Quit These 6 Habits to Change Your Life

Have you recently been struggling in your personal life? Oftentimes, shifting our daily practices can make a huge impact on our overall happiness. Working with a dedicated mentor and coach like Joanne Maloney can help you build better lifestyle habits and put you on the path to healing. In the meantime, you may want to take steps towards avoiding these behaviors in your personal life. 

Burning Out at Work

If you’ve been working long hours, day in and day out, or you simply feel unfulfilled by your job, you might be suffering from burnout. It may be time to start looking into new directions for your career. For instance, you might be more interested in running a home-based business rather than working at a traditional office job.

Striking a balance between your personal and professional life is the key to preventing burnout when you’re managing a business from home, especially if you’re a parent. It’s a good idea to hire childcare for exceptionally busy weeks, and meal prepping during the weekend can free up some of your time. You can implement a few more key strategies to achieve genuine work-life balance, like creating a quiet home office space, committing to a regular schedule, and using accounting software to save time on bookkeeping tasks. 

Rumination

If you’ve lived through a traumatic experience, you might find yourself ruminating often. When you ruminate, you replay the same negative scenarios over and over again in your head and get stuck in a repetitive thought pattern. To break these negative thought cycles, PsychCentral recommends going for a walk when you notice yourself ruminating - moving your body and getting a change of scenery can help you relax.

Avoiding Professional Support

Maybe you’ve considered reaching out for help before, especially if you’ve been living with PTSD after suffering a traumatic experience. But it can be hard to ask for support when there is such a strong stigma around discussing mental health. However, working with a counselor who specializes in PTSD can give you the necessary tools to manage your symptoms and find healing. 

Excessive Screen Time

When your mental health is suffering, it can be difficult to stay away from certain unhealthy coping mechanisms. You might spend lots of time online, and perhaps you’ve tried to tell yourself that this habit is relatively benign. But in reality, all of the hours you spend in front of a screen take you away from your real life and hold you back from getting better. To cut down on screen time, SUCCESS recommends deleting unnecessary apps that you use too often, reading physical books, and buying an alarm clock so that you don’t need your phone in your bedroom.

Toxic Friendships

You might have certain friends who encourage behaviors that don’t benefit you. When you’re around them, they ignore your needs, and hanging out with them leaves you feeling worse. It may be time to reduce the amount of time you spend with these friends. Taking a step back from friendships that don’t serve you will give you the opportunity to form healthier relationships with new people. They can encourage you to keep changing your life for the better.

Living with Clutter

Disorganization at home is often the sign of a troubled mind, especially when there’s clutter and mess. Your home is supposed to provide shelter and respite from the outside world. When everything is in disarray, it’s harder to find comfort here, and it’s easy for negativity to fill the air, both literally and figuratively. To counteract this, make a point to really clean your home top to bottom. Then develop an organizational system you can maintain to keep your home tidy in the long-term. By taking extra steps to make your home more inviting, it will be the refuge you need.

You do not have to try to change your life overnight. But if you know that you’ve been engaging in harmful behaviors, it’s never too late to start choosing differently. And with professional support, you can make strides to improve your overall quality of life.

If your life challenges are keeping you from meeting your goals, it’s time to get help. Personal, business and executive coach Joanne Maloney can teach you to reframe your perspective and your approach so that you can find the clarity and results you need to be a success. Reach out today! 

Article contributed by Emma Grace Brown


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