Replace your bad habits

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”

Remember habits play key role in changing your life...

Here is the step by step guide to replace your bad habits

1) Do less. Just focus on fixing one thing at a time.
    Charles Duhigg, the author of  'POWER OF HABIT' said that’s the key to lasting change.

• If you try to transform everything at once, it tends to be very, very destabilizing. In general, what people should do, is they should think of change as a project. It’s a project that takes a while… Now, it might feel frustrating to say, “If you have ten habits you want to change, that means it’s going to take eight months or nine months.” The truth of the matter is if this is a behavior that’s really important, changing it will have this huge impact on your life. It’s worth spending a month to change one behavior permanently. You’re going to be reaping the benefits of that for the next decade.

2) Don’t Stop. Just Count.

• Whatever it is you shouldn’t be doing, you don’t have to stop it. (Doesn’t that sound nice?) Don’t try to reduce the habit, reduce the variability in the habit. This tiny effort toward self-control can lead to a decrease in bad habits over time, unconsciously.

3) Don’t Change Yourself. Change Your World or Surrounding.

• Every day I download Instagram on my iPhone and every day I delete Instagram off my iPhone. Does it sound like I have a problem? Nope. It’s a great way to make sure I only check it once a day.
• You can also download any phone time tracker to keep a watch on yourself. Your Hour- Phone Addiction Tracker & Controller is one of the free app that helps to you to keep an eye on your daily phone usage and gives you different challenges to bring you back to your normal life.

4) Chill, Dude.

• A lot of  disciplined and successful personalities always says, “Stress takes the prefrontal cortex offline.” Stress changes the dynamics of that conversation. It weakens the prefrontal cortex. That part of your brain doesn’t have infinite resources. It can’t be eternally vigilant and so while it’s not paying attention, your striatum is like, “Let’s go eat a cookie. Let’s go drink a beer.” Anything that you can do to reduce stress can help strengthen the prefrontal cortex’s control over your habits.

5) Don’t Eliminate Bad Habits. Replace Them.

• We know that a habit cannot be eradicated— it must, instead, be replaced. And we know that habits are most malleable when the Golden Rule of habit change is applied: If we keep the same cue and the same reward, a new routine can be inserted.

6) “If” and “Then”

• It’s called if-then planning, and it is a really powerful way to help you achieve any goal. Well over a hundred studies, on everything from diet and exercise to negotiation and time management, have shown that deciding in advance when and where you will take specific actions to reach your goal (e.g., “If it is 4 p.m., then I will return any phone calls I should return today”) can double or triple your chances for success.

7) Forgive Yourself.

• Expect to revert to your old habits from time to time. Treat any failure as a temporary set-back rather than a reason to give up altogether

<<Summary>>

Here’s how to get rid of those awful bad habits:

-One at a time. Beat one bad habit per month and in a year you’ll be awesome.
-Don’t stop. Just count. Don’t eliminate the bad behavior. First, be consistent in your awfulness.
-Don’t change yourself. Change your world. 20 second rule. Make it harder to engage in bad habits.
-Chill, dude. Stress makes the bad stuff tempting. Relax and you’ll behave better.
-Don’t eliminate. Replace. You can’t kill bad habits but you can swap them out for new ones.
-“If” and “Then.” A simple plan for how you’ll beat temptation helps you beat temptation.
-Forgive yourself. Beating yourself up makes you behave worse. Self-compassion keeps you going.




I have taken this information from various resources, programmes, blogs, books, personal experience and of others also. Hope this content will be helpful to you. Do comment below if you find it helpful.