Most of us have at least one habit that we know is unhelpful, in fact perhaps you can clearly see how at times it hinders your life. However, you choose to do nothing about it.
You’ve accepted the habit as part of who you are instead of it being something that you’re open to changing or even just working on. But mostly it hasn’t caused a big enough problem in your life for you to consider it to be something that needs to change.
Perhaps you’re habit is lateness. You’re always always late everywhere you go to the point where it’s now expected.
Then, one day you being late causes a significant negative implication to your life. You lose out on something important, miss out on money or ruin a relationship.
It’s only then that you truly consider that you might need to work on your punctuality. Up until that point there were no consequences for your lateness, it was simply just an unhelpful habit. But when you lose a job because of it you realise that actually it’s a bad habit because your life has been negatively affected as a result of it.
The Daily Gemm 