Let go!

Seven habits to let go of to lead a happy life as you grow older

- Sapna Sarfare

Growing up changes our lives and personalities. You are practically a new person. It is important to age gracefully and happily. However, most of us are not able to do it thanks to our habits that we form in our young age. We don't realize that the lifestyle choices—physical, mental and emotional—that we make in our late twenties or thirties have a solid impact on our mind and body. These choices, quite often prevent us from being happy at a later age.

Aamish Dhingra, ICF—PCC CERTIFIED LIFE COACH and co-founder of Cocoweave Coaching International, Delhi, speaks on the reasons to break certain habits. "It is important to break certain habits that are negatively affecting the quality of life by influencing emotional as well as mental health. The barriers in the pathway of our success are overthinking about a certain situation, procrastination, or negative self-talk."

As a life coach, he finds these habits debilitating. "It is essential to replace the destructive mindset with constructive one and step out of the comfort zone. When you set yourself free from a limiting thought or habit, you welcome new opportunities and a better form of yourself."

Habits, they say, are hard to break. But it is the choice of an individual to cultivate good or bad habits.