When we wake up in the morning, there is not really a universal thing that we should do right after. We can brush our teeth, eat breakfast, check our phones, play video games, sleep again, etc., which makes it different for each person. But interestingly enough, when we find ourselves in the same situation of waking up, we tend to do what we did the previous day, and then it just keeps going on and on. These are what we call “habits”.
Usually, we enforce habits in our daily lives, without us even realizing, because when we do these things habitually, it feels right for us. Having to do them on a daily basis allows us to have a more concrete, clearer picture of how we want to lead ourselves up until the very last second of the day.
However, what feels right does not always equate to what is right. A lot of these bad habits go unnoticed– or blindly forgiven– because (1) we’re already used to these habits, and (2) it’s tedious to switch to new ones. Fret not, as there are things that we can do to slowly but surely ensure better habits moving forward with the ACES method!
We’ll always find ourselves surrounded by people who might or might not be practicing the same habits as ours. But at the end of the day, it’s really about our own habits that we should be mostly concerned with and we have full responsibility in maintaining those that are beneficial to our overall being and to other people’s as well.