Staring at the monitor for a half of a day isn't a good way to spend your waking hours, is it? There's more to sore, dry and tired eyes that it brings - it is the feeling that you haven't done anything worth the while. Unless you are being paid to stare at the computer which is probably impossible, I think there's no personal satisfaction in that. Well, again, that a different story if you enjoy looking at your monitor simply staring blankly at you.
Old habits, same, old habits. Just when you think you're finally over them, they'll just come back creeping silently into your world. Habits could be both good and bad.
Good habits include daily reading of your Bible, daily exercise, saving a certain portion of your income, choosing healthy foods and the likes. Bad habits include, among others, unhealthy midnight snacks, gossips, laziness, impulsive buying, procrastination and many more.
For the purpose of this article, let us talk about the "bad habits."
Bad habits are like some annoying weeds on you yard, no matter how many times you've cut them, they'll just grow even more, suffocating the flowers and eventually killing them. Uproot them! Uproot them, I say! Great if you can do that to your old-bad-habits.
Unless you take old habits out from the roots, they will just keep on coming back. Always worse than before.
But uprooting them doesn't seem to be way too easy, right? So what do you do then? Discipline.
Discipline yourself into fighting bad habits with good ones. You can't just wake up one day and say that all your bad habits are gone. I don't think so. Trust me, I've done that many times before and yet, those old habits just keep coming back. So what do you do then. Commit yourself to the daily grind. Take that painful step of saying "NO" to what were once blissful and easy activities. Admit it, you find it more fun and easy doing your bad habits than the good ones.
Join me in this journey as we wage war against this old-bad-habits of ours. It doesn't matter if your bad habits are the same with my bad habits or not. Let's do this simple and general approach. Customize it to fit your needs.
Ready? Here goes...
I hope that with those steps, I have helped you in your fight with your bad habits. So there, don't let those bad habits take the greatness that awaits you in your life. ADD MORE GOOD HABITS and BE MORE! Habit can only be destroyed by another habit. So make it a habit of Living the Good Life!
To a new and better you!
J. Roy
Author of "The Five Successful Ways to Fail (Things You Weren't Told About Success)"
P.S. One day on my way home from the office, I asked myself, "why do you keep on writing even if your readers don't increase in numbers? What do you get from writing? You haven't even earn anything from it?" Well my answers are these: One, "why should I not write?" And two, I think it is not what I get from it that matters, but rather, what am I able to share through it.
Or maybe... just out of an old habit!
Old habits, same, old habits. Just when you think you're finally over them, they'll just come back creeping silently into your world. Habits could be both good and bad.
Good habits include daily reading of your Bible, daily exercise, saving a certain portion of your income, choosing healthy foods and the likes. Bad habits include, among others, unhealthy midnight snacks, gossips, laziness, impulsive buying, procrastination and many more.
For the purpose of this article, let us talk about the "bad habits."
Bad habits are like some annoying weeds on you yard, no matter how many times you've cut them, they'll just grow even more, suffocating the flowers and eventually killing them. Uproot them! Uproot them, I say! Great if you can do that to your old-bad-habits.
Unless you take old habits out from the roots, they will just keep on coming back. Always worse than before.
But uprooting them doesn't seem to be way too easy, right? So what do you do then? Discipline.
Discipline yourself into fighting bad habits with good ones. You can't just wake up one day and say that all your bad habits are gone. I don't think so. Trust me, I've done that many times before and yet, those old habits just keep coming back. So what do you do then. Commit yourself to the daily grind. Take that painful step of saying "NO" to what were once blissful and easy activities. Admit it, you find it more fun and easy doing your bad habits than the good ones.
Join me in this journey as we wage war against this old-bad-habits of ours. It doesn't matter if your bad habits are the same with my bad habits or not. Let's do this simple and general approach. Customize it to fit your needs.
Ready? Here goes...
- Commit to yourself that you are putting an end to your bad habits - starting NOW! Yes, it should be NOW, as in right NOW. In this instant, as you are reading this post. Why? Because that's commitment. If you don't do this first step NOW, then you aren't really committed. Or maybe, you are just aren't that serious to shake off that habit.
- Write it in a piece of paper and read it when you wake up and before you sleep. Do you remember when you were still a child your parents used to teach you a prayer usually at night, just before you go to bed? Remember that? I don't know how you would explain it but the prayers you say at night seems to stick in to your mind more than the prayers you heard or say during day time. Haven't you noticed that? Or is it just me? Anyway, give it a try and see for yourself. Also, when you prepare for an exam, you review your materials at night, right? With the hope that maybe you'll get the chance to remember more. And most of the time it works, agree? Well, consider your battle against your bad habits as part of your prayer and an exam you have to pass as well. Prepare at night, before you sleep, and remind yourself when you wake up as you went your way into the day.
- Remind yourself that no matter how bad your habits maybe, it isn't you. Your habits are just part of your being but it isn't you. It's just like your favorite dress that you love to wear. You can always change it and you still have yourself.
- Think of all the wonderful things that I could bring if you have totally subdued your bad habits. Also, I don't know what's in it if you imagine the outcome of something. For example, you want to see a movie and you believe that you'll gonna enjoy it. Isn't it true that even before you buy your ticket you already feel the excitement and joy? And the more excited you are, the unstoppable you become. Be excited about the NEW YOU and be unstoppable.
- Commit everything to GOD. You can do all the first four but that will be futile if you are not clinging on the right rope. It is like like being in a boat and rowing to death but towards the opposite the current. USELESS. So before you proceed any further, remember the basic: "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, on your own intelligence rely not; In all your ways be mindful of him, and hi will make straight your path (Proverbs 3:5-6)" Let God show you the way!
I hope that with those steps, I have helped you in your fight with your bad habits. So there, don't let those bad habits take the greatness that awaits you in your life. ADD MORE GOOD HABITS and BE MORE! Habit can only be destroyed by another habit. So make it a habit of Living the Good Life!
To a new and better you!
J. Roy
Author of "The Five Successful Ways to Fail (Things You Weren't Told About Success)"
P.S. One day on my way home from the office, I asked myself, "why do you keep on writing even if your readers don't increase in numbers? What do you get from writing? You haven't even earn anything from it?" Well my answers are these: One, "why should I not write?" And two, I think it is not what I get from it that matters, but rather, what am I able to share through it.
Or maybe... just out of an old habit!
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