I also won't earn any money for sitting on my lazy butt all day and not doing my chores. This is effective because without the " punishment" from it I would earn nothing in life. However, it also does affect the lifestyle at school because you have to worry about homework, chores, sports, and many other tasks you do in one day.
I do agree that everyone has habits wand that they are hard to break. At the same time, people are so used to their daily habits that they don't want to break the chain of change. So I do agree that it is very difficult to change a habit or make a new one or even get rid of an old one.
i feel like i have some bad habits and some good habits. one of my bad habits is i procrastinate, so i never get school work done. one of my good habits is that i am a hard worker, even though i procrastinate a lot i am a hard worker so when i finally get do my work i work hard. procrastination is a bad habit because you really never get stuff done.
One of the worst habits I have is nail biting. I instinctively bite my nails whenever I feel nervous, overwhelmed, or even bored. I try to break this habit, but usually I don't notice that I'm biting my nails. This habit has gotten to the point where my nails are very short and occasionally they bleed. The problem I am having is how do you break a habit once it becomes instinct? I've been biting my nails since early elementary school and since then I just can't get myself to stop.
What makes a habit a habit? Is it the repetitive action of doing the same thing over and over again uncontrollably? Thats how I would chose to define it. I am a strong believer that breaking habits or not breaking them is a state of mind. Every human has the willpower to overcome a habit, we just have to make a habit of it. Too many people make excuses, and I am most definitely guilty of this. But regardless of how big or small the habit is, it can indeed be broken. If we shy away from breaking habits what does that mean, it means that we are letting ourself be controlled by a deep part of our mind. The mind is a complex puzzle, habits are simply an example of how our mind can control us without our knowing.
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@Elle Laguto I am in full agreement with your argument, I think that any human has enough willpower to break a habit, regardless of the challenges a person faces when trying to break it. I have tired to break the habit of biting my nails, and yes it was a very challenging task to get over, but the benefits are overcoming. Very good witting ellie!!
I feel as though when creating good habits, I have to force myself to follow them. However, when forming bad habits, they happen without a second thought and I never know when or how I picked them up. I think oftentimes, the bad habits are more convenient than the good habits, which greatly impacts how easily we fall into step with them.
I don't think I've necessarily broken a habit purposefully, foe me it was just a kind of thing that just happened. For example, I used to find myself biting my nails so often to the point of where I couldn't remember doing it. I would just look at my nails and wonder what happened or why do my nails never grow. I really did try to stop the habit but I could never really stop. I then just occupied myself with a lot of stuff like schoolwork and after school activities. It soon came to the point of where I was so busy I didn't have time to bite my nails. After that period of time, I just stopped biting my nails. I don't even do it anymore at all. I honestly don't know what to say to anyone trying to stop a bad habit. All I can say i just try to adjust to whatever you need to break that habit.
I have broken a bad habit before, in elementary school, in fact. My family is christian, and 40 days before Easter, we can decide if we want to give up something or add a new habit for those next 40 days. My decision was to give up biting my nails; it was extremely difficult at first, but once I caught onto my triggers and made sure to keep my hands away from my face most of the time, I had successfully broken that habit. For someone who is also trying to break a bad habit, I recommend finding the triggers that causes the habit to continue; replacing that habit with something healthier is a great alternative as well. For instance, if someone is trying to stop nail biting or biting their lips, I recommend replacing it with eating carrots or any crunchy snack, preferably a vegetable. This helps fix that urge to chew on something without destroying anything on your body. Breaking a habit isn't easy, but with self discipline, it can be broken. Even years later, I don't bite my nails, and I'm proud of my 11 year old self for making that decision.
I have a several good and bad habits. I think the habit I have that is most beneficial to me is my habit of working out. I started this habit in the summer of 2019 because I wanted to get into shape for softball. I think my worst habit is procrastinating. This is my worst habit because I always stress myself out when I haven't done my school work and the deadline is soon.
I believe that while,yes, I have bad habits my good habits out weigh them.I would say that one of my best habits would be my morning routine and going to school,because I have been doing it for so long in repetitive fashion.But I also believe that my sleep schedule is one of my worst habits.I would say I acquired both of them through my whole life.They both affect my life largely because they both such a big part of my life,but mostly in school because when I have a bad morning it probably starts with not having enough sleep because my sleep schedule or morning routine.
Creating a new habit is really hard for a lot of people that includes me. It's so hard for me to commit to starting new things. Whether it's starting and completing a new show, drinking lemon water instead of regular water, or even using toothpaste with added baking soda to make my teeth extra white always ends up dying in the end. It's not even things that take hard work to finish. I can't even finish a TV series when the two main characters start to fight and start to change the plot! I believe for me to start new habits, its slim to nothing on successful i'll be. I also have some habits that are really bad as well. For example I'm suppose to wake up 6:10 am every weekday for school. However, since I can't get out of bed I set a alarm to wake me up. To hear the alarm you have to turn up the sound but I never do because I have a small fear that one in class i'll have the sound up for the alarm and my phone will go off in class. Therefore, I almost never hear my alarm and end up waking up late or just get my mom to wake up instead. Another example also has to do with my morning routine. I take a sower every morning to feel nice and refreshed everyday. Usually it will take me 20 minutes in the shower. I'm supposed to be out by 6:30 since that's the time my brother wakes up and needs the bathroom to get ready as well. I'm out by 6:25. Then instead of getting dressed, I take a small nap. Which gives me less time to get ready. I wish I could just fix myself, it would be easier.
I would actually enjoy having the habit of exercising. It's a healthy and positive habit that most people want to achieve. Although, it usually doesn't work out for some people. That reason being because people aren't continuous about exercising. I think in order to keep a habit you have to be constant. You can't just start out with exercising everyday, you have to work in slow steps. Gradually progressing to your exercise goal is way more realistic and easy to keep up to speed with. If you build your habit the correct way, then it shouldn't be that much of a challenge to maintain it. The article mentions aspects of rewarding yourself throughout your habit. I definitely agree about this, you should reward yourself in order to keep motivation. Although, rewarding yourself too much can have bad outcomes. People who want to exercise always want to lose weight, because of this they're so focused on their end goal. They don't see the time and endurance it will take to actually get to that end goal. I think that's why the habit of exercising fails for most people. The best advice I have is honestly to just be consistent and motivated, but don't motivate yourself to the point that it's fake.
Having good habits is a good way of having a strong foundation for a better future. Not only habits are good and they can leave an impact on your life. I wish i had the habits of eating healthy and doing everything on time. My worst habit would be time management because i usually wait until the last minute to work on something. The one bad habit that i broke and starting to build is staying physically active. After reading this article I do want to try and build new healthy habits to better my life for the future. To help enhance my chances of success I will try to start clearing my mind and focus on the things that really matter in life and probably try some yoga.
2 year ago I made a New Year resolution to exercise every morning before school. The first 2 days I did exactly that, when the days started going by I started getting too lazy to get out of bed for my morning exercise. Then 2 days turned into 2 months and months turned into a years. I think the reason this happened because I expected too much from my self from the Beginning and that is not a good way to start a healthy habit. I would say I've gotten into the habit exercise every morning but that would mean I'm lying, but hopeful I get the courage to get into that healthy habit. Who knows maybe days will turn to months and months to years, and 2 years later I'm seeing this comment on here. Wish me luck!!!!!!!!!!
I feel as a athelete I acuire many bad habits but work hard to break them to improve my athletic ability. I also find my self with many good habits including staying active and working out. There are a few things in baseball that every person does well and it comes from muscle memory which soon becomes a habit such as, opening your hips while turning a double play or going through your on deck routine preparing to take at bat. Outside of baseball, I have several habits that I wish I could break. For instense, when I wake up I always sit on my phone before getting in the shower instead of getting up and hurrying to get ready. Although, I do have a few good habits that help me through my day and be more prepared. When I am walking out the door to leave for school I will always make sure I have my essential for practice or what ever activity I will be participating in after the school day ends. By having these good and bad habits I beleive I am a well rounded person with a few little flaws that I dont seem to mind.
I feel like I have more good habits than bad, but I do feel like I have more weird habits than good. Like for instance every morning I wake up at 6:30, shower, wash my face, brush teeth, etc. Then I religiously drink an 8 oz glass of water, always 8 oz, always in the same glass, and always at the same time, spot, and scrolling through the same app on my phone. This stemmed from me not drinking anything from 9:00 and night to 1:00 the next day and it severely impacted my physical health, so I started drinking water and within about a month or two it became second nature. I do have some bad habits like not eating breakfast on the weekdays and not keeping a steady laundry schedule or not studying for math tests. Its not all bad or strange I do keep a steady routine for the entire day and if I deviate from that plan all hell breaks loose it seems, so incorporating new habits is very challenging for me.
I would say some of my best habits include having everything managed really well. I get my homework, chores, and extracurricular handled in a very timely manner. On the other side of that, because I spend much time with school work and all, I tend to go to sleep at a very late hour within the night. I feel as if I have more good habits than bad, but when asked to think of some good habits, only the bad ones seem to come to mind. I think that is due to the fact that humans are creatures that point out errors and my brain is only finding what's wrong as opposed to what is right. My daily routine has been fairly consecutive for the past several years. It is seldom that I happen to change the pattern of my routine and when I happen to do so, something seems to be odd. One funny example of having a habit is when students go to school for the first time in the year and pick seats. Majority of the time, on the second day, the students return to those seats at which they had picked previously the day before.
A bad habit I personally used to have is building lists every day. whether it be what needed to be accomplished in a day or what I just wanted to seek to get done. This habit began when I started going to therapy back in middle school. Don't get me wrong, a lot of people can benefit from making lists to keep them on track, for myself however, they only gave me anxiety. I felt like if I didn't everything checked off, I had failed for the day. I worked with my therapist on this and told him why it was such a problem for me. I ended up breaking this bad habit by realizing the good stuff I do each and every day, and appreciating those things more than what did not get done. It got to the point where any small task I accomplished, I rewarded myself for it always. Getting out of a bad habit is stressful, but when you can identify the problem and the solution, it all becomes easier.
I think I'm getting better at building healthy habits. Over the past month or two I've been drinking water throughout the day, eating healthier, and working out three times a week. There are days where I'll skip a workout or eat junk food for lunch, but I think I'm closer to making it all habit to drink water, eat healthy, and workout.
I wish I had the habit of running every morning or when I get home from school. Reading this article helps motivate me to find time in my schedule to run sometimes . I guess I could run to the bus stop or after school I could got for a 5 minute walk and start from there. I want to build my endurance by starting this habit and hopefully get more in shape for summer. Running has always been a hard thing for me to do on my own , I usually do it only at a sports practice with friends . So, I believe inviting my peers to run with me can get me motivated and back into shape like I use to be .
