Habits play a very crucial part in life. The personality of a person is determined by his habits. Good habits make a person calm, genial and great while bad habits deform and disfigure a personality. Everyone is responsive of the importance of habits and many wish to change their bad habits in order to improve their character, traits and personality.

Here a the top 7 of the most destructive habits that people have:

1. Sleep Deprivation
Sleep deprivation is a general lack of the necessary amount of sleep.
Sleep deprivation can have serious effects on your health in the form of physical and mental impairments. Inadequate rest impairs our ability to think, to handle stress, to maintain a healthy immune system and to moderate our emotions. Sleep allows our brain to rest. Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of brain cells. In fact, sleep is so important to our overall health that total sleep deprivation has been proven to be fatal: lab rats denied the chance to rest die within two to three weeks.

2. Lacking in stimulating thoughts
The brain is a muscle and it can atrophy if you do not take good care of it. Thinking is the greatest way to train our brain. Lacking in brain stimulation thoughts may cause brain shrinkage.

3. Negative Thinking
Negative thinking is counterproductive, self-defeating thinking that makes you feel worse, see things in a worse light, and act in ways that often interfere with goals. The more you think negatively, the worse you feel. Changing habits of negative thinking helps a great deal in changing emotions and improving personal problems.

4. Waste the time
One of the most frustrating paradigms in the modern workplace is that “staying busy” is often substituted for “staying efficient.” You can stay busy for eight hours and get very little work done (we all have known coworkers like this) while others can stay efficient and get 2-3 times as much done in half the time. The key of productivity is about having goals, making plans, and having diligence. And the only way to achieve any of these productivity methods is by having effective habits.

5. Give Up Easily
Our society has largely evolved into a instant gratification kind of world. We expect our food instantly, we do not like to wait in line and we certainly do not want to have to wait to have what we want. The instant gratification habit has instilled in us a sense of ease. We find easy credit, we look for easy work and we want easy ways to have fun. The cost of buying into the notion of instant gratification is that we do not stick to things until completion. As soon as things start to get hard or obstacles presents themselves we quit. By quitting too easily, we never have a chance of gaining mastery over anything and therefore never truly reaping anything of value for ourselves.

6. Excessive Pride
Pride is a lofty self-respect totally apart from reality. It is high esteem of oneself from some imagined or real superiority. Pride destroys capacity for life, love, and happiness.
The arrogant person rejects authority. Pride reproduces itself in jealousy, bitterness, vindictiveness, implacability, revenge motivation and function, inordinate ambition and competition, gossip, slander, maligning, and judging. Pride transformed into self-righteousness produces legalism.

7. Dependence
Drug and alcohol dependence can be described as a compulsion to continue drinking or taking a drug in order to feel good or to avoid feeling bad. When this is done to avoid physical discomfort or withdrawal, it is known as physical dependence; when it has a psychological aspect (the need for stimulation or pleasure, or to escape reality) then it is known as psychological dependence.
- Alcohol Dependence. The signs of alcohol dependence can include frequent hangovers, feelings of guilt or defensiveness about drinking, drinking alone or in secret, and continued drinking despite negative impacts on your health, relationships, finances, or livelihood.
- Smoking dependence. Immediate effects of smoking:initial stimulation, then reduction in brain and nervous system activity; enhanced alertness and concentration; mild euphoria; feelings of relaxation; increased blood pressure and heart rate; decreased blood flow to body extremities like the fingers and toes; dizziness, nausea, watery eyes and acid in the stomach; and decreased appetite, taste and smell.
Long-term effects It is estimated that more than 140,000 hospital episodes and 19,000 deaths in Australia can be attributed to tobacco use every year. The principal diagnoses are cancer, heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Drugs dependence. A range of factors may influence dependence on both legal and illicit drugs including; psychological, biological, social and environmental factors. Dependency on drugs is frequently accompanied by other psychological conditions including depression and anxiety. Drug use can also result in psychosis. Although drug use can sometimes be the sole cause of psychosis, in other cases they can trigger psychotic condition such as schizophrenia in someone who is vulnerable to it. Some people also take drugs as a way of coping with a developing psychotic condition, but these drugs can make the symptoms worse and the disorder difficult to diagnose.

Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People : Powerful Lessons in Personal Change EDITON: 1st Edition 1989 Excellent Condition Used

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