BOOK REVIEW: ATOMIC HABITS (CHAPTER TEN : Reframing Your Mindset to Break Bad Habits)

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Reframing Your Mindset to Break Bad Habits

Mindset is everything , to first change or break a habit , we should first of all change how we perceive them. The way we view ourselves and the identity we give ourselves also have a hand in how we are tied to a particular habit.

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If you see yourself as a "night owl" , as most teenagers tend to do , you are likely to justify that even though it affects your sleep.

So in other to tackle a situation like this , you have to redesign your mindset to align with a healthy behavior. You can decide to add affirmative words to it.

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Thinking positively about yourself will actually reduce the way we appeal for bad habits , this in turn creates a motivation to actually adopt the positive ones.

With the help of this shift or change in identity , it becomes more sustainable to break bad habits and adopt new ones which leads you faster towards the person whose identity you are trying to adopt.

to be continued in the next post

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