Four (4) Tips To Breaking bad habits and developing good and vitalized life

1.Count the cost and benefits: every habit, good or bad has its cost and benefits. Even for a bad habit, there was some sort of satisfaction you derived from it that is why you kept on doing it anyway. In the same way, it also has its price attached to it. Take the habit of smoking for example, one of its benefits is that it brings warmth to you but it has some cost attached to it like you may be avoided by non-smokers because of the offensive odour or worse case, you stand the risk of damaged lungs in the near future. We can also take a look at premarital and extramarital affairs, you stand the risk of unwanted pregnancies which may lead to abortion and the rest, or sexually transmitted diseases which may steal your physical and mental health or your finances, etc. The point here is to weigh the benefits against the cost. In the end, is it really worth it?

2• Believe you can change: just the same way you developed that habit on your own, you have the power to break it on your own. You were not born with any habit, so you don’t have to take any bad one to your grave.

3• Identify what triggers that habit: it could be when you are in a certain place or with a certain kind of people or when you see or hear a particular thing or when you are in a particular frame of mind; always do all you can to avoid those situations. Even if it means staying away from some of your friends or turning off your television or your phone, just do it.

4• Develop a new good habit as a replacement: Nature doesn’t tolerate vacuum. Find a better habit to replace the bad habit you want to break; if possible, a good habit that gives you the same reward that bad habit was giving you. Its easier to form the habit of eating healthy rather than going on a diet. Never replace a bad habit with another bad one! If you don’t replace that bad habit immediately, in only a matter of time, your body would begin to feel deprived of a particular satisfaction. I for instance developed the habit of writing because I discovered i was beginning to talk too much even to the point of saying things I didn’t plan to say. People who know me very well know I never had any interest in writing a couple of years ago. The truth is now, I derive the same satisfaction writing as I get from just talking endlessly; and now it is better because I have to put a lot of thoughts in what I write. The point is “if you concentrate on developing good habits, there won’t be any room left for the bad habit”. Your body would always adjust to what you expose and let it get used to. You may never know what you are capable of until you try.

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