Introduction
Most of us find ourselves too often repeating the same mistakes, stuck in bad habits, and few of us understand why. Procrastination, lack of assertion, disorganization, smoking, overworking, poor sleep habits, lack of consideration, depressed shopping, Internet addiction—all the way up through drug addiction and deliberate self-harm.
Generally we know what we’re doing to ourselves, and we keep promising to reform. Indeed, we do try, often enough, but these habits are hard to break. Every time we try but fail, we become more hopeless and more critical of ourselves. Self-destructive habits like these are the greatest source of unnecessary misery in our lives.
Guilt serves a purpose if it gets us to change our ways, but too often we don’t, and then we carry an unnecessary burden around. Or you may do things that hurt you directly—too much drinking or drugging, cutting yourself, taking dangerous chances, getting into fights, developing an eating disorder. You’ve probably tried many times to stop, because seems like it should be so easy. You know very well what the right choice is, yet you keep making the wrong one. Why in the world can’t you stop?
Culled from Rewire by Richard O'connor
Abdulkareem, Taoheedah Kehinde
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