How To Break Bad Habits & Get Back On Track

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How do you break bad habits?

Can you even remember what it was like before March of 2020?

I had a pretty set routine. I’d get up around six. Walk the dog. Make some coffee. Take a shower. Go to work. Hit the gym for an hour, hour and a half. Come home. Have dinner. Hang out with Robin a little bit; maybe watch some TV or a movie. Go to sleep. And, do it all again the next day.

Then all of a sudden…that completely changed.

No more driving into work or going to the gym. Feeling confused and scared and helpless. Worrying about everything I touched at the grocery store, or if the virus might be on a package that just got delivered. It was crazy and I’m sure many of you had the same feelings as me.

Now, if there are two things I really know about myself it’s 1) I perform best when I am locked into a routine and 2) when that routine gets upset, bad things happen. Five terrible things started to happen to me throughout all this and I found myself falling into some bad habits. And, then I had to fight to break those bad habits I’d developed.

So what were they and what happened?

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