Do habits affect self confidence?
It is difficult to tell where we are going wrong in life sometimes due to the fast pace of the world and our lives.Do you ever find yourself going over and over things you have experienced then fear not as you are not alone. These feeling are because fulfilment is different for everyone. What I mean by that is just because you have reached a ‘normal’ level in life it does not necessarily mean you are going to be content.
So how can we change these feelings? How might we get out of the rut we find ourselves in from time to time. First you need to determine if you are stuck in a rut or not, do this by looking at the condition of your life next to the patterns of your behaviour. In other words look at the habits you have been unwilling to change that may be preventing you from taking the next step in your life.
Let’s take a closer look at the concept of habit. Habit is a form of behaviour that automatically directs your activities without the need for conscious thought. There are minor habits such as nail biting, to the extreme habits that begin to take the form of OCD. But you may be surprised to know that in our day to day lives and the way we act are due to established habits.
These habits are what form our personality, which in essence is what we are. It would be very confusing if we kept changing them all the time. One of the floors of mankind is people thinking that they are unchangeable, thinking ‘I have always been like this I can’t change’, when if they looked deeper they would find the really course for change. Which means we look to change our circumstances without looking at the true cause of our situation – ourselves! Specifically the way we think.
If we can identify these habits and how they make us behave with the people around us, we will be able to make trivial changes to them. Learning to control the habits that are affecting our mental wellbeing and holding us back, will help us develop socially while only making a little difference to our personality.
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