Yes, They can! Habits can be changed anytime, at any point in time. All you need is a lot of patience to go slow, and willpower to follow through every day.

I don’t think so. You can have personality traits that feel like they get passed on genetically which may trigger you to fall into the same habits. But habits are something that we as humans can totally control.

Habits are a result of cue->action->reward. Once your brain realises the satisfaction and the reward it gets, it just becomes automatic, isrrespective of wheter you are still getting the reward which is why all your habits, should be evaluated every now and then.

For instance, here’s a current example.

One cold morning in Office, I had an intense brainstorming assignment to take up. It was cold, so I went out for tea and started working after that. Since then, every morning it feels like I cannot start a brainy task without having tea. It doesn’t matter if I had tea before coming to the office, or had something else to drink. On weekends, I might have an important task to do, but I am at home, which is a different environment, and I don’t even remember to drink tea.

Our habits are mostly a result of the environment. Therefore, if you want to change your habit, first change the environment. That’s the fastest way to break a habit.

The most important self-improvement habits according to me are gratitude practices, upskilling and exercise. But there’s a huge scope to what habits can prove instrumental to each one as per their lifestyle and goals.

Habits become an addiction when they stop serving you and you have absolutely no control over them even when you know that they are creating more harm to you than good.

I find the habits of a self talk at night and morning to be the most productive. They help me set my intentions for the next day right and have a good day effortlessly.

Another one exercise. I am not really a gym person, so squeezing in exercise minutes in between is what I love the most.

There are a bunch of others that I find useful all my book- THE HABIT STORE

Habits are important because, they automate a major chunk of tasks you  need for succeeding at life. Having good habits means that you have more free time to do things that demand brainstorming or change. 

A good life’s built one day at a time. Habits are the way you win one day at a time.

Habits are hard to break because your system has got used to get the reward that bad habits provide you, irrespective of their adverse effects on you.

Our brains connects the dots between the cue, the environment, your behaviour an the rewards. Repeating it over an over, establishes a firm pathway. The more solid it gets, the more difficult to break it gets.

Journal Writing is good for you because, writing is the best way to express your unexpressed thoughts. When you write down your feelings, you gain a clarity. Journal writing clears the fog in the head you never knew you had, thus making you easy to make decisions or resolve those complex emotions.

Yes! Habit trackers are extremely useful. It has been my experience that when you I put a big bright tick mark on the tracker in front of the task that had been giving a tough time, it provides me with the reward, the adrenaline rush, the dopamine that we are all chasing. When it feels good, the brain wants you to keep doing it and that’s how you make habits stick.