What are habits? Our habits define us, our habits keep us going. Habits fail to make us happy when we start expecting too much from ourselves. Leaving old habits needs courage and forming new ones needs self belief. Forming healthy habits is not a mean task. The reason is that we grow in a certain way with certain beliefs. Our minds are conditioned in a particular way. To be able to break that or add something new requires efforts.

The other problem with forming healthy habits is that we want to change too much too soon. We all know that new year resolutions are highly overrated. Yet, we take resolutions and more often than not, we fail in achieving them. Ever thought why? With age comes impatience. Inabilities or should we say incompetencies are not welcomed.

We get swayed by the habit of instant gratification. We want results immediately. When we form new habits, we want to see the impact. Imagine you’ve never read a book in your life and banging on some resolution you expect yourself to start reading hefty novels. That’s too much to ask yourself.

Forming healthy habits is all about knowing the WHY behind the idea of creating that habit in the first place. It is only when the purpose is clear that we will be able to reason out and work towards the goal. In the absence of a solid why, the motivation of achieving often goes missing.

Habits like getting up on time, eating healthy, losing weight come with time. Let us give our mind some time to process the change that we are expecting. If we gave that much time to the old habits to become a part of us, the new ones too need time to adjust with us.