What if I told you that breaking bad habits was actually a lot easier than you might think?

Well, that's are constantly doing it.

We are building habits whether we are trying to or not.

And oftentimes those habits aren't necessarily the best.

So we might be building a habit around what time we wake up each morning and that time might be later

than we want it to be or for many of us we're building a habit around hitting snooze

in the mornings or we're building a habit around the specific foods that we eat at specific times of the day.

For example, if you are regularly crashing around 2, 3 p.m.

you've got that post-lunch slump, and you reach for candy or coffee or whatever it is

that's becoming a habit. We are building habits constantly and we don't typically

really know it we don't recognize it as it's happening and

this is extremely true when it comes to building bad habits or negative habits, undesirable habits, things that we ourselves don't necessarily want to maintain or keep doing, we are regularly building.

Now there's a few things we need to think about when it comes to building

negative undesirable habits and that is that oftentimes they are harder to

break than good habits. It's much, much harder to get ourselves to not do something bad for us than it is to get ourselves to do something good for us.

And a big reason why this happens is simply because when we do a negative habit, typically the reward for that is instantaneous.

So think about the candy bar. It's 2 p.m. you are exhausted, you're falling asleep, you reach for a snickers or whatever your brand of candy is.

In my case, it would be some kind of gummies.

So you reach for your sour trolley gummy worms,

and what ends up happening is you take a bite,

you've got the sugar instantly,

you feel awake, you're alert, you feel better immediately.

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