LIFE LESSONS
Your Self-Awareness Can Destroy Bad Habits
It takes the right focus
Instead of looking for a quick fix or begging others for advice, I found that your own self-awareness can destroy bad habits.
Yes, I know. It’s a bigger shock than finding out that R. Kelly should be banned from recess — but it’s true. I became a curious consumer of alcohol back in 2000, and within months, I was hooked.
But the allure of drinking wasn’t the taste, which was absolute garbage. Actually, I never could pinpoint what was so compelling about getting hammered to the ceiling from brewskis and hard liquor.
Until last year.
I challenged myself to go an entire month without drinking a drop of alcohol, something I hadn’t done in 20 years. I managed to pull it off and I came away with an unbelievable discovery.
As I dug deep into my years of drinking, I discovered that I was simply doing it because it was there, or it was offered to me, or I had the means to buy the poison.
I had gotten so deep into the habit of drinking as just “something to do,” that I didn’t realize I was simply following a mental pattern that became a compulsive habit.
