Mark Twain said that “habit is habit, and not to be flung(扔) out the window by anyone, but coaxed (劝诱)downstairs a step at a time.” The chances of successfully changing negative behavior
when you make gradual changes that give you time to
negative patterns for positive ones.
On any given day, countless numbers of us get out of bed and
to begin to change a given behavior “today.” Whether it be exercising more, drinking less, managing time
or some other change in a negative behavior, we start out with high
. In a short time, however, a vast majority of people fail and are soon doing
it was they thought they shouldn't be doing.
After considerable research, some researchers believe that behavior changes usually do not
if they start with the change itself.
, they believe that we must
a series of “stages” to adequately prepare ourselves for that
change. Once you have analyzed all the factors that
what you do, you must decide which behavior-change technique will work best for you.
According to the psychologist Albert Ellis, most
problems and related behaviors arise from irrational (不理性的) statements that people make to
when events in their lives are different from what they would like them to be. For example, suppose alter doing
on an exam, you say to yourself, “I can't believe I failed that easy exam, I’m so stupid.” By changing this irrational “catastrophic” self-talk into rational,
statements about what is really going on, you can increase the
that positive behaviors will occur.
Positive self-talk might be
as follows: “I really didn’t study enough for the exam. I just need to prepare for the next
.”
Such self-talk will help you to recover quickly from
and take positive steps to correct the situation. Some other technique like purposefully
or stopping negative thoughts and refusing to dwell on(沉湎于) negative images can also spare you wasted energy, time and emotional resources and move on to positive changes.
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