Hey, this is Leo, for actualized.org, and in this video, we're going to talk about bad habits.

Specifically, how do you drop a bad habit? All right, let's talk bad habits.

What are they, why do they happen, and really in this

video what I want to do is I want to take you through a process that will help you to

begin to drop your bad habit for good.

So bad habits, what do we have to say about this?

Well, I think that we've got to start by taking a look at some of the examples of what bad habits are and what they're doing in your life.

Personally, for me, I really struggled with a couple of habits.

I have to go back and really dig into my past to unearth some of these

because I've already forgotten that I've dropped them,

and they were such negative habits for me.

My biggest negative habits were overeating and watching television and playing video games.

So these three habits just took root when I was growing up and I was very overweight my whole life.

And I watched enormous quantities of television, wasted so much of my time doing that, and also spent a lot of hours playing video games and wasted a lot of my life doing that.

So those three things were really something I had to overcome in order to start to move

towards a self actualized kind of life that I am really living in right now and

that I'm shooting for even higher levels of it as I'm going forward in the next few years and onwards.

So with you, your negative habits might be the same or they might be different,

but in the end it doesn't really matter what the bad habit is, it's all

you relying on something to give you emotional support, emotional stimulation, a crutch if you

will. So this might be hardcore drugs, this might be pot, this might be food, this

might be alcohol, this might be partying, this might be the internet or television or

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