I think habits occur over a period of time, some are good and some are bad. Some healthy habits I have are working out almost everyday. Working out and weightlifting are things that take my mind off of stress and allows me to push myself. A bad habit I have is eating out too much. Another bad habit I have is procrastinating. I always wait till the last minute to get things done. I am going to try to work on fixing the bad habits and work on making good new habits.
I think I have more bad habits than good habits. I bite my fingernails, go to bed late, procrastinate on my homework, etc. My good habits are hygiene and turning my work in on time (for the most part) but that's all I can think of off of the top of my head. I've bitten my nails ever since I was little and it's become z regular thing that makes me cringe and make other people cringe. I'm never able to go to bed late due to school and extra-curricular activities, but mostly it's also because I'm on my phone, which could be set as a separate bad habit. I've acquired the good habits from common sense. Turning my work in on time also comes from the fear of failure, and it keeps me going.
The tip I believe is the most useful is the tip about latching a new habit onto an already existing one. Of course as it is said in the article a few times, a person's morning routine is usually the most stable and consistent, so adding on to it little by little could be a good healthy way of creating a new habit. I think doing squats or standing on one foot while brushing your teeth is a great way to do this, as brushing your teeth is easy and automatic for most people. Maybe doing some jumping jacks or push ups to help wake yourself up right after getting out of the bed could be another good gateway to a new habit.
I feel like my good and bad habits are equal. My worst habits is procrastinating, nail biting, overthinking and so many more. I've been biting my nails ever since I was about 5 or 6. My best habit is keeping up with my work, pushing myself to do better and etc. I don't think doing squats while brushing your teeth will become a habit. It takes time to form a habit. Habits makes you, you. A few habits I wish I had was to workout regularly. I've notice a lot that students struggle with procrastination.
The way in which we develop our habits are the essential foundation to our personalities and lives. Whilst grasping the ways in which our daily routine progresses, we ultimately work to set goals for ourselves and our standards change. For example, the manner in which an individual has grown up getting ready for school can alter how they view the idea of going to school and can influence the general speed of their habits. If they get ready slowly, this can indicate either a general disinterest in school, or simply slow habits in the process of getting ready. With this, the entirety of one’s personality can develop around these situations, thus pushing that person to center their beliefs around the topic through this. Therefore, it is extremely important that the small things that we do in our everyday lives- our habits- are consistent with positive ideas, in order to ensure that our view upon these things are also positive. By utilizing every opportunity to change our habits to those that are good, our feelings of happiness can further grow. Although habits are hard to change, if we make a real effort, failure to do bad habits within 30 days is proven to allow them to be gone. We can work to reach these 30 days through the mindset that good habits make good rewards!
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It is often said that in order to create a habit you just need to do it every day; for approximately 66 days. Sure, doing this might add a practice into your daily routine, but I don't think that that is a habit. I think it takes much more than that. I believe you need to have a built-up high intrinsic motivation to change something in your life to better yourself. At least for me, if that intrinsic motivation isn't there, creating a habit isn't possible.
Every now and then there is a motivation to change something in your life whether it’s changing a bad habit, or adding a healthy new set of expectations to your lifestyle. I have recently begun doing yoga at night and each night I’ll work on different focuses so it stays interesting. You would think that creating new healthy habits can be really hard, especially with finding time for these new goals in your busy schedule. However, it can actually be quite simple it just depends on how motivated and challenging yet interesting your goal is.
It is often said that breaking a habit is hard and is not done in a short amount of time. As I was growing up, I was taught that everyone has healthy and unhealthy habits, even if they are oblivious to them. In my experience, I have more bad habits than good ones. I procrastinate about getting my homework done, constantly taking breaks just ending up on my phone. However, I try to break these habits by turning off my notifications on my phone and by leaving my phone far from arms reach. On the other hand, my good habits include drinking mainly water and eating less junk food.
I have quite a few bad habits that have unfortunately built up over the years. Some of them include procrastinating, stressing myself out, etc., and I’ve tried to break these habits cause I’ve noticed that they’re taking a toll on me. I usually tell myself that I’m gonna break the habit, try it for a day, and then give it up the next day. This endless cycle of trying and giving is obviously ineffective and I should try a different method.
I think some of these things mentioned in the article could probably be helpful to me. The thing that I probably need to take advice from is that I should start small. I usually start a habit in a way that isn’t sustainable and makes it too hard to keep up. Like with procrastinating, I usually start my homework in the late evening and then I tell myself that I’m going to start doing homework as soon as I get home. This only works one day and then I give up. So I think it would be more helpful if I tried doing my homework an hour earlier every week so I can build that habit. Hopefully, I’m able to break some of my bad habits by taking this advice.
This article talks about a very interesting concept to think about when wondering about human psychology- patterns, and habits that we create unintentionally. The author gives helpful tips that make it feel as though there are easy things that we can do to create better habits. Everyone has a routine they stick to whether they notice it or not, like a morning routine. The example the author used about building on an already stable routine is a very great idea because starting small over something so stable is a helpful foundation to build up on good habits when there is already a place to begin. When I was reading, I thought of how I would implement my own good habits into my routines and the methods I’ve learned from this article have stood out to me as something possible that I can accomplish. Personally, I think everyone should read this article because it really gives an insight to our patterns.
I think the biggest healthy habit I have is weightlifting. Not only do I go to the gym multiple times a week but I also care a lot about my performance and progress. This helps because weightlifting is healthy for your body but alsoIi take my sleep, nutrition, and recovery very seriously. Weight lifting also helps give me something that I can do rain or shine and no matter what's going on in my day I can always get into the gym and relieve myself of stress, anxiety, and also just have fun. My second healthy habit is listening to music. In my opinion this is the ultimate way to calm down and relieve stress or anxiety. I usually listen to country music because it can be calm and I relate to it a lot. One unhealthy habit I have is being on my phone WAY too much. This is unhealthy because I could usually be spending my time much more wisely.
It is often said that in order make a habit you must focus on repetition. While this may be true in some cases, it’s the little things that matter the most, such as, stacking your habits, linking them with other daily habits, and rewarding yourself. In my opinion, if you put in the right amount of work and dedication into developing a good habit, it will stick with ease. Additionally, I think choosing a meaningful habit is the most significant thing you can do as it leads to motivation to pursue it. For me, my habits go both ways, I have numerous good ones and bad ones. For example, I have good habits in things like, working out, eating well, and respecting others. However, I still have bad habits that I need to work on such as time management and study skills.
To answer the title of this article, I don’t think I have more good habits than bad, but instead I think I have an equal amount of both. The tough thing about bad habits is that they seem to stick in my mind more than the good ones. In the article, it states some good habits as exercising daily or every other day, and brushing your teeth, and I do both of those, but I don’t think too much of it. These things just keep me healthier and happier than if I didn’t do them. With bad habits though, they can stick in my mind and I feel terrible about them at times. One big bad habit that I have is definitely procrastinating. On homework, cleaning and other chores, asking my parents about plans with friends, etc. I always think after that I will change it up next time, because the procrastination always adds onto stress, and sometimes I can surprise myself and get my tasks done, but mostly I find myself back in the same place I have been before. I feel if I tried one of the tips in the article for forming a new good habit, it would help with my procrastination. Like I usually have a snack after school everyday, and I could try to start doing my homework then, which goes along with the “stack your habits” tip. Either way, I will always have bad habits, but after reading this article I’m sure I could work on my procrastination and some others.
I personally think my bad habits definitely outweigh the good ones. Every person has habits no matter what they are. Some may be as simple as brushing your teeth every morning and some might be more complicated. I have had one habit that I've had since I can remember and it's biting my nails. Until recently, I have had this habit and have hated it. I eventually overcame this habit but it wasn't easy. Once you've been doing something for so long it's like a basic routine you almost feel forced to do. Another bad habit I have is procrastinating. I will get home at 6 and not even start my homework until 10. I wish I could get rid of this habit but it seems like it's going to stay. It might help if I give myself goals to try and reach before I do things such as watching tv or playing video games. This could be a more efficient way of getting my work done without it having to be rushed and last minute that I hope I can achieve.
I agree that rewarding yourself is a great way to build habits as it creates something to look forward to. It's natural that there is always a reason to why people decide to do things, and forcing yourself won't get you anywhere. A sense of accomplishment each time you finish work on that habit will subconsciously trick yourself into doing it again. Personally, I tried to build the habit of doing chores; now, I'm rewarded by seeing what I have accomplished doing that.
When I think about habits what usually pops up in my mind is all the bad habits I have but because you good habits are never a problem for you. Bad habits are annoying because you know what you are doing is wrong but it's so hard to break that habit. For instance I am writing this comment as an assignment for my English 2 class and one of my many habits and issues is that I procrastinate on homework… a lot. I am writing this 2 nights before it is due which isn't very wise since it is a big part of my grade. Bad habits are tough but if you start fighting these habits slowly but surely they are sure to disappear and make your life so much easier and less stressful.
Something that I’ve wondered about for a while is why it is so hard to break unhealthy habits. Until I realized that the guilty feeling you get after doing that bad habit has something to do with repeating it. Let’s say you tell yourself your going to have a small dessert after dinner. Than after ten minutes you realized you finished the whole package of Oreos and feel an extreme amount of guilt, yet an abundance of pleasure while eating it. Your brain now associates Oreos with pleasure which may become addicting. In order to demolish bad habits something that helps me is changing your mindset: instead of seeing Oreos as a feeling of shame and guilt think of it as a reward for an accomplishment of the day. Being strict on yourself will only lead to an increase in stress levels and after a few days your back to old habits. That’s why going cold turkey is usually not sustainable in the long run. Easing yourself into healthy habits is a great tool because it steadily increases self control over time which is key to building life long habits. So with the Oreo example, you don’t have to quit cookies altogether to get rid of an Oreo craving, but instead get creative and bake a delicious healthy cookie recipe with whole ingredients. You might even realize you feel more energized and overall happier because your body isn’t fed chemicals. By acknowledging the great outcomes of healthy habits you’ll incorporate it into your daily routine without even thinking.
To be quite honest I don’t have a whole lot of bad habits. I used to have a whole lot. I used to bite my nails really really bad but then my grandma would give me 5 dollars each time she saw me and I didn't bite my nails. It sounds pretty crazy but for a little kid at the time it seemed like a whole lot. Eventually it broke me of my habit and I take care of my nails so much now. To the point that I would call that a good habit. I would say that one of my best habits is my cleanliness though. Some people would say that I have OCD pretty bad but I don’t really like calling it that because there are a lot of people who have a much bigger case of OCD than just wanting to stay organized. I would say that I am very proud of myself for being able to keep my room, school supplies, etc. quite clean and organized. I would say that I have a lot of really odd habits they aren't necessarily bad but I wouldn’t say they are good either, they are kind of just habits. To break habits I think it is very difficult depending on the habit and how bad it is. But for me I don’t think I have really broken a lot of habits the only one I can think of was the nails but I had my grandma to help me with that one.
