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The Problem With Habits — Why We Act Too Late When Life Turns Bad
Most of us only see our lives going down the drain when it is already too late.
We don’t recognize the problems when they occur and only in hindsight do we realize that we made a wrong turn somewhere along the way.
But how does this even happen?
How do we not recognize our life turning upside down if we are living it every day?
And how come we fall into the same traps over and over again?
It happens because we slowly fall back into our old habits every time!
Almost every person on this planet wishes to be better than they were before, and we all start out strong when we first create another positive habit, but it rarely lasts.
Only very few people today have built the discipline to stick with the positive habits they start no matter what happens.
The problem for the rest of us comes in when something unexpected happens, such as when we get a big project at work or have a family emergency and our lives become hectic or when we realize that the reward from the habit is not as good as we thought it was.
It’s in times that we are crunched on emotions, motivation, time or energy that we remove things that are not certain, such as some…