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Loving Yourself is a Good Habit to Start

Daylle Deanna Schwartz of http://www.daylle.com has tagged me to continue with the conversation on
“The Creating Better Habits Challenge”

This Challenge is to identify behavior that can be replaced by better habits.

You can read her “The Creating Better Habits Challenge” post Here
http://www.lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat.com/2007/12/creating-better-habits-challenge.html

Thank you for tagging me Daylle, nice to play with you.

Talking about habits, everybody will have the good, the bad, and the ugly habits. Me too

Let’s talk about the Bad habits that I have turned to Good.

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Bad Habit 1
Watching too much TV

Turned To Good 1
Limit to only weekends, and
also reduced the watching time.

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Bad Habit 2
I don’t like wasting time but I do have a weakness for this.
Addicted to playing video games. Sometimes can be long hours
Becos I love to see graphics. Nice graphics in a game will somehow grab my attention..

Turned To Good 2
Now I don’t play so often, even if I play, I limit my time. Of course, I still love to play

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Bad Habit 3
Don’t like to wash dishes, so
I will place my dishes
at the sink, soak them with
washing liquid, and only wash
it before I go to bed :/ very bad habit !

Turned To Good 3
Now wash them quickly, some improvement here, I wash them right after eating
..unless I am in a bad mood..I may fall back to this bad habit, thank God is not often now

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Bad Habit 4
When I goof, I will scold myself, and call myself not so nice names, and get angry with myself.. and sometimes it can last for days.

Turned To Good 4
Now I am kinder to myself, and have learned to love myself more, won’t call myself names. A good friend suggested to me to do this, calling myself lovingly and it works like magic. So now I call myself “Darling” whenever I talk to myself. . Btw, I highly recommend you to call yourself that, it works wonders! It’s a magical word. Try it, you will love it.

I will say things like “ Hey,darling, you forgot to do this today, do it now, dear” If it was in the past,
it will be like this :

“ You have forgotten to do this again !!! What are you thinking now?
Get on with it now !!!” (the military style) :/

I will tell you an ugly habit here :/

When I am in a very bad mood, I tend to look at things and even people more critically.

Thank God it happens only when I am in a Very Bad Mood, it is not often

Well, that only proves one thing,, I am not dead but is a living, breathing live human you know..:)

I was in the service line in the past, in the financial industry, I dealt with clients face to face, and delivering what I have promised my clients is very important and crucial to me and my business. When my clients are happy, I am happy. So when I am being served by other people in the service line, I tend to judge them by the standard I put on myself.

One time I had a dealing with a bank officer. She received my request to do something quite important and urgently for me, and she also promised that she will have it done at such and such a time.

So I happily waited for her to come back with my request done by the time she promised. I waited.. waited and waited.. no response from her, so I tried calling her, but could not get her on the line. I left many messages,, still no reply!

Happened that day I was in my worst mood :/ she called me back.

She really had it from me left, right, center.. I could feel she was melting at the other end… I really let it all out!

I consider this as a bad habit, because I never give the person a chance to explain to me and also being extremely critical when I am in a very bad mood.

I have ruined two relationships with two guys and I really smack myself for being that.

Ok, now I have to give myself not a smack but a pat on myself, because I have improved in this area. I am more patient with myself and others, even though I am in a bad mood.

Great improvement!

Ok, since I have turned many bad habits to good, I now have many good habits

Good questions to ask ourselves, when talking to ourselves.

1. How can I make it better?

2. Does this help or benefit others and myself if I do this?

3. If I do this, what kind of results will I probably get?

4. How can I improve on this?

5. Am I treating others and myself fairly?

6. How do I want others to treat me ?, then do the same.

My existing good habits:

1. Eating well & not over eat
2. Take my daily supplements consistently
3. Exercise
4. Reading and listening to self improvement materials
5. Putting a limit on myself, when I feel the things
   I am doing is not helping me.

That’s all folks You are next. I am tagging the following people to play

Lorraine Cohen
http://www.powerfull-living.biz/blog

Hueina Su
http://blog.beyondhorizoncoaching.com

Karen Lynch
http://www.livethepower.com/blog

Lyman
http://creatingabetterlife.net

Peter
http://www.iwillchangeyourlife.com

My darling Me
Gamy Rachel
Be InSpired

Quotes on Habits

Bad habits are like chains that are too light to feel until they are too heavy to carry.
~Warren Buffet

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
~Mark Twain

First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they’ll eventually conquer you.
~Dr. Rob Gilbert

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