I agree with Parker-Pope when she said that it’s natural for humans to have habits. It’s only when we get down to talking about the minutes does it get harder to keep track of our habits. Doing homework is a habit. Doing homework at 4 p.m. is a small subcategory of that habit. Setting new habits can be hard because we don’t even have the basics down for our already daily habits. If we push doing homework for 30 minutes, it’ll cut into the time we have saved for another habit. Then that will cut into more habits until there’s no time to incorporate in any new habits we’re trying to set. I don’t think there’s a way to fix this without a strict schedule.
Since I am a student, I have basically the same routine every day: wake up at 7:30, get ready, go to school, go home and start homework at 4, stop at 6 and eat dinner, run, take a shower, do more homework and study, practice piano, get ready for bed, go to bed at 11:30 and start the cycle all over again. Some of us want to start new habits, but there’s just not enough hours in the day. Even the weekend, which is supposed to be for relaxing, is plagued by homework that teachers have assigned, piano lesson, driving for my permit, YouthGroup, sports practice, and religious service that are all mandatory and take up hours. Instead of reading or going out with friends like I used to, I’m stuck cramming in homework during the afternoons and staying up just as late as I do weekdays. I’ll just have to wait to start habits until summer.
It is commonly said that bad habits are harder to break, and good habits are easier to maintain. This is mostly because bad habits provide the effect of instant gratification, and good habits generally offer a more delayed outcome. For example, a bad habit could be putting off a big assignment and starting it the day before it’s due. Its very easy to just blow off the assignment and do something else. Oppositely, doing the assignment in time is a lot more harder because it requires intense brain work and willpower. An example of a good habit could be working out every day for a specific amount of time. This could get progressively difficult due to the fact that it is a strenuous commitment and it requires time out of everybody’s busy lives. However, when the habit remains consistent it eventually starts becoming easier. It’s just very important to work on the good habit, block out the negative distractions and watch yourself improve.
Undoubtedly, habits are difficult to develop, but they can be life-changing. This is especially true when it comes to staying fit and eating right. People will often set New Year's Resolutions to lose weight, only to fail days later. Likewise, during late winter people will desire to get in shape for the spring and summer, yet fail once more. I believe that the failure to create healthy exercising and eating habits is the direct result of inappropriate intentions. New Year's Resolutions and "Summer Body" programs are not personal expectations, but rather societal expectations. As soon as people become displeased with others, they abandon their goals. Though it may sound selfish, I found that you should be healthy because it is what YOU want. You should exercise because it makes YOU feel good. You should eat right because it makes YOU happy. We cannot get caught up in trying to impress others; however, we should create healthy habits to impress ourselves. When we improve our physical health, we improve our mental health. It is a responsible choice to make health personal. Looking at yourself as just a piece of society is the most unhealthy habit you can have. Tend to your individual needs to create habits that promote your physical and mental health.
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The first thing that comes to mind when I think about habits is negative. When you have done things your whole life, it’s hard to stop. They are very easy to develop, good or bad. You may tell yourself at the beginning of the year that you will maintain better, healthier habits, but it’s much easier said than done. The only way to get out of bad habits, is to continuously do the same thing over and over to train your brain that this thing is better. Although not all habits are bad, It is important to know when you fall into one and know how to get out.
I definitely have my share of bad habits but I feel I have more good habits. Thanks to my parents I have always eaten healthy and exercised often, I have never been more athletic and healthy than I am now. I also think I have the willpower to make myself do something when it needs to be done which is a part of the formation of good habits. Rewarding yourself is a way to maintain a good habit from the start, and being healthy is the ultimate reward for me. When I have track practice I have to drink a ton of water before practice, and the reward is feeling good when I run when I'm properly hydrated.
A bad habit I have is that I like to procrastinate on my homework which is a pretty common habit that high schoolers have. I hope I'll be able to break that habit soon, and at least I know that breaking the habit is necessary to my success. It creates an incentive for me to complete it.
Americans today tend to believe that breaking a habit is fairly easy, but it really does take a lot of effort and a lot of getting used to. Habits are not something one can overcome in a night, it can take minutes, hours, days, and even months to get used to breaking or approaching a new habit. Being a junior in high school can be fairly difficult because it is the year you start thinking about colleges. I do in fact have a bad habit and that is stressing out too much, and thinking the worst about situations; this habit is unfortunately difficult to overcome because I am still teaching myself to break this habit. What I have realized throughout the years, is that it is okay if you have bad habits, day by day you will become one step closer to breaking those bad habits, and turn it into good habits.
Conventional wisdom has it that habits coincide with physical rewards. Instead, I aim to improve my personality to be more considerate. Americans tend to not empathize their peers resulting from the individualistic American notion. I hope to not loose this quality by starting small, as suggested by Ms. Parker-Pope.
I think, that I have more good habits than bad habits. I exercise, every morning, and I eat pretty healthy. I also engage in physical activity. Sometimes, though, I’m playing video games for too long, and doing things like that. This affects me because I may not be able to do certain things with my time. But having healthy habits like exercising helps me stay fit, and stay in good health. This has a positive impact on me, because I am able to do more exciting stuff.
Healthy habits are extremely hard to create, because you have to remember to stick to it. I have made resolutions that I found too hard to keep, because I didn’t plan for it. I don´t think that I am very good at creating good habits, or getting rid of bad ones, because I have a hard time remembering to do things that lead up to the overall goal. I don´t think that I have ever successfully broken a bad habit, because I don´t have a lot of willpower.
I’ve always believed that habits were easy to develop because I never fully developed one myself, it never occurred to me that a habit is more than just a pattern but fully committing and moving forward with your habit a step at a time. I have broken an unhealthy habit and it was hard, it took me a long time because I was always so tempted I had to stay away from it but seeing others around me just made me want to do it even more. But through all the hard times I would think of the harm it causes and I just kept repeating in my head “no, no, no, no”. I’m not sure I fully broke my unhealthy habit because sometimes I still crave it but it’s becoming easier and easier to remember all the harm it causes and move on.
Many people assume that the inability to stick to a new habit is reflective of a weak will or a lack of self-control. However, as Parker-Pope states in the article, the inability to stick to a new habit is not often because of a lack of self-control, but instead may be due to the way we choose to form new habits. For example, the article mentions how starting small when forming new habits can be more beneficial in the long run. For me, this is the most useful tip because it helped me out when it comes to procrastinating homework after school. For a while, I had trouble focusing on homework so I started small by eliminating distractions, such as deleting social media during the school week, and then eventually shutting down my phone while doing homework to avoid other distractions on my phone. Starting small has helped me to form this good habit faster than I would if I had not taken small steps.
There are three things that are certain in life; death, taxes, and change. We have to change at some point in order to adapt to the current way of life. The world spins but it never spins the same way and the same applies for the humans on earth, never walking the same path at the same time. No two days are the same and no two rotations are the same. Habits are the same way where the same principles apply. Habits will change and are fluid; conforming to the shape of the circumstance but retaining their basic properties in the same way that a liquid will take another shape but retain its same chemical make up. We will get up and drink coffee every morning no matter where you are in the world. The location is flud but the action is stagnant.
The habit won't change unless we add an outside force to it; such as adding creamer to the coffie. The coffee will always be coffee unless we force something else upon it. Force changes habits. You have to want to change a habit in order to do so. Millions of Americans say that they will quit smoking or take better care of their health this year in the new year but few follow through due to the massive amount of work that it takes to change. While you have to force yourself to change, you have to want to change as well. The hardest part of doing anything is the mental aspect of it; forcing yourself to start and do it everyday. Once you get into it, it becomes easy.
I used to look forward to the new year because it was a way to feel like having fresh start. However from now on I will not make New Years resolutions because I find that the habits I try and create for myself tend to slip within a month or two. Instead I will be making a resolution every 2 to 3 weeks because hopefully after a month or two I should have three good habits that I have made and hopefully haven’t slipped through. It is much easier to accomplish 3 easy tasks to start making that positive habit then immediately jumping in and telling yourself that you will “better” yourself. Americans tend to believe that they need to make this “big change” every year to help better yourself, however if you start out with something small and make minor changes, by the end of the year you should have plenty new positive habits instead of one failed resolution.
@Charlie I feel the same way. I always have the problem of making a new years resolution and always think... new year new me right? But as I have come to find that doesn't always work out like you said. Instead of making one big goal from now on I will make multiple little ones throughout the year like you said.
The standard way of thinking about bad habits seems to be that they are almost impossible to get out of your routine. Especially considering the length of the period of time the habit has been outgoing. My whole life I’ve heard “easier said than done” when someone is asked why don’t they stop this or that and although that may be true, that doesn’t make it impossible. People are not willing to persevere and push through a bad habit because of it being “too much work”. Some are not committed enough to have better. If they want it enough, one will make it possible or at least make progress. It comes down to the determination of having better for yourself.
Throughout the course of my high school years, I’m constantly reminded by my parents when I come home from school to do my homework right away. Hearing those words often bring a chill to my bones. I often disregard their warning and spend time doing leisure activities to detox myself from a hard day’s work. This method of procrastination I have developed has caused me to stress over homework when it’s suddenly late at night when I should be sleeping, or it causes me to wake up early and to cram in the work before leaving for school. Looking back, I wish I would have listened more to my parents about their advice because it is hard to recognize you have developed a long lasting unhealthy habit if no one is there to remind you about it. Although it get be frustrating to even acknowledge you have an unhealthy habit, that is a first step of overcoming them. To be able to accept that you have developed a habit that is harming your life can allow yourself to slowly find new ways to overcome it. It is necessary to slowly ease away from this habit and not cut it out completely because from my own personal experience, it will most likely come back. My advice is to write down your unhealthy habit and the steps you are going to take to break it; the power of pen to paper is unmatched to any other.
I agree that bad habits are very difficult to overcome because my experience with baseball confirms it. Baseball is one of the most important sports to have good habits in. Developing sound fundamentals is key in baseball, whether that’s for your swing, or your mechanics in pitching, or fielding a ground ball. When I was younger, I developed very bad habits in both my swing and my pitching form. Getting out of those bad habits was very difficult. It would take me months of practice, and constantly thinking about the new techniques I implemented for myself to not allow my swing to revert back to its old form.
