3. Confront discomfort.
Whether you want to modify your lifestyle for weight reduction, better nutrition, increased physical fitness, or another reason, getting ready to feel uncomfortable is one of the greatest methods to break undesirable habits.
Humans fight against discomfort. We wait for a feeling or the drive to act. In actuality, what prevents us from going where we need to is an inability to accept that something will be uncomfortable.
4. Visualize success.
Imagine situations where you behave in desired ways rather than the poor habit to repeatedly practice breaking the habit in your head. Consider scenarios in which you could feel inclined to act in an undesirable manner and pick a better course of action. This supports healthy behavioral patterns.
For instance, if your objective is to eat less junk food, picture yourself cooking a healthy meal and sitting down to enjoy it.
Writing down “scripts” of their preferred conduct and reading them daily can be useful for some people.
5. Eliminate the triggers.
Avoid going to the pub if you smoke while drinking. Throw away all the cookies if you consume them while they are present in the house. The TV remote should be kept in a closet in a different room if the first thing you do when you sit on the couch is pick it up. By avoiding the triggers, you can make it easier for yourself to break undesirable habits.
Your surroundings currently makes it easier to engage in harmful habits than positive ones.
You can affect the outcome by altering your surroundings.
6. Create a new habit instead.
If you try to replace the undesirable activity with a new behavior rather than just trying to cease the undesirable behavior, you could find it easier to break the habit.
Let’s say you want to stop eating candy at work when you’re hungry. If all you do is try to stay away from the candy bowl, you can relapse if you can’t control your appetite. However, you have another snack choice if you bring in a Tupperware of dry fruit and nuts to keep at your desk.
The desire to continue the new pattern emerges as you practice the new behavior. The impulse to continue engaging in this activity may eventually exceed the desire to continue engaging in the old habit if you start to reap the benefits of the new habit, such as more energy and less of a sugar crash.
