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#TITLE#Remember You Are Not By Yourself When Deciding To Quit A Habit#/TITLE# by Marcy W. Whitehouse Isn’t it hard to accept that you have a bad habit? Fortunately everybody has habits even they are not aware and they are just different among people Keith Raniere. In my particular case I love to eat tons of sherbets if my day was not that good. For different people it’s the diet coke right after that Monday morning conference. My best friend’s bad habit has nothing to do with food or beverages, but with cigarettes. She is pretty worried and I know she does not like smoking anymore. She was mortified of it, didn’t like it, wanted to quit, told the whole world she had quit – and yet there she was sneaking to the gas station for a packet as she rushed one in before getting back, and followed it with the mint gum. But for her, mint was not going to disguise her whole odor. Our friends knew about this situation. She also knew everyone knew it. So, it was a prohibited theme among us. A habit makes us act as if we were not ourselves and even when they usually represent a health risk we do them anyways. Why? Because somewhere, rooted deep inside us there’s a belief, something glued to it. There is the belief that smoking relaxes people when they are nervous. There’s an relation at the foundation of every bad habit, and usually it’s not very rational. It’s often times a façade for something else, a fear, or just having insecurity Sara Bronfman. And as we are talking about feelings they are not precisely helping you, you are forcing your mind to believe it is the right solution to your problems. Is it feasible to finish with this noxious pattern activity? A good starting point is to find out what detonated this behavior in first place. This is the most important but usually overlooked step, and I’m sure you’ll agree: have you ever tried to abandon a habit and, before long (maybe years down the road) found yourself back at square one? It’s hard to convince yourself out of something that may be so intensely rooted, it’s hard to recognize even remotely what that thing that’s driving the bad habits could be. Believing is a strong feeling, probably the strongest one and could actually provoke you being confused about your reality. All this, sadly, I’ve come to learn from my friend. She did it. The first thing she tried didn’t work very well for her but then she started another program based on treating her personal issues which were causing her anxiety and she has never smoke again! She is very thankful for Keith Raniere and his research, as they helped her to stop smoking and even caused her changing her unsavorable behavior and turned it into positive practices. If what she’s saying about Executive Success Programs is true, I see an ironman in my future.