One of the bad habits I had back in a day was spending hours and hours on Facebook I was an avid user during my teenage years when the platform first came out it was the best way to socialize with your friends and plan events but the reason why I spent so much time on the platform wasn't because I was talking to my friends or organizing a party it was because of the newsfeed the newsfeed is designed to put you into a sort of trance because well Facebook wants you to spend more time on their platform and it worked like a charm I was easily spending one two and sometimes even three hours every single day mindlessly scrolling down and down and down watching pointless videos being bombarded with ads to buy stuff and worst of all looking at the supposedly better lives of people that I kind of knew so later on when I discovered the world of self-development I realized that I had to get rid of this bad habit but I didn't want to delete facebook altogether how else was I gon...
The people who try to overcome their addictions is that they somehow get motivated maybe they watch the video read a forum post or maybe they overheard someone else quitting and getting tons of benefits whatever it is they feel like this time is going to be special this time I'm gonna stay clean for good they have all that motivation but they have no strategy no plan of what to do other than to stay away from their substance of choice they're essentially just throwing it against the wall and hoping that it sticks and more often than not the majority of people fail in fact a study found that only 1 in 10 Americans ever overcome an addiction so it's safe to say that this plan isn't that effective what I have found is by simply sticking to a strategy any strategy your chances of success skyrocket that's why groups like Alcoholics Anonymous are so effective they follow a strict set of rules and they have a battle plan you need to have the same mindset when it co...