Everything is a habit – how we think, how we communicate, how we manage our day and how we manage our lives, our response towards everything, the societal way of approaching things, what we eat and why we eat, each and every tiny element of our life is a habit.
You do a particular thing enough times and it becomes a habit. Soon enough, you don’t even have to think about it, and your habit is in motion (either as a starting point or as a response).
Now, very few people are able to recognize the habits instilled within them. The majority of the people just go on with those habits thinking it’s a part of them.
Those few who recognize these habits, come from a path of self-awareness and thus they recognize it. Fewer then evaluate how those habits serve them, and whether those are good or bad.
Good or bad, mostly depends on individual to individual. Some are surely bad, there’s no question about that. Some of the good ones need to be instilled by the individuals themselves.
Recognizing the habits that are bad is a key skill that the fewest people have and one that works wonders for the life they want to live. It roots from a single thought of who they are and who they want to be, as an individual. How they are towards themselves, how they are towards others, how their habits impact their mental, physical, spiritual, financial, family life and more.
It also roots from a thought of change. Either when you find out yourself or when someone points it out to you, but you understand that something is not serving right and you need to change that.
How can one start? Just evaluating what they do every day, what they think of every day, their regular thought responses towards certain topics, their responses towards people and their habits, it’s the toughest thing to do, but everything starts with a single step.
And even recognizing a single habit, whether good or bad, is a significant first step.
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