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Breaking bad habits

Some things are easy to change. You don't need me for those: you just do it.

Then, there's the other kind, the kind that seems to keep defeating you. You try... it's working for a while, then it's not. You try again, then stop... and you feel like a failure.

Why is this so difficult? Habits do not exist in a vacuum, they are intricately linked to many of the ways we think and feel and behave. For instance, smoking is not just the about the physical habit of smoking cigarettes; overeating is not just about consuming too much food...

The problem is, all these emotional links function pretty much below our consciousness. "Compulsive behavior" essentially means that we feel powerless over it.

Self-Leadership:
a proactive alternative to self-discipline