Habits,

Hello World!

We all have habits. And it is always the bad ones we concentrate on. That is generally because those are the habits we are forever trying to get rid off or alternate. I for one have been concentrating on the bad habits and have been beating myself up over it. I'm not going to go into detail about the recent habits I have picked up about myself, because I want to concentrate on the positives.

Last week was possibly the worst week for me, everything that has been building up had finally caught up with me and made me in the most foulest of moods. Particularly my habits. Over the course of year, new habits had grown and became quite controlling of me and I particularly hated myself for becoming addicted to the habits. 
The worst of the habit was procrastinating; whenever I needed to do something, or I had free time to do a something productive like a hobby. I would procrastinate with something else.
I found this way of living so unhealthy and it made me feel like I had no control of my life. Recently I found myself procrastinating from actually reading a book!
I LOVE reading and when I found had time to myself and I thought, "I have time read." You would actually find me doing something completely different. I was procrastinating from doing something I would enjoy!? WTF, Right?

This week, I have decided reclaim some more control in my life. I wish I could tell you some things about how to kick the habit, but I am still learning all about it myself. 
I have read somewhere that it can take up to six weeks to break a habit you are trying to break. 
So if you are like me, who is desperate to break a habit. Persevere! Be consistent with yourself, but most importantly don't beat yourself up when  you have a set back.
I've found that the worst time for me on habits is when I create a too big of a list for myself. So I have decided to shorten the list and set myself doable goals. Such as; going to the gym after work, read only so amount of pages, blog about something extremely passionate and do your research!

Mentality; You need to remember that you are worth something. A lot of the habits I hated, came by was when I felt worthless or nothing. It's hard and you can't be happy all time! Sometimes telling yourself to smile or that you are worthy of a life can be extremely hard. So when I found myself in that mode, I want to try something new, I want to start meditating or sitting down and doing some colouring when I feel my mind is racing with self hatred. Something to numb the mind and reboot itself really. You can't control yourself, when you don't have the mind for it.

Feel free to leave any advice about how you broke a bad habit. I would love to hear about them.


Claire.