How I am teaching myself to prevent bad habits
One lesson that I have learned these past couple of weeks that has had a life-changing effect is... Finding the root cause of a problem. For bad emotions, I use emotional mapping. And for bad habits, I've started finding the trigger --the one thing that starts the chain reaction. One example would be starting my day late --for example, starting at 11 am instead of 6am. If I were to trace it up to the initial trigger, I would notice that it often starts with watching a movie when I am supposed to be in bed... And then after watching movies, I continue going against my schedule by staying up in bed and going through social media. This results in me sleeping late. And it makes it difficult to wake up early. And when I try to force myself to be up early, I feel groggy and the speed at which I go about my morning routine slows down. Activities like brushing my teeth, visualization/meditation, and exercising take way longer than they should. Instead of my working hours starting by say 8am, it ends up starting at 11am or even 1pm. So to prevent the bad habit of starting my day late, I have to first avoid the trigger, which is watching a late-night movie the previous day.