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The Process That Helped Me Break All My Bad Habits

Lukas Schwekendiek
4 min readMay 8, 2024

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I broke a lot of different habits in my life, all with very different reasons:

  • I Stopped eating Junk Food because it always made me feel horrible afterwards. Yes, it still tastes great, but the awful feeling afterwards is not worth it anymore. Instead I started cooking and eating healthier. It does take more time but I feel far better because of it. (Although I will admit to having junk food still once a month.)
    - I used to go to McDonald’s, Pizza Hut, or Burger King every day.
  • I Stopped Staying up Late because it ruined my mornings which ruined my days which ruined the things I wanted to accomplish in those days. Not having a good start in the day caused me to be sluggish and demotivated for the rest of the day, something that I didn’t want to deal with anymore.
    - My average sleep schedule at the time was 3 a.m. — 11 a.m. or noon.
  • Stopped Watching TV mainly because the commercials annoyed me to no end. Why would I spend 30 minutes watching a 20-minute show and then ads for 10 minutes? That’s literally wasting 1/3 of my time!
    - At the height of this bad habit I watched all of ‘Friends’ in a week.

These are just a few of the daily habits I used to have, but there were many more that I stopped doing.

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Lukas Schwekendiek
Lukas Schwekendiek

Written by Lukas Schwekendiek

Life Coach, Speaker, Writer. Published on TIME, Inc & Huffington Post. Coaching available again! Email: Lukas.schwekendiek@gmail.com with the word "Coaching"

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