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A negative habit is the one which takes you away from your goals. It
creates obstacles in your way. It gives you a false promise of
happiness and distracts you. Bad habits have the potential to ruin

you. It is difficult to quit a negative habit. But you have to understand
that your bad/ negative habits can bring you nothing but disrespect
and misdemeanor. You have to rid yourself of whatever is dragging
you down.

Given below is a list of positive and negative habits.

Positive habits:

To learn a new language
To go to bed early and wake up early
To pray or meditate for one hour every day
To spend at least one hour a week in community service
To exercise

Negative habits:
To spend a lot of time on social media
To not take care of your body
To smoke, to drink, and watch pornographic movies
To play video games

It is very important to determine why is a habit so important. What is
so special about a habit? It is important to develop a habit because
you will find it difficult to motivate yourself to do the same thing each
and every day. Life will be monotonous if you keep doing everything
mechanically and do not enjoy what you do. But, if you make it a
habit you will carry out the same work in a much easier way. The

same work would make you happy once you develop a habit of
doing it. You will feel as if you are missing out on something if you
don’t do it. You will not have to motivate yourself to do the work. Like
people who are habituated to take a shower every day after waking
up, would feel that their day is incomplete if they don’t take a shower.
If a person is used to going out for a walk every morning he would
feel a void if he misses it for some reasons. See, it is not mandatory

to take a shower every day, even if you take a shower every