Breaking the Bad Habits Project
Alana Clark
Breaking Bad Habits
GUIDE TO REACH HABIT GOALS
- Identifying the Behavior: The bad habit that I have identified is being addicted to caffeine drinks and sugary food that I have added in lunch and dinner, and on any time that it causes me to feel overwhelmed by subjects and events come up. I want to change this because it is affective towards my health in general and it can cause my mental state into hypersensitive that will affect sleep time at night, and sleeping later in the mornings that I rush to get things done at the last minute.
- Becoming Aware: I’m becoming aware of this habit as reading about how teeth can develop cavities in years later with drinking too much caffeine beverages as one of the factors and my thinking goes into overload. After limiting myself to how much I have each day made me feel better and calmer to think for plans.
- Choose A Substitute: I switch to having fruits and vegetables, and more water before having a caffeine beverage afterwards. Also, to have regular exercises in the early morning and have chores written down to keep myself active during the rest of the day.
- Eliminate Triggers: the triggers that causes the addiction to caffeine and sugary substance is the plan for change to the day-to-day plans for family events and upcoming vacation or family gathering, and productive projects that need to get done.
- Building Your Tribe: I have had my parents and relatives around when I start to experience this bad habit and seeing how it has affected me mentally and physically. I have my family and few friends around me at times when I start to feel overwhelmed and scared about certain events that can lead to worry, and they help in assuring me that everything is assured ahead to lessen stress and worries.
- Visualization: I want to see myself as someone who is able to accomplish more than one goal in my life that makes me feel positive about the good changes in my life that made a difference.
- Schedule Habits In Your Life: The schedule habits for my life are to plan to set an early bedtime, wake up in the morning to make a healthy breakfast, do a morning workout, and to do some chores around the house to make it feel as a comfortable environment while most days before heading to work.
- End The Negative Self- Talk: I have had this negative self-talk when there are certain events and subjects that I have failed at and have been putting myself down too much. I replace this negativity with a positive quote from good books that help me learn from my mistakes and to move forward, and to progress on the daily plans to help improve myself.
- Anticipate Failure: The anticipated failure is having more than one caffeine drink when I should have substitute for water is when I started to find myself failing at the goal that I wanted to have. Afterwards, I stop when reading the health papers in books and on health websites, and becoming hypertension in overthinking too much that one of my parents help me realize and comfort when feeling scared that I immediately start to change my bad habits and replace with good habits that are helping.
- Relapse: The certain relapse is when I have the craving for a sweet treat in the morning that I realize that and start looking for a healthy morning snack to help with my progress for my health, and do regular exercises daily to help. Also, hope that taking past experiences of failures as a learning to do better in this progress.