Habit-change

The nature of man is always the same ;its their habits that separates them- Confucius

To day I wish to write about habit..and I know it’s one of the most heaviest word in the dictionary..because

“Good habit s,once established are just as hard to break as bad habits”-Robert Puller

Why this is unbreakable both ways?how it gets so powerful?

Because when we form a habit ,good or bad,it sinks down into different layers of mental,physical and vital parts .By this way it becomes a second nature ,just like an instinct.Every man has to go trough this habit-channels, when ever they are trying to establish a habit.

Good habits are always good ,but bad habits are as diverse as people’s personalities.Alan Strathman, Phd of University of Missouri and his colleagues discovered that we have different degrees of “future Orientation”,Which means preference for delayed consequence, since most of the decision-making process that sustains bad habit focuses on  the present rather than future ,people with a poor future orientation struggle more with bad habits.

We all want to change our bad habits.

5 most important steps are

Precontemplation (the person sees no need to change)

Contemplation ( the person recognizes the problem)

Preparation( the person plans for change but tomorrow)

Action

Maintenance (the person continues the new ,positive behavior for more than 6 months)

But most importantly we need to change our attitude,in order to be successful in habit-changing mission.if you ever backslide don’t label yourself a failure.Some would say “oh I am lazy”.wrong!!actually people don’t understand how to go about it properly.its not will power that is needed to change our habit,but understanding.

taken from the book of S.R.Khan