Bad Habits That Hold You Back in Life

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🗓️ 19 June 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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"Bad Habits That Hold You Back in Life" - Listen to my Morning Monologue: I’m sharing my take on pressing issues, enlightening research on human behavior, answering questions I get by email, and my favorite, most instructive interactions with callers. Everything you’ll hear is designed to help you become a better spouse, parent, family member, co-worker, friend, and human being. It’s the free therapy you need! • Got a dilemma? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com - Listen to The Dr. Laura Program daily on SiriusXM Triumph 123.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to my morning monologue.
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0:18.5	Remember, you can hear my radio program daily on Sirius XM Triumph and connect with me 24-7 at
0:26.6	Dr.ora.com.
0:27.8	My opening remarks are going to be on some bad habits that so many of my callers demonstrate and they hold you back in life and you can't be
0:44.3	happy and I'd like you to be realistically happy. What do I mean by realistically happy? I mean, you're not doing something stupid and getting immediate
0:56.3	gratification or stoned all the time, you know, just realistically happy, content. A lot of you
1:05.8	worry. Worry, worry, worry, worry, worry, worry.
1:15.6	Worry is because you're wishing for something to go one way, but it's going the other way. I don't know. Maybe it'll go the other way.
1:17.6	Worry has no power except to destroy you.
1:23.6	But it has no forward-moving power.
1:32.0	Worry does not make anything positive happen or develop.
1:34.7	Worry just destroys you and eliminates the possibility of you being happy, content right now.
1:42.4	Worry doesn't protect anybody. It doesn't change other people's actions and
1:51.3	thoughts. It's just as self-destructive. So what is the fix for worry?
2:01.8	The fix for worry is do something.
2:07.0	Do something about it or do something about something.
2:13.8	A lot of times, especially some years ago, a lot of women were calling in worried about their
2:21.9	kids in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq.
2:27.2	I'm a mother.
2:28.3	My kid was there.
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