Bad habits are hard to break, but not impossible. Practicing everyday to break those habits, and rewarding yourself are great techniques to help you. The most important part of breaking a bad habit is yourself. There needs to be an intrinsic motivation to break those habits, because if only your parents are telling you to stop biting your nails, it will never stop. Patience is also very important because many habits take time to break and won’t be done within a day. That is why your self motivation is so important because that attitude needs to be present each day, or those habits will never be broken.
It is often said that breaking a habit is one of the hardest things to do, no matter how big or small that habit will be. It takes just about 3 days to fully stop doing something you’ve been doing every day. As I get older I tend to develop better habits than when I did when I was younger. Such as not doing my homework or studying for a test, and now it almost feels like if I don’t get home right away and study for that test, I most likely won’t succeed. It’s almost as if I am breaking than habit in order to be able to be the person I want to be today. That’s what it takes when it comes down to procrastination and distractions. The bad habits are hardships I have to deal with along with many other students when it comes down to every day life. But so far, as I’ve grown older and better about how to tackle these bad habits, it almost seems like I’d be able to accomplish anything. So when You look at how bad your habits are or how good they are, it really almost depends on how you see yourself and how far you think you can go to accomplish what you need to do. Even when it comes down to biting your fingernails or something as big as not studying that night before a final. If you can accomplish or get through a habit, you’ll be successful and succeed enough to be able to get
For me, one of the absolute worst habits that I have would be procrastination. With just about anything, this can range from the simplest of tasks such as doing laundry to finishing my homework on time. This is something that has stuck with me for a while, but only now has it begun to really be prominent in my life. You know the saying, “With age comes more responsibilities?“ Well for me it’s with age comes more procrastination. I’ve noticed how over the years it seemed to have gotten increasingly worse, which also beats into my grades at school and overall my happiness as a person. It keeps me scrambling to get things done at the last minute and it keeps me from putting my all into what I do and it’s very upsetting, it’s almost like I have an invisible rope around me restricting me from getting anything done. I physically feel heavy, like a weight is crushing my motivation. I’m hoping to find a way to break this habit, because this isn’t who I am at all. It sends a very bad impression of me as a person to people, and it makes me worry. What will happen when I’m an adult?
@Noel Fox I always procrastinate until the very last second, or later. I’ve been doing this since elementary school and it has gotten worse over the years for me too. I’ll tell myself I’ll do my homework right when I get home and then I don’t do it until the class before it’s due! I’m very worried for college because at this rate I will never get anything done. I think that it’s important to remember WHY you are doing the work.
@Katie Exactly. And because I have an older sister who is the exact opposite, it’s a bit discouraging. I am always scrambling at the very last second to complete assignments and more often than not I end up turning in my assignments three or four days past the due date, which I also know frustrates my teachers as well.
Our daily subconscious decisions are dictate how we go about our day and the conscious decisions that we make in our daily lives. Personally, my worst habit is hitting the “snooze” button on my alarm clock for simply five extra minutes getting my beauty sleep. Even on days I plan on doing productive activities in the morning, my “snooze” button often wins out. Although it may not seem much, that five minutes wasted in bed often leads to how I feel throughout the day. When waking up to my alarm, I am able to take a bit more time getting ready and eat a sufficient breakfast, making me feel much more refreshed and ready for my day at school. But, when I take that five extra minutes of shut eye, I am much more rushed in the morning - taking a quick shower, rushing to brush my teeth, eating breakfast on the way out the door - and I tend to feel more groggy throughout my day. Bad habits are difficult to break, but make a commitment to yourself to better your life and wake up at 6:30 instead of 6:35.
I don't think that i have as many good habits as i have bad habits in my daily life, as i do not find that i spend my time wisely or find myself in a healthy place to be in. I find myself after every time that i fail to successfully change my unhealthy habits. every time i fail i find myself in a deep state of hatred for myself and my lack of willpower to change.
I see all these transformation videos on Youtube, where people become fit from being overweight, and i want the same for myself, but alas i cannot force myself to do the necessary exercise to lose weight or stop myself from eating terrible snacks that set me back in progress.
But I feel that if i had someone who would run the long road of losing weight with me, and strive to push me to my goals and him to his. Then i would be able to go out and jog a mile around the neighborhood and restrict my bad eating habits. This would be great, but unfortunately I cannot find anyone who is willing to do this alongside me, as everyone is already there or do not care about their shape like I do.
My Older brother went through it at about my age without anybody, but he is different, him and I, and he was able to push himself through the pain to reach his goal. Now, he is in the best shape of his life and has come in first in two separate 5K races. Meanwhile I am stuck with this self loathing as i feel i am trapped in the prison of my own mind, unable to break the bars that are my bad habits.
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@Matthew Byrnes from seeing the process of weight loss from different people, it has never started from going straight at it. it all starts with building the mindset of change so that change like weight loss is possible. And sometimes there are big mental changes that have to be made and I think that changing your mindset of your view of goals and progression as well as body image are vital to making a big difference for your future. And if you want to go to the gym, make or set a few days a week and commit to those few days and making progress in those few days but be able to create a consistency so that you can eventually go more days.
@Matthew Byrnes Personally before I knew I could make a commitment to changing my body image I realized that it wasn't just the dieting and bodybuilding, it was the mindset I had to build to be able to develop good habit of bodybuilding as well as mental and physical health. And to make progress, its independent of yourself to make sure you're eating and dieting right, which cant be said for lifting. Developing the positive mindset for change and taking action despite the circumstances are what not only achieve the goal at work but build the bridge for succession.
@Matthew Byrnes
It's hard to hear what pain your body image has put you through. I can't claim to completely understand your struggle, but I do know what it is like to have a toxic self image. I myself have struggled with an eating disorder in the past, and I'm lucky to say that I've since recovered. Self hatred is just as much a bad habit as eating extra or not enough. I'd have to suggest to you that you should slowly work towards change by setting small goals and not putting too much pressure on yourself. The path to changing bad habits isn't a straight line. There are always set backs, but that's okay because it in no way defines your character or means you'll never shake those habits. If you want things to change then all you need is motivation and self respect. You got this!
I bite my nails, peel off my nail polish, shake my leg, usually have music blasting in between my skull, and procrastinate. I have many bad habits but when I see trash I pick it up, I keep up with local and national politics, go to track almost every day, and complete my choirs without complaining.
I like to think that my good habits outweigh my bad ones due to the fact that my negative habits rarely affect anyone other than myself. By that I mean I'm not biting somebody else's nails but my teacher and friends probably hate my procrastination.
I believe that everyone should set expectations for them self and the new year that follows which can include a new workout routine or even the plan to become vegetarian. Personally, I have broken the habit of constantly checking social media which I completed by deleting all my irrelevant applications including Snapchat and Instagram. I still have my account information in case I want to return but I enjoy the lack of weight on my shoulders which were caused by those apps. I envy those who can just put down their phone and not crave their entertainment software which I find to be Netflix.
If you are thinking or wanting to get rid of a nasty habit in your life, I suggest talking to your parents or peers and finding new habits to replace the old. Once you relieve yourself of them, you'll feel better. Trust me.
You would think that developing a good habit is much easier than developing a bad one. However it is seen in many students that the opposite is true. One could argue that bad habits are easier to develop because they grant a person instant happiness, while good habits can take a while, and many days of doing them to grant good feelings. I’m a prime example myself. I developed a horrible habit of procrastinating. I will get distracted so easily by almost anything when doing my homework, or studying for a test, and bad habits are extremely difficult to break, as it is very possible for them to turn into an addiction.
@Zack Noland
I do the exact same thing! I think that allowing these bad habits to take root in my subconscious is definitely easier than allowing good habits to take root, and procrastinating is my main bad habit every single day after school. This habit turns into an addiction because it gives a momentary, false sense of relief, as though there isn’t really anything pressing to get to, and I can just relax and finish my work later. Just doing the work may be smarter, but it tends to feel as though if I start now I’ll be working until the time I have to sleep, and it creates this stressful sense of urgency. I think the reason we get into these bad habits is because, on some level, we don’t think they’re hurting us as much as they really are.
Habits are really tough. You do something once, it’s all good. You do something twice, you think you’ve learned your lesson, and then BAM! You’re doing something every single day because you’ve developed a terrible habit.
Good habits are even worse, though. Not because they’re easy to make, but for the exact opposite. You vow to go to bed earlier. You promise to keep your room clean. You decide to exercise more often. You do it once, it’s all good. You do it twice, you’re feelin it. You miss it one single day, and BAM! All of a sudden, you’re back to where you were.
I like to think of habits from a psychological perspective. Habits arise as a result of conditioning over the course of our lives- whether it be waking up at 6 everyday, stopping at McDonald’s for breakfast, or showering before bed- habits tend to arise from unnoticed conditioning we undergo. It’s not big, it’s not always intentional, it’s not always prominent, but the tiny, perceived risk/reward relationship we associate with habits causes us to become so set in our ways.
Habits are really tough. Consciously developing habits requires thought, dedication, and effort. Consciously breaking habits requires thought, dedication, and effort. I have a lot of bad habits and not too many good ones, so it’s high time I start building new healthy habits.
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Habits both good and bad can lead people to define who we are; a person who has a habit of cleaning is a neat freak, and someone with a habit of leaving their clothes on the floor is a slob. While this may be true to some extent habits can be changed for the better. I used to be extremely unorganized and unable to find important papers for school, but once I realized I had a bad habit, and set my mind towards fixing it, I’m happier. People, especially my teachers, took notice of how prepared I was and were impressed. While I may never be the most organized person on the planet or even come close, the point is habits can change and so can people’s perspective, so if you think that a bad habit is holding you back don’t be afraid to do something about it.
Honestly I am very lazy. Sticking to habits I try to force upon myself is a very difficult task for me. I am definitely the type of person who makes a new years resolution and breaks it in the first week. This is one of the things I hate most about myself. The habits I have now are things that slowly developed over time or I have always had. Saying these habits are necessarily bad would be false however. One of the worst ones is always being the one to say sorry even if it wasn't my fault and forgiving too easily. This has been a habit I have only developed in the last 3 years but it has affected my life the most. It causes me to be emotionally exhausted sometimes for constantly forgiving and having my emotions just bottled up because I don't express them when I need to. In the recent weeks this has caused so much stress on me overall.
Most of my habits are things like the one mentioned, some being less significant than others. I have trouble trying to form new better ones. In the article it says to stick you're new habits on other ones so it is easier adapted. This method will definitely be used for me in the coming weeks to try and build better, healthier habits.
@Kali Hatcher I am also very lazy, I can relate so much to this. I as well have a problem of saying sorry and forgiving people even if it is not my fault.
