If that happens, evaluate why you reverted to norm, to help you understand your weaknesses and remind yourself of your trigger point. The path to success isn’t an easy one and slipping up is inevitable. A holiday is the perfect example, where your daily routine completely changes and therefore your trigger points too. Moving away from your normal routine is often the best time to work on breaking a bad habit. The desire must truly be there! Having done that, a plan of action is required, identifying the trigger point. The first step must be acknowledging the bad habit and being committed to change.
#Bad habits meaning how to
There are many suggestions on the Internet, giving advice on how to break a bad habit. The reward comes from the satisfaction of performing the habit, whether it be a good or bad one. The smoking of the cigarette then becomes the routine behaviour without really making the decision to do it. It’s a behaviour that neuroscientists have identified as being made in the basal ganglia part of the brain. This can be something such as always reaching for a cigarette when you wake up or making a cup of coffee. The cue/trigger tells our brain to go into automatic mode. The loop consists of a cue or trigger, routine and then reward. In his book, The Power of Habit, author Charles Duhigg explains that every habit starts with a psychological pattern called a “habit loop”. Common examples include procrastination, fidgeting, overspending, stereotyping, gossips, bullying, and nail-biting.’ Many bad habits are harmless enough whilst others can have a deeper impact, potentially leading to addiction. Wikipedia describes a bad habit as: ‘a negative behaviour pattern. This article explores what makes a bad habit form and how we can overcome them. In my last blog I wrote about addiction versus habit.
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