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SELF-IMPROVEMENT
5 Toxic Habits You Should Wipe off to Improve Your Quality of Life
They are as toxic as eating processed foods; here’s how you can change them.
I consider myself four years old.
I believe that I was reborn four years ago when I realized that I had plenty of toxic habits in my life to address.
Looking at my life, I understood that I was heading nowhere, so I started to incorporate many healthy and positive lifestyle changes. Adopting positive mindsets and habits was one of them.
But developing new habits isn’t easy and takes some time.
In 1960, through his research study, Dr. Maxwell Maltz concluded in his book Psycho-Cybernetics that it takes a minimum of twenty-one days to change the old thought patterns and behavioral habits.
I used the same technique. Through willpower, I practiced every healthy habit for a minimum of twenty-one days.
However, the latest research study (in 2009) published in the European Journal of Social Psychology states that it takes 18 to 254 days for a person to form a new habit.
It’s true.
Some of them took a long time, but I had an uncontrollable urge to change…