I have good habits and bad habits when I wake up I get ready to brush my teeth, do my hair, then I go to my room and read the bible that one of my good habits. Not all the time when it comes to school days I just wakeup really fast get ready sometimes I forget to get my breakfast and head out to go to school that's one of my bad habits. I am trying to wake up on school days and read the bible but its so hard because I don't have the energy to wake up super early. so it's a new good habit am trying to have.
Many people assume that breaking unhealthy habits is simple, but that is far from the truth. When I was young, I used to bite my nails as a nervous habit. My mom always told me to stop, and that I was damaging my nails. I would listen to her, and stop at the moment, or for a few hours, but the very next day I was back at it again. I continued this until I was 10 years old. When I, myself, decided that I wanted to quit biting my nails because it hurt constantly and my hands did not look “ladylike”. I succeeded. One day, six years ago, I decided this is what I wanted to do, and I never bit my nails again. I realized then, that to break a bad habit, you need to make that decision for yourself. No matter how many times an outside force told me to stop, whether it be my mom or the bandaids wrapped around my fingers, it had to start internally.
Most people tend to believe that creating a good habit is much easier than creating a bad one. I mean how hard can it be? You’re in control right? Wrong! Although creating good habits is very manageable it is not as easy as most make it out to be. With making good habits comes frustration, regret and just a loss in interest. Things such as these thoughts are the exact ones that make your good habits turn rotten. From reading this article I have realized that while forming a beneficial habit we need to stop dwelling on the feeling of “I don’t feel like it” and laziness to emphasizing progress. Like Ms. Parker Poke had said “rewards are an important part of habit formation” and for every small step forward we should reward ourselves with a reminder of progress. The habits we struggle to form will become the habits we see as routine. It takes time and resilience, but is worth the wait.
I think that habits are necessary for living a balanced life. However, some of these habits can be bad and if they are done everyday, they continue to get harder and harder to break. This could also be said about good habits because the more you do good habits, the easier they are to do. One example of a good habit for me is strength training in school because we workout everyday. At first it was difficult to do but after a while it became easier and now I’m actually looking forward to having a good workout. A bad habit for me is procrastinating because I will look at my phone and then I look back up and an hour has magically passed. I think the key to breaking bad habits and starting new ones is starting out small and being consistent instead of trying to drastically change the way you live.
Common sense seems to dictate that doing your homework once you get home from school is the best plan of attack for completing homework, but no matter how hard I try I can simply not create this habit. Most days, I don’t have time to do homework once I get home from school. When in season, sports takes up the majority of after school time and I usually don’t end up at home until around six o’clock. By that time, I’m eating dinner with my family, hoping in the shower, and preparing to relax. After that long eleven hour day, the last thing that’s on my mind is studying and completing homework assignments. However, even when my sport is not in season, I still cannot muster the focus and determination to do my homework once I get home. There’s so many distractions and things that I would simply rather due. The only possible way I think I could develop this habit is if I was struggling with turning in my assignments. Doing my homework at ten o’clock at night is going strong for me right now so I’m not really looking for a major habit change.
With every new year comes a new set of expectations that you put on yourself, resolutions you strive to keep, habits that you want to form. How strong of a grasp do you really have on these habits and expectations? Habits remind people of commitment, and commitment scares many people. Sure, there are bad habits like biting your nails, snacking, and procrastinating, but if you strive to let your good habits, like eating healthy, complimenting others, or exercising, ahead of your bad habits, this “commitment” can turn out to be a positive change in your life. How do you decipher what healthy habits are necessary for you in your life? Go through your daily schedule...do you feel at any point in your day that you could be doing something better or that something may be missing? Make a note and change it. Though studies show that habits take a couple months to form, if persistent, these habits can feel less like an obligation and more like a fun change of pace. So, grab that apple, finish your last squat, and thank your mom for her hardwork.
I no longer make New Year’s resolutions. I find them too hard not to break, because it seems as if everything is on the line, one mess up ruins the resolution and invalidates the purpose. Same with Lent. I find it hard to go from living one way for several months, and switching when the clock strikes 12:00. I find it easier to take my time, prepare, and then one day I say enough is enough. For instance, last month I gave up biting my nails. I didn’t like how it looked, I didn’t like how it felt, and I was embarrassed. So I hit a “rock bottom” of sorts (I know, how lame), and I haven’t looked back. Same with working out. I find I very spontaneously attach myself to goals I might be ill-prepared to handle, especially when I try a new physical activity, but working out I new would make me feel stronger and happier, so one day I decided to move some weights into my bathroom, placed them where I’d see them everyday, and now, whenever I find I have time, I lift small grey ten-pound weights.
You would think that most people have more bad habits than good because of the lack of effort they require and instant gratification they bring, and when you look to assess your own habits you may think this way about yourself as well; always eating dessert after dinner, procrastinating work every night, or waking up to instantly look at your phone. While many people posses these or similar bad habits, they also have so many good habits; waking up and brushing their teeth, taking daily vitamins, feeding the dog. Many people tend to overlook the good habits they form and focus on breaking the bad. In my experience, self praise and pride helps me through any situation, if I am content with or proud of something that I do, I feel unstoppable. So, before beating yourself up about a bad habit, take a step back to take into account all your good habits. Having a feeling of this pride towards all my good habits, makes me want to build upon this list by breaking my bad habits, and this self-reflection may also work for others.
@Kate Morris It's always easier to focus on the bad, but it is so important to give yourself some credit sometimes. Too often, people get too caught up in silly things that they are struggling with and lose sight of the positive things in their life. I think that everyone should start trying to create the good habit of staying in the moment and always trying to find the positives in a situation.
I think your advice is really well said and I think other people will start feeling the same way as you if they adopt some of your habits, like finding pride in something you accomplished. This can be overlooked sometimes and some people may think that it’s easier to say than to do, which is true, but the article also mentions great ways in which everyone can improve, including myself. The article recommends to tie never habits to existing ones, which seems pretty simple and do-able. It’s good to at least try to incorporate some of these methods into your lifestyle, especially considering the fact that Lent is coming up soon.
Getting out of bed in the morning seems to be a daily struggle for me. I always ask myself, “WHY AM I SO TIRED”, but then my recollection of 2am YouTube videos manifests in my thoughts and I realize why I can barley open my eyes. I’d say my bedtime, yes I said bedtime, is one of my many habits that I hate. The thing we were all thought to do when we were born, going to bed, is a daily struggle for me. If I didn’t have theater class to wake me up half way through my school day I would probably be a lost cause. I wish I could go to bed at a reasonable hour, you’d think that someone so tired throughout their day would be able to get some sleep but that’s the one thing I can’t do. I’ve gone on “hot streaks” where I’ve gone to bed at ten and gotten an ample amount of sleep but the next week I’ll find myself watching another Netflix show or YouTube video not realizing it’s already the next day. I don’t know how I will solve this problem, maybe I will find the person who cursed me with the inability to sleep or maybe I will just have to bare through it. Wish me luck.
I assume your issue is that you enjoy the night and enjoy watching youtube and netflix shows but you don't enjoy the morning because you have to get up and go straight to school. one solution I can offer you is to wake up earlier-it sounds backwards- but if you wake up earlier you will have time to watch youtube in the morning and wake you up in the morning before you head off for school. This has worked for me, along with caffeine in the morning. You need something to look forward to in the morning so going to sleep doesn't seem so much as the end of the good times. You also need to treat school as an activity during the day and not as the start of the day. it's not, I'm going to get up and go to school but I am going to get up and enjoy myself and then around 8 am go learn some stuff for a few hours and then come back home. THe world is all about perspective and simply adjusting yours is a good way to improve your life.
My whole life I’ve heard that breaking a habit taker 66 days to do and that forming a habit takes 14 days. Now I’m not so sure these facts are correct but with my background knowledge and personal experiences, I know that forming a habit is much easier than breaking one. In my experiences some of the unhealthy habits that I form are taking place without my full knowledge. When attempting to break a habit I usually try to balance it out with another habit to get my mind off of the previous one. I used to crack my knuckles every second of everyday, but slowly I gained a new habit of biting my nails (which is worse) and I don’t crack my fingers all of the time. Personally I believe that this is an unhealthy strategy and I should fully motivate myself to what I want to form or break.
It is often said that high schoolers do not get enough sleep. Last year I had great difficulty falling asleep because I was so stressed out and my mind would always wander when I would try to fall asleep. I was getting frustrated with this bad habit of lying in bed awake for hours past when I intended to be asleep, so recently I have been trying to develop better sleeping habits. I found that going to sleep at the same time each night and maintaining small daily rituals before going to sleep helped regulate my sleep schedule. Each night I make tea before I go to sleep. I believe that associating simple tasks that you are in control of with the habit you are trying to develop can be very helpful.
@Colleen Shanahan I also have recently changed my sleeping habits for the better. I always try to start my homework at 7pm each night to avoid needing to stay up late and do it. Sleep fully dictates how my day goes, so I find it extremely important to get a full 8 or 9 hours each night.
Keeping a good sleep cycle is a habit that’s not easily created. Once you go to bed later and later, it gets kind of addicting. Those hours at night just sitting on your bed with a phone or computer and feeling like sleep is unimportant. When I have a busy night, like a track meet or event, I end up going to sleep later than I’d like to and wake up tired. The next day I always feel like its harder to get into bed early and I’m tempted to do other things.
Bad habits, like messed up sleep cycles, are hard to get out of. Sometimes you need a motive to just get in bed earlier. Setting an alarm for these things can help.
@Mollie Brinker I also have had trouble falling asleep in the past. I wouldn't be able to fall asleep until very late at night and I would be really tired the next day. Now I take melatonin every night to sleep.
Many people assume that making healthy habits can just happen without thought. But what we don’t pay attention to is all the bad habits that come with ones. For example, after a workout in order to get in shape, one cannot just reward themselves with junk food because that is defeating the purpose of getting in shape. So while you’re creating one good habit, working out, you are also creating a bad one, rewarding with junk food. I have had my fair share of trying to build new healthy habits, but have failed due to the fact that I did not set myself up for success. There are times where I tell myself that while I’m doing homework, after I respond to a text from my friend, it will be my last response until I finish an assignment. But the cycle continues and I just keep telling myself it’s the last response and next thing you know I’m 10 texts over what I planned on sending. This comes from not setting myself up for success because I don’t give myself any repercussions, so at the moment I’m send g those texts, I see no harm being done until it’s late at night and I’m still up doing my homework.
I agree with everything that Parker-Pope says, such as the importance of starting small and stacking one's habits, however I believe that the most important part is to keep in mind why you are trying to create these healthy habits. If you don't understand your own motivations behind why you are doing something, you probably won't keep it up. For example, some people want to just become the best they can be, or sometimes it's for their family. By remembering your motivation, you will be able to sift through which habits are worth it to you and which aren't. This can also help break bad habits. By focusing on how they damage you or others around you, you can remember that damage whenever you start to fall back into a bad habit.
