{"id":6412,"date":"2022-07-15T16:05:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T06:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eandl.com.au\/?p=6410"},"modified":"2023-01-03T11:37:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T00:37:44","slug":"slipping-into-bad-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eandl.com.au\/slipping-into-bad-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"Slipping into \u201cbad habits\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slipping into bad habits. It\u2019s so easy to do.\u00a0Of course, the definition of &#8220;bad&#8221; is subjective, but we delude ourselves when we deny that we do this. It\u2019s natural to slip back into what is familiar, habits or actions that are us on auto-pilot.<\/p>\n<p>These typical negative behaviour patterns are in all of us: procrastination, disorganisation, overspending, overindulging, avoiding certain tasks, \u2018doing things the way we always have\u2019; these are often the ways we deal with stress.<\/p>\n<p>In the short term, we often feel better, calmed, or even comforted.<\/p>\n<p>In the long term, though, we usually experience the opposite: negative feelings, high stress, health issues, self-doubt, or defensiveness, and in most cases, we have to face the negative consequences of having been on auto-pilot past its use-by date.<\/p>\n<p>People, situations, jobs, projects, and clients may find us outdated, disinterested, unhealthy, stagnant, or unqualified and will move on without us.<\/p>\n<p>In retrospect, our short-term avoidance of &#8220;discomfort&#8221; is quite small in comparison to the big, generally negative outcomes we experience for maintaining our &#8220;bad habits&#8221; and the costs to us professionally and personally. It is definitely not worth it.<\/p>\n<p>So the minute you notice yourself slipping, get a grip and change direction.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, do that task you don\u2019t want to do!<\/li>\n<li>Make sure you ask for help or guidance to do things differently.<\/li>\n<li>Build this in as your &#8220;new habit&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It takes practise and time, like with every craft we want to master. You build new muscles and muscle memory steadily. If you slip, no problem. Pause, get a new grip, and move on.<\/p>\n<p>This will allow you to continue to:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Build great long-lasting relationships<\/li>\n<li>Do great work for your clients<\/li>\n<li>Make money for the company<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So, minimise your slips with kindness, awareness, and honesty to yourself as you get a grip on your new habits.<\/p>\n<p>-Laura<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slipping into bad habits. It\u2019s so easy to do.\u00a0Of course, the definition of &#8220;bad&#8221; is subjective, but we delude ourselves when we deny that we do this. It\u2019s natural to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eandl.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eandl.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eandl.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eandl.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eandl.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eandl.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6418,"href":"https:\/\/eandl.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412\/revisions\/6418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eandl.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eandl.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eandl.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eandl.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}