Bad behaviour

Behavior is defined as the instruction a person undertakes his or her actions. Bad behaviors can be curbed by both positive or negative punishment. I have developed a bad behavior of back nippy which I am truly determined to finish. I have become a very plague gossiper whereby I can back bite ten populates in a day. Every clip I get a neighbor outside her premises, I constantly tell her news about the early(a) neighbors with so much exaggeration. I can non leave any rumor undiscussed.Since near of the stories of are not truthful, they end up arrival the person I have talked about. This behavior is costing me most of my friends so the reason why am seriously thinking about quitting by employing positive punishment. For a start I w indisposed begin with always keeping my self busy so as to minimize the chances of collision my neighbors. day one I get off to stay indoors for most of the day but I decent some of my neighbors on my way to the grocery store and although I restrain myself, I end up back biting ten times as usual.Day dickens am aromaing like no matter what happens am not conjectural to talk about anybody but unfortunately, my next door neighbor comes visiting. adept thing leads to another and I end up discussing sevensome of my friends. At the end of the day although I can see there is an utility I am not comfortable. Day three I nearly swear that am no longer going to be dish the dirt people, because I have already realized that my greatest weakness is universe close to anyone who is willing to listen to my fake news.Although the urge of talking ill about somebody is almost killing me, I do as much as I can to restrain myself but I end up gossiping five neighbors. Day four I have so much household chores to attend to so I spend the whole day indoors and luckily, I receive two friends only who I send off immediately after care to them so I manage to finish the day without back biting anyone. I congratulate myself at the end o f the day and see it as a day well spent. Day five I move to visit my grannies who subsist hundred miles from my home.Although I do not meet with any of my neighbors, I meet an old acquaintance whom we used to live with in the same neighborhood and eventually we gossip three of my neighbors. Day six I am feeling tired due to my yesterdays traveling so I outweart feel like seeing any neighbor and therefore I manage to finish the day without a single gossip Day seven I think I am getting used to not gossiping at all and in fact I dont feel the urge I had before I inflexible to quit this bad behavior.Although I happen to meet to meet with some of my neighbors, I happen to gossip no one (Sundel, Sundel, 2005 p 130- 137) I have a major improvement although I have not stopped completely. I think that it is just a matter of time and I quit it all together. REFERENCES Changing Behavior with Positive Reinforcement, retrieved on 3rd, November, 2008, available at http//www. fairview. org/h ealthlibrary/content/bha_behav_bha. htm Martin Sundel, Sandra Stone Sundel (2005) Behavior Change in the Human Services Behavioral and Cognitive Principles and Applications, NY, SAGE,