Do have bad habits that need to be broken? We all have some form of bad habits that need to be broken. In the book, “Atomic Habits,” we’ll take a look at easy and proven way to build good habits and break bad ones.

HABITS are automatic, repeated behaviors accounting for 40% of daily actions, structure by a cue, craving response, and reward. It can be anything from smoking, overeating, or whatever else. Some habits can be addictive and hard to break.

Just because you have bad habits, it doesn’t mean that you are a bad person or bad to the bone. Good peoples have bad habits that they need to break as well.

If you’re having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn’t you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves not because you don’t want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change.

You learn these habits from your parents or childhood, good and bad habits. Throughout your life, you practice your habits and it grows on you. The longer you have them the harder they are to break. They are sunk in deep into our thinking process. It’s all about getting rid of your stinking thinking.

A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly-and , in many cases, automatically. That you are doing it without even thinking you’re doing it.

No matter what the habit may be, we put pressure on ourselves to make some earth-shattering improvement that everyone will talk about. Like the song, “Let’s give them something to talk about.”

Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement. Unfortunately, the slow pace of transformation also makes it easy to let bad habits slide.

Habits are a double-edged sword. Bad habits can cut you down just as easily as good habits can build you up. This is one of the reasons why it is so hard to build habits that last. People make a few changes, fail to see a tangible result, and decide to stop. If you find yourself struggling to build a good habit or break a bad one, it is not because you lost your ability to improve. This is why many New Year’s Resolution is broken early in January if not by February. It becomes hard to break those habits that formed you.

It’s good to set goals for yourself; but not always easy to achieve. When I turned 50, and saw that I have an Uncle who lived to be 84 and an Aunt on my real father’s side who lived to be in her 90’s, I made a goal to changed my diet and start eating healthier. I was doing good for awhile and even lost around 50 pounds. Things happened that put a damper on that goal.

Why is it so easy to repeat bad habits and so hard to form good habits?

Habits are like exercise, meditation, journaling, and cooking are reasonable for a day or two and then become a hassle. Changing our habits is challenging for 2 reasons: 1.) we try to change the wrong thing and 2.) we try to change our habits in the wrong way.

We are not born with a preset beliefs. Every belief, including those about yourself is learned and conditioned through experience.

A habit is a behavior that has been repeated enough times to become automatic. Like hearing things over and over again as a child that it becomes a part of you. Part of the way I am is because how I was raised and the what my step dad had drilled into our head.

Sometimes we crave certain habits like craving smoking, drinking, eating certain foods as chocolate, sweets, chips, even coffee. A person can even crave certain people to the point of them being a bad habit to break. You can’t just get them off your mind. They are not just in your mind but also in your heart as well. When that person isn’t around for some reason other then death, you cannot think straight. They are constantly in your thoughts and dreams. You miss that person so much you can’t think straight. You can’t get them off your mind. Your heart may be breaking because of it. I have someone like that in my life. I never thought it would happened that I would become attached to this person but it did.

Some people are able to break habits easily when they come to the Lord. I heard of stories of people who quit drinking cold turkey once they accepted the Lord. They were sanctified. I even heard someone being able to quit smoking because of people praying for them. So it can be do done in breaking bad habits; just that some habits are harder to break. I’m here to tell you that God is still working on my life. He’s helping me form good habits and get rid of bad habits. I’m a work in progress.

If you find yourself in needing help to break free from those bad habits, will you say with me, “Search me, O God, and know my heart today; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”

If you prayed this prayer, seek help immediately either through a good Bible preaching church, getting involve with AA or other agency to help you fight your demons whatever it may, get counseling by a good qualified counselor. There is help for you to break those bad habits that is harmful to you.