Bad Habits

What is your worst habit? The one thing you do that you wish you could stop doing? Are you a smoker? A cheater? Habitual junk food eater? Bank robber? (just seeing if you're paying attention here). We all have little or big habits that we wish we could change at times but part of us really enjoy doing them. If we didn't we probably wouldn't keep doing them.

What about these habits makes them bad? Are they unhealthy for us or those around us? Are we under pressure from society to not do it so as to "be a better person"? After all someone who is a good person but *gasp* smokes cigarettes and eats at Mcdonalds every day is not as good as if they didn't, right?

If you are one if those "evil" people with a bad habit are you trying to quit? Why or why not? I myself often go between procrastinating on quitting to deciding I should just enjoy it to quitting and going back after a few weeks (Lol). Sometimes all it takes is a commercial with some nuggets in them, or some food on a television program. We all have our triggers, I suppose.

The key is how important is it to you that you correct the behavior? Is it life or death? For some it definitely is. If that's the case many find that fact to be the only motivation you need. I'm sure there are varying levels of apathy that would cause the person to require more motivation than that. Who is to say whether I or anyone else might lack the desire to change depending on what the behavior is.

For those of us who's situation is either not that dire or we just need more motivation than life or death. What does it take? Most would consider "what's the worst that could happen? Could I get fired or not get a job? Lose my wife, husband, kids,etc ? Miss out on an opportunity?  Get sick? If you can chalk it up to not much, regardless of the truth, one could continue on and on doing whatever it is.

I'm sure we all have some habit or habits we want to change for whatever reason. The question becomes why are you trying to change the behavior? Are you genuinely interested in changing or do you simply feel pressure from others to change? Is it really your issue to correct? Sometimes others either are so insecure about their own issues that they project them onto others until everyone believes the "other person" has the issue and needs to change. Or maybe it's simply a case of these people don't need to change they just need to accept that the relationship is not working. We can change behaviors and attitudes but not the fundamental things that make us ourselves. If we compromise that for a relationship we are not staying true to who we are as individuals.

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