>>7144
>Decide for yourself what holds you back and is detrimental to you and then eliminate one bad habit at a time
This.
I would also add that whilst eliminating 1 bad habit at a time, it's best to start 1 good habit at a time.
Don't focus on 1 or the other. Eliminating bad habits and starting good habits is not double the work, because the two actions are complimentary.
>eliminating bad habits without starting good habits
You will be left with a time and stimulation gap which used to be filled with your bad habit.
Even if you somehow get over the stimulation craving by sheer willpower, you will still be left with a time gap in which you used to spend on your bad habit (and of course that gap will be bigger with the more bad habits you eliminate).
You will have to fill that gap with something. If you don't fill that with a good habit, then you have to fill it with something that's not good. Common sense.
>starting good habits without eliminating bad habits
As mentioned above, there is a time-limit, and a stimulation-limit.
The time element isn't such an issue because it can worked around by multi-tasking. For example, you can exercise (good habit), whilst watching tv (bad habit).
However, this only works because both of these are fairly weak stimuli (assuming you aren't doing a really advanced exercise or watching a really complex tv show), so you don't reach your stimulation limit.
However, you *will* reach your stimulation limit if you try and combine stronger stimuli. Take for example, listening to audiobooks on a complex subject, and playing an very difficult videogame.
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