John S. Lawson - Transform Your Habit, Transform Your Life: Be the Person You Were Always Meant To Be

Transform Your Habit

Transform Your Life

Be the Person You Were ALWAYS Meant To Be

John. S. Lawson

Copyright 2017 John S. Lawson

All rights reserved.

DEDICATION

This Book Is Dedicated To All Who Wants To Break Free From The Shackles Of Ineffective Habits. Because You Deserve To Live Productively And Happily.

&

I dedicate this book as well to my two beautiful children and my loving wife who have been nothing short of being my light and joy throughout the years.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

C ongratulations on purchasing the book Transform Your Habit, Transform Your Life: Because you Deserve to Live a Better Life.

In this book, you will find tips and tricks on how to kick those bad habits and live a more fulfilling life. Bad habits are a natural thing. Everybody has to deal with them at some point in their life. Even the most powerful person in the world has a habit they want to kick. In this book, you will discover what could be causing your problems, and a way to help you move past them.

Everybody is different, so what may work for one person may not work for you. Keep this in mind as you move forward. This won't be a miracle cure, and it won't happen overnight. It will also take some work to change your habits for good. The more you put into to changing, the more of a payoff you will get. Some patterns are caused by severe disorders such as OCD or PTSD. If you feel this could be you, then please confer with a medical professional.

Its a fact that at some point in your life there will be something you want to change about yourself. It may be that you want to lose a couple of pounds, or cut back on your drinking, or improve your sleeping habits. It wont be easy either. Nothing in life ever is. Im here to help you. I will guide you step by step through the process.

Throughout this book, you will learn what causes your bad habits, why it's so hard to kick them, and how to overcome them. It may seem impossible to change. You have a lot on your plate. You work, you have children to take care of, you go to school, what have you. Its stressful. I know, but youre not alone. There are simple adjustments that can be made throughout your hectic day, and before you know it things will start to change.

CHAPTER ONE

A WARNING

Everybody is different, making every habit different. That means that all these tips coming up are subjective. It's not something that will work for everybody. Another thing you need to be aware of is that your habit could be something more. I'm going to go over this possible problem quickly. Keep in mind this is not to cure or diagnose you with anything. If you think you may have a psychological disorder, as opposed to a bad habit, please seek medical attention.

For your information, a habit is defined as a settled or regular tendency or practice; especially one that is hard to give up.

OCD, obsessive compulsive disorder, can be confused as a habit. OCD can fall into four main categories;

• checking
• contamination/mental contamination
• hoarding
• ruminations/intrusive thoughts

OCD is diagnosed by when obsessions and compulsions:

• Consume excessive amounts of time
• Causes significant distress
• Interferes with daily functions

Your habit, itself, could be OCD, or your inability to break the habit, could be caused by OCD. An example of OCD being the habit would be hoarding. An example of OCD interfering your ability to break a habit would be intrusive thoughts. Now, when breaking a habit you will have intrusive thoughts, but they should just come and go. If your intrusive thoughts are constant and interfere with your life, then OCD could be a factor.

Other psychological disorders that could be confused with a habit are, eating disorders. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are common eating disorders where people end up starving themselves or binging and purging. A lesser known eating disorder, which is the one most likely to be confused as a habit, is a binge-eating disorder.

With binge-eating disorder, people lose control of their eating habits. Unlike with bulimia nervosa, periods of binges are not followed by purging, which is why most people with binge-eating disorder are overweight. It is the top eating disorder in the US. Symptoms of binge-eating disorder are:

• Eating an unusually large amount of food in a specific amount of time
• Eating even when youre full or not hungry
• Eating fast during binge episodes
• Eating until you are uncomfortably full
• Eating alone or in secret to avoid embarrassment
• Feeling distressed, ashamed, or guilty when not eating
• Frequent dieting, possibly without weight loss

Chances are everybody can say that they have experienced one or more of these symptoms. For example, most holidays' people will over eat. That does not mean you have binge-eating disorder. Keep in mind disorders interrupt your everyday life, and happen constantly. If you just overeat when watching TV, or when you're bored, then you probably don't have a disorder. If you are concerned that you might, then please seek medical advice.

Make sure that if you think you have a disorder to see your doctor make sure. It's better to believe you have a disease than go around with an undiagnosed disorder. I want to make sure that you can live the life you deserve and making sure that your habit isn't something more serious is important.

CHAPTER TWO

A HISTORY OF HABITS

Imagine this; your alarm goes off. You slide out of bed and slump your way to the bathroom. You do your business and then hop in the shower. Once finished you brush your teeth before you get dressed. Once dressed you head to the kitchen to have your coffee and breakfast. Now, what just happened? You were on complete autopilot. You are so used to doing the same thing every morning you don't have to think about it. That is what a habit is.

Human beings are creatures of habit. We get into a routine, and we stick to it. Then it becomes a struggle to change.

Chances are your habits are caused by stress or boredom. You start doing things to distract your brain from the stress or boredom, giving you brain a brief moment of utopia.