Mark Twain said that habit is habit, and not to be flung（扔） out the window by anyone, but

Mark Twain said that habit is habit, and not to be flung（扔） out the window by anyone, but coaxed(劝诱) downstairs a step at a timeThe chances of successfully changing negative behavior      when you make gradual changes that give you time to _   _ negative patterns for positive ones.
On any given day, countless numbers of us get out of bed and _   _ to begin to change a given behavior today. Whether it be exercising more, drinking less, managing time     or some other change in a negative behavior, we start out with high    . In a short time, however, a vast majority of people fail and are soon doing    it was they thought they shouldn't be doing.
After considerable research, some researchers believe that behavior changes usually do not      if they start with the change itself.      , they believe that we must      a series of “stages” to adequately prepare ourselves for that      change. Once you have analyzed all the factors that     what you do ,you must decide which behavior-change technique will work best for you.
According to the psychologist Albert Ellis, most     problems and related behaviors arise from irrational (不理性的) statements that people make to     when events in their lives are different from what they would like them to be. For example, suppose after doing      on an exam, you say to yourself, “I can not believe I failed that easy exam. I am so stupid.”By changing this irrational “catastrophic” self-talk into rational,    statements about what is really going on, you can increase the     that positive behaviors will occur.
Positive self-talk might be    as follows: I really didn't study enough for the exam. I just need to prepare for the next     ”.
Such self-talk will help you to recover quickly from     and take positive steps to correct the situation. Some other technique like purposefully      or stopping negative thoughts and refusing to dwell on (沉湎于) negative images can also spare you wasted energy, time and emotional resources and move on to positive changes.
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