Improvement Series: Week 2 - Breaking Bad Habits

 "Chains Of Habits Are Too Light To Be Felt Until They Are Too Heavy To Be Broken"

-Warren Buffet

Welcome to the October edition of the Straight Up Mindset Blog. This months series is the Improvement Series.  Last weeks topic was over Self-Awareness. This week we will be talking about Breaking Bad Habits


This topic is something that we all have difficulties with. Even the best out there still deal with certain habits that are tough to break. They also understand these habits need to be broken if they are hindering you from reaching your goals. Everyone's habits are different, some are very negative when it comes to resolving issues. Others like to avoid issues and challenges all together. Myself for example, I have a bad habit of procrastinating and then scramble to get things done in the llth hr. Now I am not proud of that, but it is something that I am constantly working on everyday. This bad habit of mine has prevented me from taking advantage of a lot of great opportunities. Instead of doing what`s needed to be done, I was not prepared when an opportunity presented itself.

Understand that breaking bad habits is not an easy task. As mentioned in our previous blog, you have to be aware of these bad habits. Self-Awareness is key to finding these bad habits and starting the process in changing them. You have to be honest with yourself. Many times we don't want to admit we have an issue in the first place. The first and biggest step is to realize and admit what ever bad habits you have is a big problem. Once you've done that you are already half way there. The next step is to come up with a plan on how you are going to break this habit. For instance, one of the things I made sure to do to break my habit of procrastinating was to be conscious when that feeling came up. Once I recognized that feeling, I acknowledge it, had a very positive and motivational internal conversation with myself. Then I proceeded to doing and accomplishing my task at hand. 

Another key component to breaking and building better habits is consistency. Its not something that is just going to work after one try. Think about it, you developed these habits over time and repetitive execution. It becomes apart of your daily life and routine. It is now second nature to you, which is why you don't even realize you are doing it. In order to break that cycle and develop a new routine you have to do it consistently. This is why when we present the 30 Day Challenge to you guys we give you 30 days to apply the principles we provide in the blogs. You've heard us say it, “It takes 21 days to build a habit”, we give you 30.

Listen, its going to be an uphill battle, you are going to have successes and failures in this process. Just remember to keep pressing forward, be consistent and eventually you will break those bad habits and probably won’t even realize it because it will then have become second nature to you.

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