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If you have found it difficult to create and stick to a habit, you might have had a burst of joy on seeing the headline because it’s just one life…

Anyways, habits can be bad just like the heading says but habits are like the stepping stone to being an excellent person thereby producing excellent results.

Check here https://priscilla.water.blog/2023/03/22/mindset-x-habits/ to learn about habits and how they can be created.

Here are some of the reasons, habits are bad…

• Habits can lead to unknowing errors

“It takes 21 days to create a habit”. Well, once you have created that habit and it becomes something you do without much thought, you wouldn’t realize when you start making little errors here and there as it has become mindless for you and also effortless.

Think about this: you wake up every morning and for most people, there is an unintentional routine that happens. It has become mindless and you rarely think about the action you are undertaking while on it because it’s already imbibed in you. So even if you started brushing wrong, it would take deep reflection to point that out.

• Habits can lead to rigidity
  When you have become so good at doing something, in most cases you just want to stick to it as the occasion arises.

Life is ever changing and different advancements are changing the way we live and work everyday. Your habits can make you ignore choices even when you know they are better choices.

• Habits in some cases don’t produce Excellence
  When you gain mastery of a habit, in the long run, there is a decline in the performance not because you aren’t doing it the same way but because habits are mindless and you put in little or no deliberate thinking into it.

When you have a habit and you add in deliberate practice, thinking and review of it, it leads to Excellence.

Habits aren’t bad after all because you cannot optimise what you haven’t standardised.

All you need is just an awareness of self, plus a lot of deliberate actions into taking stock of your habits and seeing areas you can make a review, step up on or back out of.

Don’t get stuck up with building a habit that you relegate growth and deliberate thinking.

I hope this was helpful.

Thank you for reading.