Identify your trigger environments
To break a bad habit, figure out where you tend to be when you do that bad habit. Your environment is taking over for your brain and, until you figure out where these things happen, you’ll be relatively helpless to change them.
When you identify where you’re most likely to do the things you wish you wouldn’t, you’ll improve your odds of actually stopping.
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