How to get rid of negative habits - advice from the Norwegian guru of self-development
Eric Bertrand Larssen is a Norwegian author and coachfor personal growth. His book "On the Limit", published in the publishing house "Mann, Ivanov and Ferber" at the beginning of the year, has already become a bestseller. Thousands of people share on social networks their achievements, which are easy to find by hashtag # Hellscene. If you are also ready to meet the best version of yourself, then find out how Larssen offers to get rid of negative habits.
What is habit?
Any habit is repetitive and oftenunconscious model of behavior, recorded by multiple reproduction. And most importantly, habits are not caused by instincts, they are the result of memorization.
It is with habits that the path to life begins, owhich you always dreamed of. Why? Because our daily rituals say a lot about who we are and what we can do. Habits influence our behavior, govern our priorities and proclaim our solutions. And what is most interesting, very often we do not even notice it. But habits are not only positive, but also negative. With all that it implies.
Harmful habits adversely affect ourdevelopment. Useful habits make us more effective, aiming at achieving the goal and freeing up time for other activities. Now do you understand why it is important to get rid of bad rituals?
Make a list of your habits
When we talk about changing habits, very muchit is important to assess your position soberly - what habits do you have? It is important to list both good and bad. This applies both to everyday - what you eat for lunch, how to manifest yourself at meetings, and to mental habits - how to conduct an internal dialogue, how to react to unforeseen circumstances.
Take a piece of paper and write down your positive and negative habits. All that come to mind. Be honest with yourself and try to remember all of your rituals.
Scroll in your memory for your usual day - a minute forminute - and ask yourself: "How do I usually behave? What am I doing? How can I change and improve my habits? ". If you can not remember the habits, then start collecting feedback. Ask your friends and colleagues what good and bad habits you are familiar with.
Replace bad habits with useful
After you have made a list of habits, youshould be noticed that among the useful you have also harmful rituals. Someone overeats, others do not follow their physical form, others are always late. We all have negative habits, but they can always be replaced by positive ones.
Carefully consider actions that are badaffect your condition now or adversely affect your future. Think of a useful habit that will help you deal with the negative. For example, if you are lazy to go to the gym in the evening, then start in the morning to prepare the form and put it in your bag. Or if you eat too often sweet, then sign up for cooking classes that will help you not only enjoy healthy food, but also prepare it yourself. In other words, for every harmful action, find resistance.
Start Small
Sometimes it is difficult to make the first step, sostart small. If you want to go to bed earlier, get up early, plan your time carefully, do sports or children more. You need one minute to make a change! Just imagine - one minute a day. One of the 1,440 minutes that make up the day, you certainly can devote to change. If you get up late, set the alarm for a minute earlier than normal and stand up a minute earlier than always. If you do not exercise, start training from one minute. How many push-ups can you do in a minute? How many steps can you take? Never planned your day? What do you have time to plan in sixty seconds?
One minute is just the first step. The next will be two minutes. In a month you will have half an hour. In two - an hour, which, perhaps, was your goal. In combination with internal dialogue and visualization, it's not so difficult to change one's habits.
If you are ready to accept the challenge, overcome your opportunities and become the best version of yourself, then join the detachment of people who have tried life "At the Limit". You'll like it.













