Bad Habits are Good

The habit that you possess might be bad, but you might want to consider and analyze it. These could be good habits too.All of us know that good habits are good, but I want to focus on the bad habits. Habits itself is not bad or good but when we use it and why we use it makes it bad or good. If you change the purpose of bad habits, it might be helpful for a successful life. No one is perfect, and habits don’t change overnight. As said “Practice Makes Man Perfect”, we have to practice to change our bad habits for our good.

Talking of bad habits, as some of my friends and family may say I have an irritating habit of asking why to everything. But, as I spot light on that habit of asking why to everything, it gives me clear knowledge of things why they are and what they are. I know there must be some reason behind everything and if you know the reason a simple thing may mean a lot to you.

Imagine there is a dashboard with all the buttons and switches for our habits, which we could turn on and off as our will, as our conditions changes. Bad habits are also denoted good when used in some specific condition and timing. In this post I tried to cast light on some of the bad habits which are good depending on the circumstances.

Procrastination: The action of delaying or postponing something.
We have this habit of procrastination, habit to delay things on purpose doing things for tomorrow, or even after 5 mins. It is a habit that will lag you behind. But this habit is good specially if you want to get rid of harmful addictions, like smoking or drinking or you name the rest. If you delay on things like smoking, you might not want it that bad after some time.

There is another way of saying no , say later to everything .This can be a challenge to oneself to see for how long can we not do something, something that is not helping us be better. This works for me when I want to buy something, something which is not important but still I have urge to have that. I postpone it for next store on the way, and when that store comes I’ll postpone for next on the way. Later, most of the time, I don’t want it any more or I like postponing it further, I don’t buy that.

I have had one friend who cured his habit of smoking by postponing when he want it most. He would not smoke when the urge is very high, but he smoked randomly, but that didn’t give him that satisfaction which he used to have in regular basis, when he was addicted to it. Since, it didn’t give him satisfaction, later he didn’t smoke, without any regrets.

Comparing With Others
This can be bad and good all the time. If you always compare yourself with other and become sad, then its bad but if you compare yourself with other and improve then its good. One should always see the positive side when comparing or being compared to. When we are compared to someone better than us or worst ones, we are getting to learn something we didn’t have without doing everything other person did. Now, we have choice to follow the path or do the things differently according to the person we have been compared to and the outcome we desired for.

I always remember one sentence “I was sad about my shoes, until I saw the person with no legs”. Everyone has, at least one thing that other people doesn’t have, and we have to be grateful about it. We do not have flaws all the time. If we do, we can improve on it, since we know what we lack.

The best person to compare ourselves is oneself. Compare your current self with past self and you can see you have changed a lot. If changes were good, keep on doing, if not, its time to stop it.

Know all: a person who behaves as if they know everything.
To be know it all, first you have to know the things you are talking about. Don’t be a know it all without actually knowing the things. Gather the resources, research, study. Nobody knows everything, but still we have tendency to learn many things. If I have to know all, I’ll have to know the most. The most of the things generally people don’t care and don’t know. We cannot speak nonsense and show know all, coz there might be someone who would surrender the talk.

So, know it all, as I think, is very good listener, stores the things he hears and uses it when its time to show off. He does his research, on topic first, before speaking about it to other people. Also in my view, those know all person have good common sense, which a lot of people don’t have. If you have common-sense and can relate things from one topic to another, you can show it off.

Everyone may look like narcissist, who act like they know everything. But, its not easy to be so, there are some serious talent we need to possess, which I mentioned above, being a good listener, researcher, and having common-sense.