Breaking Bad Habits – Establish New Priorities – Part I
Is it possible to free yourself from bad habits? Can people really change in any meaningful and lost-lasting way? Can I change myself? The answer to each of these questions is “yes.” But you can’t change in 24 hours, as some programs and self-help books promise. My research, as well as my experience and common sense, tell me that anyone can change, but at the same time, I know that people need a compelling reason to change.
For me, personally this situation came up on July 20th, 1979 – as an alcoholic, who I am, I had to make my decision, whether to stop my bad habit – drinking masses of alcohol each day – or just going on and going to die sooner or later. The story of my life was and sometimes is even today, a story of bad habits and bad decisions. I’m sure it’s a story filled with bad people and bad situations, too. But at some point we have to discard the factors, the people, and the situations that shaped us. Focusing on the past won’t help us solve today. At some point we have to take responsibility for our own lives.
I suspect that bad habits and bad choices are what brought me to this point-day after day and year after year-until I hit rock bottom. That’s always the way it is and was until July 20th.1979.
Learning how to free myself from bad habits starts with the realization that we cause our own feelings. I am the major cause of my own problems. The moment I grasp that simple fact, I’m ready to step into the process of self-change that will lead to freedom from the habits that keep me from living a more satisfying life. And when I’m free from my bad habits, the people around me will be free from the person I used to be.
About the Author:
Tags: self help books, bad habit, life offline, internet marketer, bad decisions For me, personally this situation came up on July 20th, 1979 – as an alcoholic, who I am, I had to make my decision, whether to stop my bad habit – drinking masses of alcohol each day – or just going on and going to die sooner or later. The story of my life was and sometimes is even today, a story of bad habits and bad decisions. I’m sure it’s a story filled with bad people and bad situations, too. But at some point we have to discard the factors, the people, and the situations that shaped us. Focusing on the past won’t help us solve today. At some point we have to take responsibility for our own lives.
I suspect that bad habits and bad choices are what brought me to this point-day after day and year after year-until I hit rock bottom. That’s always the way it is and was until July 20th.1979.
Learning how to free myself from bad habits starts with the realization that we cause our own feelings. I am the major cause of my own problems. The moment I grasp that simple fact, I’m ready to step into the process of self-change that will lead to freedom from the habits that keep me from living a more satisfying life. And when I’m free from my bad habits, the people around me will be free from the person I used to be.
About the Author:
Reinhard Schumacher,Internet marketer,on his way to entrepreneur,Learning-teaching student and Paedagogic teacher in his first life offline,59 of years,living in Germany, online since 1996,aquiring business level in 2009. More details at: http://www.reinhardschumacher.com
