Did you know that the majority of your behavior is habitual?

Is this good or bad?

That is a trick question. It is because by doing things the way we did them before, we can conserve the limited resources of our attention for more urgent or important problems. Let me give you a few examples. The way you drive to work or what you do every evening may have become a habit. The concern is; are these habits helping or hurting you?

I believe that some of us have switched to automatic pilot for many of the things we do in our lives. Sadly, these automatic pilot trips are really not good adventures any more. I say that because we’ve fallen into bad habits. Let me give you an example; consider the person who comes home from work every day and drinks too much alcohol. They are not doing themselves any good or those that they are with.

So relying on an automatic pilot for many of your actions is very undesirable, especially if they lead you on a path that leads to no where.

So in order to change one’s behavior you and I need to change/improve our habits. I wrote change/improve for effect. We first have to work on changing our habit(s) then we can improve them. I say that because with any change – it does not happen overnight. You will have to keep on fine tuning the little changes you make and then you will start to see improvement.

What can you do today that will start to correct your bad behaviors?