Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa

It's how do I learn to moderate?

We're going to be talking about that.

Screen time in bed specifically.

Smoking.

Excessive drinking.

poor eating habits such as too much sugar or snacks really late at night or snacks in the middle of the night or too much fast food etc etc i'm not drinking enough water things like that sitting for too long you find that hours and hours and hours have gone by and you can't snap out of this you know once i sit down and kind of hear um hitting the snooze button or going to bed too late and just basically not getting enough sleep overall being late

sitting in bed for too long.

I'm guessing when you wake up in the morning is what they're referring to.

And nail biting was another really big one.

Okay.

Now, one thing I have to cover before I talk about how you can eliminate all these bad habits is the difference between a bad habit and an addiction, because this episode is not about addiction.

Now I have a

done facts in the past about addictive behaviors and phone addictions and things like that so if you just look up in the search bar if you go into my podcast wherever you listen to your podcasts and enter in the search bar addiction you might find things that are more relevant to specific addictions but we are talking about habits and this is the difference now even though breaking a habit is not easy breaking an addiction is a lot harder than breaking a bad habit okay

Bad habits are repetitive, normally unconscious behaviors like phone checking, nail biting, all of that.

So it's controllable with willpower.

That's the difference between a bad habit and an addiction.

So it's where you say, okay, if I'm really aware of this and I really say, okay, no, I need to not do that thing.

You are able to not do it.

It's just a habit that you kind of fall into, but it's not like you have no control.

You do have control.