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What's a habit you've broken?

Setsuna

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    Alright y'all let's get more positivity in here. What's a habit (or something similar) you've broken or gotten better at, for the better?

    To start, mine's been vagueposting. Talking bad about people without referring to them by name behind their back. I'd pretty much do it all the time whenever someone upset me but realized I was just doing it cause I was scared of talking to them directly or I was making excuses for myself. I'm not 100% better at it but I'll do it in a less harmful way (saying "this happened to me" rather than "someone did this to me and I'm mad") or I'll just say it straight to the person and talk things out with them.
     
    I quit drinking coffee and taking in any caffeine! And if anyone here knows me, they know that that's kind of a big deal since I was (and I guess still am) a HUGE coffee snob. I was really serious about coffee in a big way. (。･o･｡)

    But it started to give me problems.. like I was getting the shakes and headaches and finding myself more anxious from the caffeine than energized. So I slowly started to remove it from my daily life and completely quit! There was very little withdrawal too, which was nice.
     
    Pretty much the same as what @fairy said, I completely dropped caffeine out of my life.

    No coffee, tea, or any sort of soda.

    Found out caffeinated beverages were a contributor to anxiety. My life has been better since cutting that stuff completely. I would drink packs of them at a time (Sometimes 6-10 cans of soda in a single day). Narrowed it down to 2 sodas per day, 2 became 1, and now I don't drink them at all. Water became my beverage of choice, and I can't imagine going back anymore.
     
    Aisaka said:
    To start, mine's been vagueposting. Talking bad about people without referring to them by name behind their back. I'd pretty much do it all the time whenever someone upset me but realized I was just doing it cause I was scared of talking to them directly or I was making excuses for myself. I'm not 100% better at it but I'll do it in a less harmful way (saying "this happened to me" rather than "someone did this to me and I'm mad") or I'll just say it straight to the person and talk things out with them.
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    love to see the growth there. i knew a handful of people from college who would do this in real life, then there's the others who would full on name drop just to stir up drama here and there. being in my late teens was a wild ride.

    anyway, mine would be nail biting. i used to constantly do it, not even when i was nervous or anything, but out of sheer habit whenever my nails got long enough.

    overtime though, i found that they looked awful when they were chipped off by teeth instead of cleanly cut by a nail cutter. that, and realizing that it was incredibly dirty and i was attracting a lot of germs into my mouth... snapped me out of it rather quickly.
     
    I stopped my habit of bringing water bottles to my room. At night my mouth gets too dry and I need to have at least one bottle. But I would easily forgot to put them back on the fridge to have fresh water and instead kept borrowing another one until I had an army on my floor xD
     
    I was doing good with drinking more water but then I fell off the track and started drinking Pop again. I really need to get back on the right track and drink more water again. I've been trying to use that Cirkul water bottle and take it to work with me.
     
    I don't recall any habits I've broken, recently. But there are a couple I'm still working on:

    - try to take things others say about themselves seriously instead of making your own assumptions about them
    - try to cut down on the "coulds", "shoulds" and "woulds" because they make sentences way too complicated. Communication is already hard enough. No reason to make it even harder.
     
    Five years ago and before I had a bad pop/soda addiction. Seriously, it was bad. I don't even want to talk about how much I was drinking a day! But I kicked the habit by acquiring the taste for unsweetened sparkling water. I really thought it was the sugar I was addicted to, but it turns out it was actually just the carbonation I needed. I haven't looked back!
     
    ZeoStar said:
    Pretty much the same as what @fairy said, I completely dropped caffeine out of my life.

    No coffee, tea, or any sort of soda.

    Found out caffeinated beverages were a contributor to anxiety. My life has been better since cutting that stuff completely. I would drink packs of them at a time (Sometimes 6-10 cans of soda in a single day). Narrowed it down to 2 sodas per day, 2 became 1, and now I don't drink them at all. Water became my beverage of choice, and I can't imagine going back anymore.
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    Harmonie said:
    Five years ago and before I had a bad pop/soda addiction. Seriously, it was bad. I don't even want to talk about how much I was drinking a day! But I kicked the habit by acquiring the taste for unsweetened sparkling water. I really thought it was the sugar I was addicted to, but it turns out it was actually just the carbonation I needed. I haven't looked back!
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    Not a habit per se for me, but I generally avoid caffeine also.
    Growing up, we never had any coffee or tea around the house, but we almost always had Coke, and occasionally I would sneak to the fridge and take a swig.
    Now, being naturally hyper due to severe ADHD, too much caffeine made me unbearable to be around, and I cannot stand being this way. I have had days where if I had a little too much soda, at the end of the day I was crying in my bedsheets after realizing just how bad I embarrassed my self.

    Nowadays, if I want to drink soda, I stick to Sprite.
     
    Something I've gotten better at is worrying about other people's opinions. I remember back in middle school I was scared to tell people I liked Pokémon (or some other things I liked) because I thought people would think I was weird. My turning point on this mindset was last year at Halloween when I was dressed as Mabel Pines from Gravity Falls and I went trick-or-treating with my friends. At one of the houses we went to, there were popular girls from my school that I recognized and was praying they didn't recognize me. It was embarrassing to say "trick or treat" to them, but afterwards I realized that I shouldn't worry about what other people thought of me. So what if they recognized me? I can't do anything about it now.

    I've worn decora fashion to school 4 times now, painted bandages on my nose twice, did some crazy hairstyles (including sticking candy canes in a bun), and I felt confident because I liked what I was wearing and honestly I don't have time for the haters. 😎

    Wow, that came out longer than I anticipated...
     
    I stopped backing out of a lot of the opportunities I am given. Before I was too scared to go out of my comfort zone. Last year I told myself that I wanted to change and give every opportunity I am given a try, no matter how nervous I am about doing it whether that is an interview, hosting an event, meeting new people... I told myself that whatever happened, I'd be OK regardless of the outcome and happier that I tried. To this day I still struggle with wanting to back out whenever I feel anxious but I'm glad I pushed myself. :D
     
    Being submissive to do things for people when they can only help themselves. I used to be the victim, but now I hold the responsibility to trust my gut in case anyone is trying to manipulate me for doing the wrong things. In fact, if someone was able to walk and talk, that's just enough aid for them to accomplish the things they need in their lives. Nothing more but appropriate intention and self control. As I used to hate making mistakes, I am happy for making and accepting them to give myself the opportunity to improve my life so I won't make the same mistakes again. My advice is that if you make mistakes, and accept them to change for the better, you will be a more mature person. Otherwise, making the same mistakes shows that you aren't learning from them.
     
    Zaddd said:
    Being submissive to do things for people when they can only help themselves. I used to be the victim, but now I hold the responsibility to trust my gut in case anyone is trying to manipulate me for doing the wrong things. In fact, if someone was able to walk and talk, that's just enough aid for them to accomplish the things they need in their lives.
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    I didn't understand social stuff before and even now it's still a bit hard, made worse that I wasn't able to understand the language being used back then (spoke english in a different country) yes, I was manipulated a lot. I learned to still be kind while also saying no and to stop being a people pleaser, of course there's prolly more, I think? But I don't want to say much and this post is what summed it up for me. Props to you Zaddd.
     
    I used to drink multiple cans/bottles of soda a day every single day, now I drink maybe one soda once a month and that's at the most. I typically just drink water and black coffee now. I'm working on cutting out the coffee too eventually because I have bad anxiety to begin with and it makes it worse
     
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