Changing Behavior In my life as a claims reviewer, so far I have observed lots of people, unknowingly, carrying around tons of bad behavioral habits. Bad behaviors that have bounded them, far away from loving relationships, their career goals, ambitions and most importantly their good-self. Taking a time out for myself and thinking over made me realized that I am very similar to all those people I had come across. I myself am infected with behavioral habits that have a negative influence on my life. So I shall strive for betterment.
The Two Behaviors Considering most of my negative habits and bad influence on my life, almost most of them are driven from the stressing habit that I possess. The majority of the habits are a consequent of
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After realizing that, I decided to take small steps to pull myself together and change for the better. Below are the micro-actions I would take to change the behaviors: Self-care: To avoid emotional disruption and high stress level as a way out. I will eat healthy, sleep well and exercise instead. For it releases endorphins and encourages emotional stability. Building a Social Circle: If surrounded by positive influence and close ones will make me feel positive about myself. Furthermore, with people that I truly care about. I shall have more at risk to lose. Thus the social group should keep me motivated from avoiding both; stress and anger.
Developing interest in new activities: Finding new hobbies and doing things in which lies a sense of meaning for me.
Finding beneficial ways to release stress: Finding things like meditation, playing music or breathing exercises as healthy way to release stress rather than keeping everything inside as an run away. This will allow me to stay stress free and calm injunction with being
radical change in your lifestyle and begin in boldly do things which you may previously
... person and we choose our own destiny, we can't sit around and blame anyone if we feel depressed or if our lives seem a mess. We need to be strong and follow our dreams, quit acting stupid and change our behaviors by taking leaps and risks. It may be hard and scary at times but that's all part of life and we have to work for what we want. Dr. Laura Schlessinger states, "Once we muster the courage to take responsibility for our own problems and to tolerate the discomforts of risk, the possibilities for personal growth and joy are limitless (223).If you are prepared to hear the truth of how we let certain behaviors ruin our life and ready to make changes to them, than a good place for you to start would be by reading this book.
Another behavior that I could work on is that I tend to keep some things inside that I dwell on things longer than necessary. For instance, I had my first girlfriend when I was in college. We broke up after a few months, but I had already fallen in love with her, and took the break-up hard. (“My Virtual Life” Emerging Adulthood) I only told a close friend Sarah and my best friend Alex about it, and they both insisted that I go talk to someone about it, but I didn’t go. They said
Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit, acknowledges how habits control our daily lives in every decision we make. For Instance, an ambitious woman named Lisa Allen, has not always had a fruitful life. Previously, she had abused her body with harmful toxins such as tobacco and alcohol since the beginning of her teenage years. Carrying out these habits everyday resulted her into being unmotivated and unconfident. In fact, she never kept a job longer than a year and began to fall into major debt. “She needed a goal in her life, she thought. Something to work toward” (xii-xiv). It begins with the “three-step loop” a cue that triggers our brain to do the habit. Next a routine, a set of actions that are either physical or mental. Finally a reward of satisfaction that determines whether or not this habit will be continuous (19). Not all habits can be good, but this is where the golden rule applies. Duhigg explains that in order for you to change your habit “ you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine”(62). “However, simply understanding how habits work- learning the structure of the habit loop makes them easier to control”( 20). Reading The Power of Habit, helped me understand the process by which I made a positive change to fight procrastination.
My experiences with behavioral change comes mostly from the self-work I have done. Prior approaches to discussing behavioral change with a friend, client, or acquaintance are reflections of content and feeling, summarizing, joining, open and closed ended questions, active listening, and simply engaging in dialogue. I have experienced little results in the form of feedback from people I have talked with. Many conversations with others have turned out to become all about me. However, within the last few terms at school, I have actively practiced my reflection skills and have seen and experienced positive results. My readiness to apply motivational interviewing is at a six out of ten. I am
These habits will help said individuals to have an effective and successful life. The first idea that the author presents is that individuals should be more proactive instead of reactive. Proactive individuals think through the situation that is being presented to them and how to resolve it in an educated manner while thinking of the outcome it can have while reactive people right by stating what first comes to their mind and do not think about the aftermath of the situation. On page 79 Covey hints how “Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by their
Attention Getter: Life is like a huge roller coaster, a journey full of twists and turns, and ups and downs. And sometimes in this journey there arises various situations where one is unable to deal with these turns, let alone have the energy to face the ups and downs. In situations when the downward spiral becomes difficult to overcome it seems to linger on and on. The major cause of such feelings, are the chaotic activities of life. Stress is no stranger to our daily life. Stress in its severer form can lead to everything that we care about and love become strained and puts a burden on our physical and mental health. Therefore, we must take a hold of our stress, hang on to life and practice helpful techniques to vanish these stressful dilemmas. When we understand our situation, the better we will be able to get through them with ease.
(c)Exercise: I am going to employ exercise and drinking much water as a way to control stress. When I am stressed up I suddenly turn to something else and unconsciously behaves different from the ways I really am.
Throughout my live, my behavior towards change has evolved into a more mature acceptance of the inevitable. As an adolescent, I failed to contemplate the reasoning behind changes that occurred within my life. I neglected to seek the deeper meaning of why modifications were being implemented. However, as an adult, I consider the rationale and possible outcome of the change taking place. I have grown to realize that the success of each individual situation depends on the attitude it is approached it with (Blais & Hayes, 2011).
For this paper I decided to take a second and evaluate my life and think about what were some of my current lifestyle habits and behaviors and which out of these habits would I like to change. After sitting down and evaluating all of my main habits I categorized them into groups of which ones were helping to lead me to a long healthy lifestyle and which ones were likely to lead me to an unhealthy life and lifestyle. After narrowing these unhealthy habits down to my top three I decided to focus this paper and my attention on my current nutrition and most of all on my negative eating habits. After evaluating my lifestyle and all of my unhealthy habits I felt that my current nutrition level and eating patterns were in need of the most improvement and change.
Healthy living is a huge step in life, especially in this day and age. This whole course focuses on having healthy lifestyle, making the changes necessary to maintain one, and gives the learner step-by-step instructions of where to start. There are multiple reasons why someone should make a behavior change. Some could include health reasons, to support family members, or some decide to make the change because he or she wants to live healthy. Personally, my family affects a lot of the decisions in my life. Growing up, I was used to taking care of my older sister and I was used to changing my diet to fit what plan my mom had for the week. My behavior change was always dependent on them. During this course, I learned a lot of how the social cognitive
Gain self-awareness- am aware of myself regarding my knowledge and my judgments. I get angry very quickly; usually I keep myself in way that not to hurt others
The first thing is to make a list to help manage your stress. To help resolve problems, make a list of steps to fix the problem.
6- Learn to think more positively – Positive thinking is a powerful fashion to build self-confidence and counterbalance self-sabotage. I need to embrace the attitude of positive thinking in everything I
After the birth of my first child, I had to learn to develop constructive ways to vent anger. One of those ways was to go off alone, count to ten, and think about what it was that made me angry. After I discovered the root of my anger, I often asked myself, "Will it do me or anyone else any good to be angry?", and, "Will being angry do anything to solve the problem", and the answer to both questions was usually no. By the time I had done the walking and thinking, I was usually not angry anymore.