Since this corona-virus lockdown, all our work has been stopped.

This lockdown has affected our daily life negatively. Everyone is at home, thinking about their life and how they can live a happy life which is full of joy and wealth.

But we can use this time wisely and make a change in our life.

 In this article, we are going to discuss:-

• What is mean by habits?
• Why do you need to check up your habits?
• Why you should remove all the bad habits and promote the good ones?
• How to do it?

What are habits?

Habits are basically the most underrated and micro things that affect everyone and still, people don't pay attention to it. Habits are the daily routines that we have developed by practising over a large period of time on a daily basis.

When we practise something daily, our brain creates a pattern inside itself so that it does not need to spend its energy doing that daily task.

Example: Have you ever wondered when you go from home to workplace and vice versa, you do not even realise or need not to think in which direction you have to take a turn in order to reach there.

You didn't even realise when you reach the home thinking about abstract things in mind all along the way.

It happens because you have created a habit to do it regularly.

Need to check up your habits

Since we do so many things on a daily basis and accordingly we have developed so many habits that we even not realise sometimes whether this habit will add value to my life or not.

Unfortunately, our mind couldn't differentiate between good habits and bad habits, it will create those things as a habit that we like, the things which release the higher level of dopamine hormone(the happy hormone), but that doesn't always mean only good habits create happiness.

As a human, we all have a desire to get success, to achieve what others are incapable of, to get all the comfortabilities at our home and our life should go smooth and happy. But to achieve these things we have to check up our habits whether it is aligned with the success that we are desiring for?

As it is an old saying:

 Only habits decide the success or failure

Changing bad habits into a good one

Now you know why you need to look onto your habits, now I am going to tell you the simple ways in which you can change your bad habits into a good one.

According to the book 'The Power of Habits'

The author says simply one cannot kill his bad habit at once. If he does so and avoids doing that thing he will never get good with it. That bad habit will return as the will-power of the person weakens by the passing days. 

So the simple ways to do so is changing a bad habit from a new one.

But how will we able to do this?

The author says to change a particular habit we need to execute 3 steps.

Step-1

Find the cue(the source) which triggers the desire for the bad habit.

Sources can be of any type:

• It can be a particular place 
• It can be a particular friend
• It can be a particular time
• It can be a particular work

You need to figure it out. Once you have figured it out now you can go to step 2

Step-2

Transform that desire and manifest it into the work which gives you comfort to your life.

Example- 

  While scrolling on social media you can actually find out how you can earn through social media instead.

It will not only support you financially but also you will not face a pang of guilt feeling that we particularly have when we waste out our time which deep down we all know will never come back.

Step-3

Never think you have a bad habit and you are fighting with it. The more you think of it, the more are the chances it will trigger.

After practising this for 21 days, you will be able to have control over that habit whether you want to continue it or not.

Initially, there is a pattern which gets created in our subconscious mind about our habits and it changes for every 21 days. So anything that you continuously do for 21 days becomes your habit.

Thank you for reading this article. Make sure you share this article to those who are facing many problems in their life due to bad habits.