Good Habits to incorporate and Bad Habits to break for a healthy lifestyle

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Good Habits to incorporate and Bad Habits to break

Bad habits to say good-bye

Can you make new habits?

Mistakes to avoid while changing habits

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• Good Habits to incorporate and Bad Habits to break

Hey guys! If you want to have a healthy lifestyle, you need to change your set of habits. Because your habits shape your life and have a great impact on your physical and mental health.

Human beings are gifted with great control and power, so that they can do whatever they want in life. So, to live a healthy lifestyle you need to add good habits and exclude bad habits which are ruining your life.

• Bad habits to say good-bye

Sometimes life seems to be out of control and you find your happiness out of reach. You are trying to figure out what is the reason, but once again you fail. You know that your daily routine has no spark or joy for you, but the problem is you don’t know how to fill the spark and joy in your dull life.

There are a few bad habits that could be making your life difficult and out of happiness. You need to stem out them to regain control of your life. Here is the list of those bad habits,

1. Are you constantly comparing your life, its circumstances, your success, your failures, and your achievements with others? If you are doing this then you have to get rid of this bad habit as soon as possible. Because this bad habit will never let you live in the moment and enjoy your hard-earned success.

2. If you are used to overthinking every situation that you are facing in daily life, then my dear you can never be happy and satisfied. Because this bad habit of overthinking is stealing your peace.
3. Many people around us are used to skipping meals, either to lose weight or to cope with a shortage of time. But they never thought that this bad habit is not only affecting their health in the worst possible way, but it is also affecting their mood and happiness.
4. If you have a habit of thinking that your care is not so important and you can spend your time doing some other thing. Then you have to get rid of this bad habit because nothing is more important than you. If you are not healthy or happy, then how can you make others happy and achieve something in life?
5. If you have a habit of strictly following your routine and never dare to deviate from your routine. Then you may end up being demotivated and low-spirited. To enjoy life to the fullest, you need to deviate from your routine from time to time and do something that makes you happy.
6. Don’t hold onto a grudge for others who have wronged you in life. Because it will fill you with negative thoughts and increase stress levels. So, forgive those people who wronged you and move on in life to focus on your happiness.

• Can you make new habits?

Yes, you can make or add new habits at any point in your life. A behavior or action becomes a habit when it becomes automatic and comes out of control of your intentional efforts. You can add new habits in a planned or unplanned way.

For example, during your childhood, you were used to ask by your parents to brush your teeth before going to bed and as you grew up, brushing your teeth before bedtime, became a habit and you no longer need any reminder to do it.

So, to add a new habit in your life you need to follow a few steps and once you do it, after some time your desired habit becomes part of your life.

Here are the steps to add a new habit,

1. To incorporate a specific habit in your life, you need to understand what benefit it is going to give you or how it is going to impact your life. So, when your brain analyzes this, it takes the first step toward adding a new habit.

2. The second step is, you start reminding yourself to do a specific task daily. You need to make it a part of your routine. Once you made it part of your routine, soon it would become part of your subconscious. For example, you want to replace your evening glass of wine with a cup of coffee. So, every evening you have to remind yourself to drink coffee. 
3. The third step is you need to stay away from factors that are not allowing you to add a new habit and quit an old one. For example, you were drinking wine every evening to deal with work-related stress. So, you need to avoid stress or deal with stress most effectively to get rid of the bad habit of drinking excessive wine and replace it with the habit of drinking coffee.
4. The last step is you need to keep forcing yourself to practice something that you intend to make a habit until it becomes your habit and enters autopilot mode.

• Mistakes to avoid while changing habits

You found out that your few habits are hindering you from achieving a healthy lifestyle. So, you thought and started working on abandoning those habits and switching them with a few new ones that might help you in redesigning your life. In this journey of getting used to new habits, avoid following given mistakes to not end up being failed.

1. If you want to abandon an old habit, then you need to control your environment which might won’t let you become successful. For example, you are used to smoking cigarettes during times of stress. So, if you want to quit smoking, you need to address your stress firsthand and try to hang out with friends to deviate your mind.

2. Instead of changing too many bad habits at a single time, try to change them one by one. Because it will make you overwhelmed and anxious. So, start focusing on bad habits and when it is removed from your life, go for another one.
3. You have to give yourself some time to become used to new healthy habits. Otherwise, you may end up a total failure. Because a habit becomes solid when it is repeated for a long time and becomes part of our subconscious mind.
4. Never think that a small change in your life doesn’t matter. A small bad habit can ruin your health and mental peace and in the same way, a small good habit can have a great positive impact on your life. So, keep on making small changes in your life to remain on the right track.
5. Sometimes the outcome of changing a bad habit with a good one is not so big. But it doesn’t mean that this change has no impact on your life. For example, you were used to spending hours in bed or couch and as a result, you put on weight. Then you decided to change this bad habit with a healthy habit of doing workouts regularly. So, after adopting a new habit don’t focus on how much weight you have lost. Because you might have lost only a few pounds, but by adopting the habit of staying active you have changed your lifestyle to a healthy one.

Building good habits is one of the main pillars of gaining a healthy lifestyle… If you are ready to incorporate a few good habits in your life, get up and kick out your old, but bad habits and lay the foundation of a healthy lifestyle.