Habits, it's origin and types.

What is a habit?

Habit is the combination of repeated actions a person follows frequently, daily, or unintentionally, touching the nose/ hair while talking, bathing twice a day, and biting nails are the respective examples.

Origin of habits:

Habits are less created but more adopted, a newborn baby who is born blank will adopt the habits of the people in surrounding, he will adopt what he observes, that's why the child of an aggressive person is more aggressive than the child of a calm person.
Habits are adopted unintentionally, as science says, you are an average of the 7 persons, you spend your most time with, therefore it's necessary to choose wisely.

Types of habits:

There are two types of habits:

1.       Good Habits

2.       Bad Habits

1. Good Habits:

Good habits are mostly those which a person must create intentionally to make his life better. Good habits are adopted unintentionally only at an early age when a kid is in an adoption mode, once a kid became able to decide then it's his choice either to adopt good habits or not, reading daily, praying, honesty are some examples are good habits:

How to adopt good Habits?

Good habits are difficult to adopt because we must adopt them intentionally by accepting the efforts, we have to make for it, one can adopt good habits by visualizing the long term benefit they will achieve after successfully adopting them.

Example:

Waking up early for Jim is a good habit but most of us didn't adopt it because the body pain and suffering from exercising is hard to bear. You have to consistently go for it and you will get a little bit of transformation approximately after a year.
To adopt this habit, you must have a delayed gratification mindset. Imagine how your body will look like after a year if you're fat now, imagine how better your health will be, after deciding that you are ready for that pain, go for it daily, and within a month, it would be easy for you to jump out of your bed and soon it will become your habit.

2. Bad Habits: 

Bad habits are those which a person mostly adopts unintentionally, for fun, pleasure, or instant reward. No one adopts bad habits intentionally, mostly people are either influenced or forced emotionally to adopt the bad habit, it is adopted at every age and soon it becomes an addiction.

How to quit bad habits?

Bad habits are difficult to quit because people are attached to the pleasure they get after practicing bad habits, one can quit any bad habits after realizing the fact that how it will ruin your life in the long term.

Example:

Smoking is a bad habit in which every second person is involved, you know that it will cause cancer but the nicotine chemical in it, which activates pleasure hormones in your mind forces you to have it.
To quit this habit, start buying a single cigarette every time you need it from the shop which is a little bit away from your house, and doesn't use the vehicle.
In other words, make it tough to approach the bad habit, if you're having 5 cigarettes now, adjust in 4, after a week 3, then 2, and then 1. After a month you can leave it and if you still urge, have it weekly but make it tough to approach and within a few months, you will quit that bad habit.

Conclusion:

Good and bad habits together make the personality of a person, it is your job to intentionally adopt or quit any habit. The best practice is to make it easy to adopt good habits and make it tough to approach the bad ones.