Habits

 Habits die hard. Each time we engage in a bad habit, we make it more likely we’ll do it again in the future. But in the same way, each time we engage in a good habit, we make it more likely that we’ll do it again. You can learn to program your own brain so that making the right choices and exercising will power comes to seem easy and natural. Focused attention and practice, repeated over and over, will change the brain’s reward system, so that bad habits will lose their appeal and be replaced by new, self-constructive behavior patterns.

An important implication of these discoveries is the fact that learning is never lost. When we’re trying to break a bad habit by practicing more constructive behavior (eating right, exercising, being assertive), we can easily be discouraged by a bad day. We can give up and feel that we’ve wasted a lot of effort, but that’s not the case. Every day you practiced left its traces in the brain; you can get back on the horse after a fall and expect it soon to be as easy and rewarding as ever.

Culled from Rewire by Richard O'connor

Abdulkareem, Taoheedah Kehinde