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>>5203048
If you live your life on auto, you'll stoop to the level of your habits.

With the internet always nearby, in our pockets when we take a walk and on our screens when we get home, we are- quite involuntarily- getting bombarded by heaps of information, and we're inclined to react to most of anything that comes to our attention. Do you really feel in control when you're just spending your days reacting to a constant stream of information? Isn't it tiring?

Don't get me wrong, changing your habits is hard. I'm here too. Having a plan to "get rid of an addiction" stacks the cards against you, you brand yourself with the addiction like you have some chronic illness. Getting a final reprieve from social media is wishful thinking.

But stepping away for just the moment is quite a lot easier.

Whenever you try to step away from your habits, you're bound to feel some resistance. If you feel that resistance, try to just observe it. It's just a feeling- you don't have to act on it. If you focus on how that feeling presents itself in the body, you'll realize that it's just a signal the body sends you, and it doesn't need to represent you as the one who controls what you do.

Returning to the moment in this way is a good habit to have. It teaches us to be more deliberate with what we do, and to me personally, helps me execute my goals.

Again, thinking we can just go cold turkey on all our bad habits is wishful thinking. But there are tools for actual change available to us in every moment.