Accept that you’re having bad habits. No one is perfect and there is nothing shameful about having bad habits, as long as you want to improve yourself. You have to be extremely clear that acceptance isn’t inaction. Acceptance breeds self-honesty, leads to accurate perception of yourself and opens doors for all potential improvement in future.
For example, a lot people don’t even accept the fact that they are overeating. When you tell them about their bad habits, they usually become defensive and tell you that they are simply rewarding themselves for their hard work, enjoying what they deserve or that’s who they are. By not accepting who they currently are, they hold inaccurate perception about themselves. How are people going to change their bad habits when they don’t even first accept that they have them? You may want things to be different in the next minute, but at the moment you must learn to accept things as they are. Okay, so currently I do overthink a lot. That’s a bad habit I have right now, and I would like to break it. I told myself honestly some time ago. It was a reflective and sober experience. By doing so, I accessed the power to break it. Visualize your worst self with the bad habits. For instance; Even if you know taking excessive sugar will slowly kill yourself, it’s hard to break that habit because well, you’re still healthy now. In other words, knowing your bad habits intellectually is important, but not sufficient. You also need to experience the consequences it brings emotionally.