Habits are what can help us in shaping our future. Good habits can build us however bad ones can destroy us. Here are some strategies to leave bad ones.

Strategies for Eliminating bad Habits

A teacher and his young pupil were wandering in a forest. The teacher asked his pupil to pull up the sapling which was just sprouting from the ground. The pupil pulled it easily. The teacher again asked the pupil to pull up the sapling which was knee-high to the boy. With a little effort, the pupil pulled that too. Ultimately, the teacher asked to pull up a mighty oak which was so tall that the boy could not see the top. The pupil seeing this told that it is impossible."My boy, you just demonstrated the power that habits will have over your life!" the teacher exclaimed. The older they are,...

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the bigger they get, the deeper the roots grow and the harder they are to uproot. Some get so big with roots, so deep, you might hesitate to even try."

Aristotle said, "We are what we do repeatedly."There was a man riding a horse. It seemed he was in a great hurry. A man standing alongside the roadside yelled, "where are you going?" The rider replied, "I don't know. Ask the horse."This is the story of most people. We don't know what we are doing. We perform in auto-pilot mode based on our habits, not knowing what we are doing. Thus, it is high time to be in control.

Creatures of Habit

Successful people aren't necessarily intelligent or more talented. It is their habit that moves them towards becoming more informed, more knowledgeable, better skilled and well-prepared.

Habits define us

According to psychologists, 95% of everything we feel, think and do is a result of learned habits. We are born with instincts but not with habits. Habits are learned during the course of time. Since habits are learned they can be unlearned too.Here are some strategies to unlearn bad habits<ol><li>Identify Your Triggers</li><li>Clean House</li><li>Swap It</li></ol>

Game changers

Look at your list of bad habits and identify what triggers them. Figure out who, what, where and when for each bad habit.<ul><li>Do you smoke or drink a lot when you are with certain people?</li><li>Is there a particular time when you crave something like alcohol, nicotine, sweets and so on?</li><li>What situations force you to your bad habits?</li></ul>Take a closer look and note all these triggers.

Identify Your Triggers

Seriously, clean your house. If you want to stop drinking alcohol, remove every drop of it from your house. If you want to stop watching TV, cancel all your cable and Netflix subscriptions.Get rid of all those that enable your bad habits.

Clean House

Can you replace your bad habits with good ones? Think once.The author's sister-in-law had a habit of consuming crunchy and salty junk food while watching TV. She would consume a whole bag of chips while watching. When she got aware of this, she pondered and found out she enjoyed the crunchy sensation in her mouth. She then decided to replace a bag of chips with crunching carrots.

Swap It

At a certain point in time, we develop bad habits, which are harmful to us and we need to remove those bad habits. These ideas tell us how to unlearn and remove bad habits.

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Cue, Craving, Response, Reward- Readers with psychology background may recognize these terms from:<ul><li>"Stimulus, Response, Reward" - B.F Skinner 1930s</li><li>"Cue, Routine, Reward" - Charles Duhigg</li></ul>

Four-Step Model Of Habits

<ul><li>Success is the product of daily habits- not once-in-a-lifetime transformation</li><li>Success is not a goal to reach or to the finish line to cross. It is a system to improve an endless process to refine.</li></ul>

Success

Time magnifies the margin between success and failure. It will multiply whatever you feed it

Time

That's how knowledge works, it builds up compound interest

Warren BUFFETT

Riots, protests, and movements are rarely the results of a single event. Instead, a long series of microaggressions and daily aggravations, slowly multiply until one events tips the scale, and outrage spreads like wold fire.

Outrage Compound

<ul><li>the most powerful outcomes are delayed</li><li>all big things come from small beginnings</li><li>the seed of every habit is a single tiny decision</li></ul>

Things I want to Remember

<ul><li>GOALS are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about the processes that lead to those results.</li><li>Fix the inputs and the outputs will fix themselves</li></ul>FORGET ABOUT THE GOALS, FOCUS ON THE SYSTEMS INSTEADcommit to the PROCESS, determine your SUCCESS.

GOALS VS. SYSTEMS

It makes no sense to restrict your satisfaction to one scenario when there is so many paths to success

The Path to Success

Changing our habits is challenging for two reasons;<ol><li>we try to change the wrong thing;</li><li>we try to change our habits the wrong way.</li></ol>

CHANGING HABITS

<ul><li>You have a new goal and a new plan, but you haven't changed who you are.</li><li>IMPROVEMENTS are only temporary until they become part of who you are.</li><li>The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.</li></ul>

Who YOU are...

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate

<ul><li>Environment is the invisible hand that shapes human behavior.</li><li>Bad Habits are autocatalytic; the process feeds itself.</li></ul>

Notes: Part 1

A genius is not BORN, but is EDUCATED and TRAINED

<ul><li>Desire is the difference between where you are now and where you want to be in the future.</li><li>It is the emotion that allows you to mark things as good, bad, or, indifferent.</li></ul>

Desire and Emotion

walk slowly, but never backwords

The BEST is the enemy of the GOOD.

refers to the strengthening of connections between neurons in the brain based on patterns of activity.

LONG-TERM POTENTTIATION

is the ability to perform a behavior without thinking about each step which occurs when the nonconscious mind takes over.

AUTOMACITY

Redesign your life so the actions that matter most also the actions that are easiest to do.

When you start a new habit it should take less than two minutes.A task that can be finished in under two minutes should be done first

2 MINUTE RULE

<ul><li>Sometimes success is less about making good habits easy and more about making bad habits hard.</li><li>Technology creates a level of convenience that enables you to act on the smallest whims and desires.</li><li>The world has changed so much in recent years, but human nature has changed a little.</li></ul>

NOTES: Part 2

The last mile is always the least crowded.

<ul><li>Never break the chain.</li><li>Never miss twice -  This is talking about missing to do a habit.</li><li>The first mistake is never the one that ruins you.</li></ul>

REMINDER:

PAIN is an effective teacher.

<ul><li>Genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.</li><li>If you can't win by being better, win by being different.</li><li>Our genes do not eliminate the need for hard work. They clarify it. They tell us what to work hard on.</li><li>It's more productive to focus on wether you are fulfilling your own potential than comparing yourself to someone else.</li></ul>

GENES

Genes can predispose, but they can never predetermine.

The Goldilocks Rule is that humans experience peak motivation when working on tasks that are right at the edge of their current ability. Not too hard. Not too easy. Just right.

GOLDILOCKS RULE

<ul><li>And boredom is perhaps the greatest villain on the quest for self-improvement.</li><li>The greatest threat to success is not failure but boredom.</li><li>You have to fall in love with boredom.</li></ul>

BOREDOM

Men desire novelty to such an extent that those who are doing well wish for a change as much as those who are doing badly.

Sustaining an effort is the most important for ant any enterprise. The way to be successful is to learn how to do things right, the do them the same way every time.

<ul><li>The tighter we cling to an identity, the harder it becomes to grow beyond it.</li><li>The lack of self-awareness is poison.</li><li>Happiness is not about the achievement of pleasure, but about the lack of desire.</li><li>Being poor is not having too little, it is wanting more.</li></ul>

Notes: Part 3

"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope"

These are all the things that I learned and things that resonated with me. I hope that the book helped you as much as it helped me. Enjoy reading <3

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