unhealthy habits :WEEK 165

Greetings to all the beautiful community @WEEKENDEXPERIENCIAS today I will participate in the initiative created by dear friend @galenkp where he exposes several topics, the ones I liked the most was What are two unhealthy habits you have, how do they impact you and what could you do to break them?

I have some bad habits, perhaps more than I would like. I will name a few: I often don't get enough sleep, I eat a lot of junk food, especially sugary drinks like soda, and I drink a lot of coffee a day. I tend to accept compromises I don't want, but I think one of the worst is wanting to be in control of everything and striving for perfection. Many times I tend to be very bossy and when I do something in my work, I try to make it go as well as possible. Perhaps this has often led me to get stressed and be very impatient. Over time I have realized that nothing and no one is perfect, and that the best teachers are mistakes, because they are the ones that teach us to keep improving every day. I have learned that no matter how much I stress myself, the best things are the ones that come at God's appointed time. I have also learned to delegate responsibilities and to share the work with people I trust. This has filled me with a peace that I did not have before.

We often defend our bad habits with indefensible logic and ignore useful advice. We stop learning new skills and tend to waste time on trivial matters. We entertain ourselves with useless conversations, eat unhealthy foods, fail to exercise, spend more money than we earn, avoid necessary conflicts, refrain from telling the truth, and don't ask for what we want. and we often wonder why our life didn't work out. Our life is a reflection of our habits and if our life is not as we would like it to be, we probably need to modify some of those habits. They require effort and discipline. A habit is nothing more than a behavior that we do naturally and without realizing that little by little it is harming and destroying us. Changing habits requires concrete actions to materialize what we want, it implies a lot of will and work, an iron discipline to fulfill them. A bad habit is not eliminated, it is replaced, because many times we have an attachment to that bad habit and, in the worst case, an addiction. And many times we ourselves know what we have to do to replace it.