Changing Unhealthy Habits

The Complete Men Podcast

Jun 27 2023 • 15 mins

In this episode, Paul will talk about some common unhealthy habits many people struggle with and will give some examples of unhealthy habits he has dealt with over the years and today. Paul will discuss the 'Law of 100', and he finds it helps him in changing an unhealthy habit into a positive one. Some common unhealthy habits people have include
- too much time on social media
- distraction when driving
- being too hard on oneself
- multitasking
- stress eating
- smoking and excessive drinking of alcohol
- nail biting
- numbing through pornography
- overspending
Paul will mention some other tips to consider when giving up unhealthy habits and living a more productive life. This include
- increasing and decreasing certain cue's in one's environment
- making it harder to follow through with unhealthy habits and easier to follow through with productive ones.
- preparing items the night before
- making a list
- identifying the cause of the bad habit
- replacing the bad habit with an alternative behaviour
- not being too hard on oneself
- rewarding oneself.

References
Intro music-  Thrive by All Good Folks from album Music Vine
Outro music- Revelations by Richard Smithson from Uppbeat

  1. The mindset mentor ‘the law of 100’ by rob dial, 11/11/2022.
  2. Lifehack.org ‘25 bad habits you need to quit right now’. By celestine Chua. 25/10/2022.
  3. Improvement pill. ‘How to change your habits-the easiest way’ 28/2/2019.
  4. Psych central ‘ways to change a habit,’ by Joslyn Jelinek 29/7/2021.