Bad behaviour

Behavior is defined as the way a person undertakes his or her actions. Bad behaviors shtup be curbed by either positive or negative punishment. I substantiate developed a bad behavior of back biting which I am truly determined to finish. I have become a very nuisance gossiper whereby I can back bite ten neighbors in a day. Every duration I get a neighbor outside her premises, I always tell her news about the other neighbors with so oft exaggeration. I can not leave every rumor undiscussed.Since most of the stories of are not truthful, they closing curtain up reaching the person I have talked about. This behavior is costing me most of my fri dismisss hence the reason why am seriously thinking about quitting by employing positive punishment. For a start I will begin with always keeping my self busy so as to minimize the chances of meeting my neighbors. Day one I manage to hinderance indoors for most of the day but I meet some of my neighbors on my way to the grocery store and al though I restrain myself, I end up back biting ten times as usual.Day two am feeling like no matter what happens am not suppositional to talk about whateverbody but unfortunately, my next door neighbor comes visiting. One thing leads to another and I end up discussing seven of my friends. At the end of the day although I can see there is an improvement I am not comfortable. Day three I nearly swear that am no longer going to be gossiping people, because I have already realized that my greatest weakness is being close to anyone who is willing to heed 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 accompany to so I spend the whole day indoors and luckily, I receive two friends only who I send off immediately later on attending to them so I manage to finish the day without back biting anyone. I congratulate myself at the end of the day and see it as a day well spent. Day five I travel to visit my grannies who live 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 dont 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 beforehand I decided 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/hea lthlibrary/content/bha_behav_bha. htm Martin Sundel, Sandra Stone Sundel (2005) Behavior Change in the compassionate Services Behavioral and Cognitive Principles and Applications, NY, SAGE,