Americans today tend to believe that in order to make a habit you must focus on an idea of repetition, that if you don’t repeat the task over and over and can’t become a habit. While this is true I believe that making a habit takes more than just repetition. I believe that motivation is the key to creating a habit. If you can’t find it within yourself to achieve whatever task you set out to accomplish, or even dread the thought of having to do whatever it may be that you want to make a habit, then what is the purpose. In order for a habit to be successful, it needs to be meaningful. You need motivate yourself to form a habit. If you aren’t excited about the idea of setting out and accomplishing you goal, then there is not point. Make yourself want to do it. Take pride in what you are doing and don’t just do it lazily because you think it would be good for you, commit to it because you want to. Do it to better yourself.
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healthy habits are very important because they help you keep a routine to start your morning. the best way to make a new goal and to complete it is to make a s.m.a.r.t. goal. Specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, timely.
Everyone has bad habits, that’s just the way it is. The way to overcome these bad habits is to know what they are and plan out the way you will get over them. I know that I definitely have my fair share of bad habits but I also feel that I make up for some of them with the activities I do. Being a three sport athlete in high school, it means that I don’t have much free time throughout the week. I practice every day after school, lift twice a day, and still have to do my homework. Although I have such a tight schedule I still procrastinate and often play games on my iPad or watch tv instead of getting my homework done. Everyone has their strengths and everyone has their weaknesses. The key to overcoming bad habits is to know that they are and to plan out ways to get over them.
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My whole life I’ve heard that sleeping and eating habits are the most important ones to make healthy. Ever since my abnormal sleeping schedule has been brought to my attention numerous times, people continue to say “you’ll regret this” or “that’s so unhealthy”. This one seemingly bad habit may not be so bad after all. Some research shows that productivity is highest early in the morning (with the right amount of consistent sleep) and about 2-3 hours after you have woken up. This is both a good and bad habit for me. Because I go to sleep so early, I can miss spending a lot of time with family and friends. However, academically, my schedule has proven to be very beneficial because I do not endure the distractions I would have during the afternoon, thus my studying is more efficient. In school, if I feel the need to do homework before and after I fall asleep, I can be tired due to lack of sleep but that is true regardless of my sleep schedule. I can still find time to be with family and friends, have a job, volunteer, be in after school activities, sports, do my homework, and do well in school.
Talking about habits makes me wonder why I don’t have that many healthy habits. Everyday it goes the same way I go to school, then sports and it’s very repetitive and I don’t feel like I’m giving my body enough time to relax. To start healthy habits I want to go to bed earlier and make it a habit to turn my phone off at a certain time so I can get some beauty sleep.
My whole life, my parents have berated me over how little sleep I get. They remind me every night to get to bed at a “decent” hour and have even resorted to emailing me scientific articles on the long term effects of sleep deprivation. I desperately want to get at least 8 hours of sleep, but my schedule and workload often preclude me from this goal. I know that I will continue to struggle with getting ample sleep, so I want to do everything in my power to try to improve the quality of what rest I do get. I assume that this will include changing my bedtime routine and sleeping conditions. I’ve tried to stretch and do just five minutes of yoga before bed, but this habit has never stuck. I want to be the type of person who reads a chapter of a novel before bed, yet I often find myself too tired at the end of the night to comprehend anything I read. Maybe it starts with something as simple as a cup of tea half an hour before bed, even if I’m still doing homework, to get my mind and body in the right sleep mindset. More often than not, sleep feels like a survival obligation to me, something that happens nightly in between what really matters. Perhaps my better-sleep-quality habit should start with prioritizing sleep as an important activity in its own right. For now, I’m willing to try a little of everything. Yoga one night, reading the next, a cup of tea after that. Habit building can take all sorts of methods to be effective, so why not try a variety of them.
I never really thought about it until now but I have a lot of good habits that most kids my age don’t have. First, on a school day for breakfast I have a protein shake. I have made the same exact protein shake for 5 years. If it is not a school day I try to eat something like eggs or pancakes. Secondly, I have a good habit of staying away from vapes and or juuls I don’t agree with vaping for kids my age and do my best to avoid it. Finally, I have a habit of going to bed at exactly 11:00 and waking up around 7:00 so I can get exactly 8 hours of sleep every night.
When it comes to goood and bad habits, I useally see myself doing both. The think I do when I wake up is that I know what to do but, I don't remeber not do like taking my meds at six or before and taking it at night.
I believe I have more good habits than bad ones. same as my brothers I recognize that I am forming bad habits and I commit to stop. I think its easier to make good habits because they are beneficial to our lives or they won't be called good habits.
When it comes to me if I have more healthy or bad habits I have to say more healthy. I start my day at 7:30 am and I brush my teeth, take a shower, and pack my bag for school. I get to school at 8 am and I eat breakfast till I start class at 8:30 am. I go one with my school day till 3 pm then I head to a friend's house for a couple of hours. Then at 6:30 pm, I start martial arts till 8 pm. I finish that and go home to eat dinner, take another shower, finish homework, workout, brush my teeth and go sleep. This all happens from 8 pm to 2 am. then I start my day again. For my bad habits, I say I really on have a few including procrastinating, sleeping late at night (that is due to my insomnia), and not paying attention as much as I should in class are the only ones I can think of. Some habits I tried to start but failed I'd say would be going to the beach more, being more consistent on working out after martial arts, and trying to sleep earlier but these have all failed due to my homework workload and my busy schedule to where I get burnt out during the day and I have no motivation to do most of them.
I definitely have my fair share of bad habits, but one good habit that I started at the beginning of 2019 as a new years resolution was to try journaling. I fell in love with it immediately and have continued to write almost every day. I usually write at night to unwind and reflect on the day I have had. It is nice to be able to express my feelings and opinions with no judgement. But when it comes to new things, the hardest part for me is to continue doing a task that I have newly started; however, writing became easy and a part of my routine because I truly enjoy it. Finding a good habit or hobby that you are passionate about can be extremely beneficial. At least for me, writing has helped me form my own opinions, express my feelings, and it has allowed me to find a version of myself I did not know existed. The right habits can help you find who you are.
When it comes to good and bad habits, I find myself with a mixture of both. One thing I do, which was also mentioned by the article, is eat an apple everyday. When I pack my bag for school each morning, I ensure there is a cut-up apple, or any healthy fruit, for snack. A second good habit I have relates to schoolwork. The first thing I do when I return from school or any extracurricular activities I have is homework. Although some classes I procrastinate, I do my best to finish any homework as soon as possible. These habits are both positive and useful. However, I have many negative habits as well. Small but poor habits I catch myself with include biting my nails when nervous and constantly tapping my fingers. One large issue I find myself doing routinely is checking my phone. Whether I am in school, working on homework, or watching a movie, my phone is always within reach. Even with notifications turned off I am constantly opening my phone, sometimes even subconsciously. Overall, I would say I have an equal number of good and bad habits. Employing some of the strategies suggested in the article, such as starting small and growing bigger to fix bad habits, may be useful to minimizing these negative habits.
@Amelia Boeh You have some good habits I like that you eat an apple a day. Staying healthy and keeping a good diet is a crucial thing to staying happy and living a good life. Good for you Amelia!
Without a doubt I am fully aware that I have more bad habits than good ones. As a senior in high school I’ve most definitely gotten into some lazy habits. I eat way too late at night, I don’t regularly do my homework, I’d rather just put my dishes in the sink than right into the dishwasher, I bite my nails- the list goes on. However, the bright side is that college is just around the corner and changing ones scenery can help with creating new habits.
This coming fall when I start college I’m hoping to get into the better routines and pick up some better habits. I’d love to start eating healthier, going to be earlier, stay on top of my work and start working out more regularly. I know these are pretty basic, but I believe that if I put my mind to it and step outside of my bad habits to strive for the better ones I’ll be able to dramatically enhance my whole quality of life.
When push comes to shove, I don’t think we as people need to look down so harshly on all of our bad habits because they help us appreciate the good things about ourselves. It’s super important to be aware of what habits are good and bad and how each habit can help us grow as a whole person.
I have heard it takes 21 days to form a habit. But even that seems too quick. Habits are so ingrained in us we often don’t realize we’re even doing them. I don’t think I’m alone in saying that I have more bad habits than good ones. People tend to gravitate towards things that are comforting, watching tv, snacking, smoking cigarettes, all bad habits, but when we do them we feel comforted. Healthy habits on the other hand, eating veggies, doing yoga, studying, will all make us better in the long run but doing them is not fun. We all crave instant gratification, it’s hard to see into the future instead of giving into our current wants. As a teenager, this is especially difficult, we deal with a lot, and our prefrontal cortex is not fully developed, which influences decision making and impulse behaviors. The bottom line is, good habits take work and dedication, bad habits are so easy to fall into, no wonder we tend to choose the bad ones.
I would say I have more bad habits than good ones. I would have to say my best habit is my exersise routine.I would say I have more bad habits than good ones. I would have to say my best habit is my exercise routine. my worst habit is my tendency to be lazy. I lack motivation to do much.
I don’t know if my good habits necessarily outweigh my bad ones, but I do know I am always trying to improve. One good habit I have started is drinking two liters of water a day. It took me a while to make this a habit, especially since I’m at school part of the day and I simply just forgot, but after making sure to bring a bottle of water to school everyday and putting it on my desk so I was reminded, it became a part of my routine. The worst part about starting a new habit is maintaining it—especially because we often get lazy and don’t look at long term effects these healthy habits could bring us. But you have to have an open mind as well as be committed when starting or even quitting a habit, remembering it will eventually pay off.
I believe that I have good habits than bad because I can recognize the bad ones and stop them before they even become a habit and I think its easier to make a good habit because they are more beneficial in our lives.
As the article stated, my strongest habits are part of my morning routine. Every day I wake up sometime between 7:00 and 7:30 so that I can get up, brush my teeth, and get dressed. My healthiest habit is the routine I have for working out. every other day I get exercise in working with the equipment at my house. I think that the most important factor when establishing a habit is to have a clear idea of why you want to start doing something. Many people say "I want to work out so that I am healthier," although being healthier is a good goal it is important to remember why exactly you want to be healthier. For me personally, I have kept in mind that my goal is to improve my performance while playing soccer.
In my experience, I always develop bad habits without any complications, whether it’s thinking too much about insignificant things or procrastinating on my homework. Although, these habits are easy to come by, I always attempt to block them for taking over my life by doing something productive. When I begin to overthink in a way that is never beneficial for me, I completely block anything that is making me overthink and engage in activities like exercising or re-decorating my room. Despite my bad habits, I always keep in mind everything that needs improving and I’m conscious of the areas in my life in which I need to focus my attention on a little more. Good habits don’t develop overnight but if you find motivation and a reason to develop them, there’s no limit to the benefits these habits can bring.
