The secret to breaking bad.... habits

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We run on autopilot for most of the tasks we do during the day.

A habit is shaped based on how we internalize external stimuli.

If we encounter the same stimuli frequently we tend to handle it similarly for each encounter.

Eventually, our brain simply recognizes a trigger—and sends a simple message to our body to express something.

A reaction.

You can compare it to how text messages work on your phone.

After you respond the same way to an incoming text the phone is able to auto fill and guess how you are most likely going to respond.

Scary….but true.

Just like your phone, habits are learned over time.

Once learned and set, they require hardly any of our higher brain functions to maintain them.

They are the reflexes of the brain.

It takes thinking to change habits.

Self-awareness thinking.

If you know that you need to break a bad habit for your own good.

You have to turn off the autopilot.

While autopilot is off, you have to replace the bad habit with one that is better for you.

With enough time, the new action will become a new habit.

The secret is there is no secret to doing this, or most things for that matter.

Things change when you have the will to do it, understand how, and have a good plan.

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