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The Guide To Healthy Post-Breakup Habits That Stick
Learn the science of habit formation and destruction, as well as building and maintaining healthy habits and breaking unhealthy ones.
Due to our devastation post-breakup, it’s remarkably easy to adopt a truckload of unhealthy habits: eating junk food, getting wasted, watching funny cat videos instead of working out, going on expensive shopping sprees, biting our fingernails, jerking off too much, and so on and so forth.
It’s during these times that many people start thinking they need some radical transformation. They want to become this smarter, healthier, more resilient, and magnetic person overnight. They flirt with the idea of flipping a switch and changing everything about themselves.
Turns out, this is impossible. Trying to change literally every facet of your life and identity all at once will only lead you to eventually lose motivation and fail. It’s too much too soon, and it’s a trap.
More importantly, you don’t even need a sudden transformation. All you really need are better habits. People too often overestimate the importance of one defining moment and underestimate the value of making small improvements on a daily basis.