I think I might have just as many good habits as bad ones. I have some good habits, such as making it to Crossfit whenever I can, but I also have some not-so-good ones, such as staying up until 11:00 every night. I am not the best at creating new healthy habits, but I have been able to create new ones before. They haven’t all worked out, but some of them have, and I still have them today. I think the most useful ones are “Do it every day” and “reward yourself”. If you do these new habits every day, they will eventually just become a part of your daily routine. And if you reward yourself for doing these habits, then you get more motivation to do them again. None of these tips really look hard to do, and they all have their own positive effects. I have broken bad habits a few times before. I don’t really know of any other habits that I might want to have, but if I had to get rid of one, it would be the habit of staying up until 11:00 every night.
In my opinion I have an equal amount of both good and bad habits. In often times I find that people tend to do more bad habits than good ones, the reason for that maybe due to the fact that good habits are more of a goal, something that can be achieved through working hard. As for bad habits, it's more of "easy way out" or "short cut". For me, having motivation is the biggest key when making good habits and it takes just the slightest disbelief to start making bad habits.
I have a terrible habit of trying to do something new but then automatically giving up. Example: I really wanted to learn French because one of the shows I watch is in French, but after downloading Duolingo and trying it out for a couple of days, I got over it and lost interest. This has happened on many accounts such as the violin, embroidery, dance, etc. I guess I have a bad habit of not forming habits? But then again, I believe everyone who isn't motivated enough has that habit. I know the things I want to do aren't impossible, I just don't have the solid determination to do so. Random thought: I have a great habit of drinking water every day because water is ALL I drink. The taste and texture soda leaves in my mouth feels like acid so I always order a tall glass of water. And because of that, my skin is clear and I feel better about myself.
Trying to build healthy habits is hard, but one of the more difficult things I've noticed about them is not how to form them. It's forming them for the right reasons. I know many people who can have a healthy habit and maintain it, but for the wrong reasons and that can be detrimental. I believe it is important to reflect on why you want to pursue certain habits.
I think that I have more good habits than bad. While I find it hard to break old habits, making new ones is fairly easy for me. Easily making new habits can both be a blessing and a curse in many instances as my habits generally develop early on when I'm learning something new, so if I am not conscious of the habits I am forming during that time more often than not I will develop bad habits. I think that the easiest way for me to form good habits is through a routine. Doing something over and over again takes a lot of conscious effort to start, but over time you stop noticing it, and it becomes a habit. The best way I've found to break a habit was by finding ways to dissuade myself from it. I would paint my nails when I wanted to stop biting at them, or not carry cash if I wanted to stop eating cheap junk food.
I think I have a match when it comes to good and bad habits. Such as I'll go to the gym every day and run on a treadmill but I'll spend all the time on social media which for e is a bad habit. Instead of habits, I believe myself to be better at starting new lifestyles such as minimalism something I started at the beginning of high school. I remember reading something about it taking 21 days to create a habit and 90 days to create a lifestyle. To me, I think my positive and negative habits cancel each other out. I have however started bad habits such as biting my nails without even acknowledging the fact I was doing it and before I knew it. it had become a bad habit of mine, so to cancel it out I started getting my nail's professionally taken care of to try and stop the habit which indeed did end it. For a good habit, I'd believe my diet choices have been better such as putting something in my water unconsciously making me want to drink more every day.
Its hard to cut a bad habit or begin a good one. I think a lot of my struggle comes from their point that we often try to pile a huge resolution on at once, and don’t take the best steps to success. I feel like I have more good then bad and Id say I'm alright in sticking to new good habits.
I think that the amount of bad habits I retain is much lower than the amount of good habits that I regularly practice, however I do feel that making bad habits is way easier than making good ones. I think this is because of the way delayed gratification and a persons discipline work. Usually when good habits are formed it's out of your personal will to achieve a long term goal or some type of betterment. On the other hand I think most bad habits are simply “short cuts” or a means to a very easy stressful end. This leads me to believe that people with low amounts of self control or discipline have a weaker ability to establish healthy, beneficial, and lasting habits. I think this ability to have a strong will as well as sacrifice your short term comfort for a greater return in the long run is priceless. It’s not always easy to deny yourself comfort and familiarity but the reward in the end could be exponentially sweeter.
I think I have more bad habits than good ones. While it’s a little too hard to think of the good habits I have, I can list off a few of my bad habits much easier: procrastinating, staying up late despite being exhausted, using my phone while I’m supposed to be doing homework. I do try to wean myself off of the bad habits and adopt more good habits, but I often end up giving up on them because I lose motivation. I definitely would have liked to try learning and sticking to new, healthier habits, but I’ve never known how. Parker-Pope offered very intuitive tips for building healthier habits, the most interesting of which I found to be stacking your habits. I’ve never considered this strategy before, but it appeals to me because it seems to be time efficient. Combining new habits to existing ones also allows learning the new habit to be a little easier because you are associating it with something you already do with ease. I will definitely be using some of Parker-Pope’s tips to form and hopefully stick to healthier habits.
I think that I have a lot more good habits, than I do bad habits. My worst habit is that I procrastinate, I’m not really sure when I started to procrastinate, but I know that it started sometime during middle school. My best habit is that I don’t like to be disorganized, so I usually always know when my things are, and never really misplace anything.
I’m not very good at building healthy habits, because I never really actually follow through with them, I usually start, then stop after about a week.
The article provides many good tips on how to build healthy habits, like starting small with tiny habits and working your way up. I may consider using this tactic in the future. The hardest for me to practice is doing it every day because this is a tactic that I usually use, but it never really ends up working out.
The only bad habit that I’ve ever broken is tongue thrusting, but I've only broken this because the orthodontics placed a tongue crib in my mouth, to prevent my tongue from thrusting out.
I wish that I had a habit of always finishing my work early, because if I were to finish my work early I would have a lot more free time, and I wouldn’t have to worry about doing it later. I could start by starting small, and working my way up.
I find both cutting a bad habit or beginning a good one to be extremely difficult. I think a lot of my struggle comes from their point that we often try to pile a huge resolution on at once, and don’t take the best steps to success, something that has never occurred to me before. Another difficulty in the forming of a good habit is the interim period where you are trying to make it a habit— taking 18-256 days— and let alone hundreds of days of forcing a task to become habitual, just a week of doing so is quite difficult.
Making good habits has been very hard for me. I think many people my age can probably understand and share some bad habits such as procrastination, choosing healthy foods, using social media extensively and so much more. And a lot of the reason why we have these bad habits is, from what I’ve noticed at least, a matter of convenience, what is easiest, what is quickest. As a junior in high school, I have faced many late nights, whether it be with homework or school activity’s or just other commitments in general, I know that choosing the convenient options (not necessarily good options) allows for timeliness which is often what leads to the bad habits. The thing that people must realize, is that you must learn time management in order to form good habits. Somethings that have helped me lately is making a todo list, and forcing yourself to do what you need to do, do this for a week or two and you will gradually get into a regular routine and get motivation to maintain good habits.
While starting new habits are hard especially in times such as in the morning they get easier overtime. I always keep this in mind when starting new good habits as well as trying not to start new bad habits as well. The more you do it the easier it gets. As people I believe we condition our bodies to endure certain things in our life such as working out, running as well as simple daily tasks like waking up early in the morning and going to bed early. I personally believe I have a decent balance in my good and bad habits as it is hard for me to wake up early but I always am able to go to sleep at a reasonable hour. I also have a balance when it comes to work habits as I am alway able to get my work done and being proactive during school hours in my free periods but often push the work I have to do at home until later in the night.
Habits are relatively neutral in my life, but I do have a few positive and negative habits. One of my least favorite—yet favorite—habits is to stare at my phone. Whether I’m walking during a vacation, or in my room, it is common for me to be staring straight into my phone. Even if I am on the beachfront, I will still probably be on my phone. My number one habit is drinking water every time I think about it. I may not have more bad habits, but my bad habits are more effective than my good habits.
Developing new good habits is something I struggle with. I have my normal routines throughout the day that I like, but there are also bad habits I have that show up throughout my day, and I have a hard time changing them. I procrastinate all the time, and even though I know it's a bad habit and that it results in negative consequences I find it very difficult to change those habits. I think I set goals that are too ambitious, I do this because I want to change but most of the time I try to change too much at once and it overwhelms me and I give up. Reading the article and seeing how small progressions of change can lead to developing healthy habits reframes how I think about fixing some bad habits my life. I think starting small and building the confidence to know that I can change my habits will be the best way for me to start and to begin to see effective change.
I definitely think that I have more good habits than bad, especially when it comes to health. When you play a sport to be most successful you have to have good habits whether that’s diet or working out. You have to eat healthy and keep yourself in the best shape you can be. A major problem I see for students right now is the bad habit of procrastination, and when you play a sport there’s no time to procrastinate and right when you arrive home you have to begin your work unless you want to go to bed at 3 am. I feel like staying busy is a huge key to defeating bad habits and keeping the good ones. It doesn’t just take a day to develop a new good habit either, as you have to take small steps and achieve smaller goals do you can reach the overall goal. The most important thing if you want to create good habits is to set goals for yourself.
My good habits outnumber the bad, but my bad habits out weigh the good. My good habits include morning and night routines, work ethic, and muscle memory in sports. My bad habits include leaving the light on in a room, and leaving my clothes in the ground. Bad habits stay I’m your mind because you know they aren’t right, good habits get flushed and go to your subconscious. Bad habits have more of an impact and a shock factor than good habits do.
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Habits can be hard
It’s more fun to sit at home
Than to go do work
@Sarah Hess
That’s a nice haiku
And I agree with your point
Good habits are hard
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My bad habits outweigh the good habits. I can't even think of any good habits I have, to be honest. I have tried to change my habits, but I don't have a strong enough motivation. I procrastinate on many assignments and projects. This is my worst habit and I wish I could break it. Another habit is replacing breakfast and lunch (sometimes dinner) with coffee. 40 oz of coffee a day is not healthy but it keeps me energized and full. I also have a hard time getting myself to pray but I think I'm slowly getting there.
My tips on starting new or better habits is to start small if you need to, it’s okay to take baby steps. Everyone is different and some require taken small steps to reach their goal. Some can just jump into a new or better habit without needing to struggle. Whatever person you are, I believe looking at the habit and how you see yourself really determines if you will have a new or improved habit. Sometimes the easiest path is what leads into bad habits because starting a new habit or doing a good habit requires work and some aren’t willing to put in the work. Would you rather stay with the bad habit or not start a new habit that will improve your life? Or put in the work and fix the bad habit or start a new one that will improve your life for the better. What I would say is that to tell yourself this is worth it, I got this and why wouldn’t I do it if it’s going to improve my life
Lately, I have had many more good habits than bad ones. I often had found myself struggling to have an ample amount of good habits, but recently I have taken the step to include many great ones in my life. Personally, when I am more productive and maintaining a healthy lifestyle, I overall feel much more confident about myself and content with my life. For example, I have been exercising roughly five days a week, and eating quite healthy to help me feel physically refreshed. A reward for habits such as these would be the physical outcome in the long run, yet also after every workout I feel very refreshed which is a reward itself. This year, I have been trying to slowly incorporate other small habits that will ultimately make a huge difference in my life, such as going to bed at a decent hour, flossing, and staying more organized. With each new thing I include within my routine, I feel even better than I did before. At times it can be challenging to incorporate something new into my life, however I remind myself of the long term benefits that these habits will create, and even will set reminders for myself on my phone in order to keep up these habits, and overall have become more content with myself throughout the past year.
My good habits outweigh my bad habits, or at least I think that they do, but for this very reason this question is hard to answer. habits and their connotations are opinion based, meaning that people are allowed to judge how productive or not productive a habit or behavior is when it is regularly implemented in ones life. Basically the point IM trying to make is that the value or lack there of, of a certain activity is all situation based and perceptual. Some habits may also crossover into both categories depending on the situation and who you are surrounded by.
I would say that I ultimately have more good habits than bad habits. I’m one to stick to my routines and love getting into grooves that outline my day. My morning routine consists of the same things everyday, but I am willing to mix it up sometimes. One of my best habits is chugging water immediately after waking up. I drink a glass of water as soon as I am downstairs ready for school and find that it kick starts my morning and wakes me up. I formed this habit by tying this practice into a habit I’ve had for a while, which is my morning cup of coffee. When I started to want to drink more water, I would tell myself everyday that I cant have my coffee until I finish a glass of water. After doing this for multiple weeks I found drinking water in the morning to be second nature. On the other hand, a bad habit I have is biting my nails. When I get nervous or bored I tend to bite and pick at my nails until they look absolutely disgusting. I’ve done this for a while which makes it hard to even realize when I’m doing it. I hope to form new healthy habits during 2020 and will build these habits by taking small steps and forming them the right way. For example, I want to make yoga a more regular thing so I’ve decided to start going to class every Sunday with my mom to incorporate it into my schedule.
My good habits outnumber my bad ones. My best habit that I’m currently working on is journalism. Typically every night or in moments when I have an overwhelming feeling of anxiety. I acquired this habit after I received a beautiful journal as a gift and I decided that I needed a healthier way of talking about how I felt rather than posting on social media. I am still working on sticking to it but it’s one of the most rewarding tasks I do each day. The worst habit I have would be hiding my feelings. Which was the biggest source of motivation for starting to journal. I’m not very good at creating new habits because I have a hard time sticking to them. Forming better eating habits is a major thing I’ve been trying to work on but I’ve realized I haven’t taken the right steps to achieving it. I think the most useful tip is to start small. By adding onto the habits you’ve already created in order to form a new one. I should start by replacing some of my unhealthy snacks with healthier alternatives instead of trying to replace entire meals every day. The best way to break an old or bad habit is first to accept that it’s old/bad. Then you need to do your best to stay away from the things that cause you to perform that habit. At first it’s going to seem hard but if you stick with it then eventually it will be second nature to not do it.
I think I have more bad habits than good. For instance I will be like "Ok, I'm going to start my homework as soon as I get home so I can have it done before swim practice." Then next thing I know I'm home and I have already been there for 30 minutes, "Oh it's okay I tell myself, I'll start it in 10 minutes." Then the 10 minutes pass and I just procrastinate more until I hear my mom say, "We have to leave in 5 minutes." And then I start to stress because I realize I have nothing done. Then I just end up having to do it after swim practice causing me to stay up way too late. I've tried to break this habit multiple times but it can be really hard for me not to procrastinate.
@Bailey Hughes I also struggle with starting my homework when I get home. I’m always exhausted, especially after a productive day of school
I would say that I have more good habits than bad. From a young age I've had a morning and night routine which helps keep me on track as I get ready and wined down the day. I can be a little unorganized when something is on my mind in the morning and at night. I think having something to do keeps me grounded and I can focus more. Some nights I will write a list of things I need to take care of in the morning and it can be so rewarding to see a completed list before I leave the house. One of the bad habits I am trying to break is not being on my phone when I’m doing schoolwork. It is so easy for me to take a break from working and end up on my phone for hours. This has caused me to set timers for the amount of time I am on my phone which have significantly lowered how much time I was wasting. Attacking bad habits is only half the battle. Finding what works for you to combat your issue and then succeeding in it can be the most rewarding part.
@Katherine Lennon I wish that I had a consistent night and morning routine. I also will sometimes write lists of things to do so I know what I need to get done. But I couldn't relate to the phone thing more, I am constantly taking "breaks" during homework just to go on my phone. When in reality I don't need that break, I just want to go on my phone. I try to set time limits for me on my phone but once I'm on it I feel like time flies by. I hope that one day I will be as organized as you.
I'm not quite sure if I have more good or bad habits.My best habits I guess is praying every night before bed, my worst habit is taking too long to get ready in the morning. Neither of them really affect me. I'm not good at making new habits though, I've tried making healthy habits before like running every morning but it's not very easy to do certain things like that. When the author mentioned trying tiny habits it felt as if making new habits was more able to accomplish.
The worst habit I've ever had was biting my nails. I used to do it all the time when I was young. But when I noticed my cousin also bit his nails I started to not want to bite my nails anymore. I eventually just stopped biting my nails, and haven't done it since.
A habit I wish I had though, is working out more often, or even just being more active. I go to the park every now and then and ride my bike and walk, but I wish I was more active. This article helps me realize I need to make tiny habits because that will then lead to bigger and better habits.
@Velma Martinez I used to bite my nails as well. It wasn't until about a few months ago I stopped. It was a nervous habit I think. I'm glad that you stopped that bad habit.
I tend to make habits and have a hard time breaking them, good or bad. I think I could work out more, I run 2 miles each day of the week weather-permitting but I should focus on things like push ups and mainly sit ups. I think everyone has bad habits and in order to break them you have to go against what you feel is the norm to truly change, for example: I make my lunch at 8:00 at night on school nights, when summer started I used to randomly walk downstairs and not know what I was doing. After about 2 weeks of telling myself not to do that I no longer felt the urge to do it.
This is an interesting topic because there are so many different “bad” habits one can have. For me, when I think of bad habits, I think of biting my nails or not listening to people and zoning out when they’re talking to me.
I think that bad habits come from people being too hard on themselves. Cause when you think about it, who really cares if you bite your nails or not. It’s not a “bad habit”. But what is a “bad habit”? The definition is a negative behaviour pattern. So it’s behavioral. Bad habits just come with who we are. I can see how it would be hard to grow out of it without changing a part of us.
I think that I have more good habits than bad habits. I used to do my morning "routine" in a random way and it was get crazy and unorganized but I have created a set of good habits. Since I did this it has improved my organization and I have gotten more good habits then bad habits. I have looked at ways to add good habits to my life and have read that "stacking habits" to a time where you already have good habits is that best time to do it. I did this and it has improved my good habits.
I honestly think I have more good habits than bad, mostly because I’ve grown out of the bad ones. At some point, an event will occur in someone’s life that changes the way you look at certain things. Mine happened more recently, but it broke down one of my biggest habits. Hiding my emotions.
It can be hard to get in the habit of new, healthy, methods. I tell myself every Sunday night that I’m going to hit the gym this week and it never happens. I would like to get better at creating new healthy habits, which is a long term goal of mine.
@Jessica C I struggle with the same bad habit as you and I'd be curious to know how you battle that. I like your point that, in time, we will outgrow some of our habits but also that events can happen to trigger us to get rid of those habits.
I would say that I have more bad habits than good. For instance, I try to keep my phone outside my room when doing homework to stay focused, but it somehow finds its way into my room again. I try to eat healthy, but the Doritos and little bites keep finding their way into my lunchbox. And when I try to workout, my buddy Cooper just wants me to go to McDonald’s with him. Its a never ending cycle.
@Dean I couldn't agree with you anymore. I go through the same thing as you do with your habits. I always start by trying to do the right thing, homework instead of Xbox, fruit instead of chips, sleep instead of phone, but I always seem to crumble. I guess I have a bad habit at not keeping up with my good habits. It takes a lot of self-control, but with all the sensations we experience it seems nearly impossible to give them up.
Even though I have many bad habits, it's not a one way street. Some of my healthy habits include going to bed at a reasonable hour and staying on top of my work at school. If I have a good habit I generally will keep with it, I just need to be consistent in the beginning. Consistently is the problem; I can't seem to fix many of my bad habits because I either give up or figure it's not too important.
One of my worst habits has to be procrastinating. I couldn't tell you how many times I have waited until the last moment to get something done, only to have an other hundred assignments to do, all due the next day, usually leading to an all-nighter. This terrible habit has resulted in me carrying an enormous amount of stress, where at some points I simply can't handle it. This habit started when I was younger, and when the consequences weren't nearly as severe, but as I have gotten into high school, I have found it increasingly difficult to handle my stress and pressure. I need to change this habit as soon as possible, for at least the sake of my health.
I feel like I have more good habits than bad because there was a time in my life where I had to reflect and figure out what I was doing that was wrong. That caused me to change my bad habits and to become a better person. One of my best habits is being there for someone when they're upset and telling them things that they want to hear. One of my bad habits is flinching whenever someone moves too quickly in front of me. They don't really affect me that much in or out of school.
I'm good at building new, healthy habits because I know that sometimes I need to change for the better. My new healthier habits cause me to have better relationships with people I hold close to my heart.
I have been able to successfully break many bad habits by not wanting to lose anyone else that I care about in my life. I lost many people that I cared about before because of my bad habits and choices which caused me to develop an abandonment fear.
There is one habit that I would like to build on is to better express my emotions because I'm known to be really quiet and having a hard time expressing what I want. I'm slowly working on this but I would like to be perfect on this habit.
@Steph Cueva There was a good amount of time where I was not able to be my full self. My identity was based on what other people thought of me. My habits as well. Like you, I eventually started to change my habits and attitude. I wanted to become a better person and more like my inner self. Nowadays, I love building new healthy habits. I also try to help my friends with their bad habits as well. With all of us trying to become better, we've built a good community. You're working on expressing your emotions and I've just really started doing that this year. I wish you luck in your endeavors.