30 things you need to stop doing to yourself
From time to time I see sad posts on my dash. It saddens me, but at the same time it comforts me to know that I'm not the only one who is struggling with life sometimes. I came across a link on a friends' facebook page and I would really like to share this with all of you.Â
Guys, be nice to people around you, but be even nicer to yourself. At last, you are the one who has to deal with yourself the rest of your life.Â
1.      Stop spending time with the wrong people. â Life is too short to spend time with people who suck the happiness out of you. If someone wants you in their life, theyâll make room for you. You shouldnât have to fight for a spot. Never, ever insist yourself to someone who continuously overlooks your worth. And remember, itâs not the people that stand by your side when youâre at your best, but the ones who stand beside you when youâre at your worst that are your true friends.
2.     Stop running from your problems. â Face them head on. No, it wonât be easy. There is no person in the world capable of flawlessly handling every punch thrown at them. We arenât supposed to be able to instantly solve problems. Thatâs not how weâre made. In fact, weâre made to get upset, sad, hurt, stumble and fall. Because thatâs the whole purpose of living â to face problems, learn, adapt, and solve them over the course of time. This is what ultimately molds us into the person we become.
3.     Stop lying to yourself. â You can lie to anyone else in the world, but you canât lie to yourself. Our lives improve only when we take chances, and the first and most difficult chance we can take is to be honest with ourselves.  .
4.     Stop putting your own needs on the back burner. â The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. Yes, help others; but help yourself too. If there was ever a moment to follow your passion and do something that matters to you, that moment is now.
5.      Stop trying to be someone youâre not. â One of the greatest challenges in life is being yourself in a world thatâs trying to make you likeeveryone else. Someone will always be prettier, someone will always be smarter, someone will always be younger, but they will never be you. Donât change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love the real you.
6.     Stop trying to hold onto the past. â You canât start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading your last one.
7.      Stop being scared to make a mistake. â Doing something and getting it wrong is at least ten times more productive than doing nothing. Every success has a trail of failures behind it, and every failure is leading towards success. You end up regretting the things you did NOT do far more than the things you did.
8.     Stop berating yourself for old mistakes. â We may love the wrong person and cry about the wrong things, but no matter how things go wrong, one thing is for sure, mistakes help us find the person and things that are right for us. We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future. Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.
9.     Stop trying to buy happiness. â Many of the things we desire are expensive. But the truth is, the things that really satisfy us are totally free â love, laughter and working on our passions.
10.  Stop exclusively looking to others for happiness. â If youâre not happy with who you are on the inside, you wonât be happy in a long-term relationship with anyone else either. You have to create stability in your own life first before you can share it with someone else. Â
11.   Stop being idle. â Donât think too much or youâll create a problem that wasnât even there in the first place. Evaluate situations and take decisive action. You cannot change what you refuse to confront. Making progress involves risk. Period! You canât make it to second base with your foot on first.
12.  Stop thinking youâre not ready. â Nobody ever feels 100% ready when an opportunity arises. Because most great opportunities in life force us to grow beyond our comfort zones, which means we wonât feel totally comfortable at first.
13.  Stop getting involved in relationships for the wrong reasons. â Relationships must be chosen wisely. Itâs better to be alone than to be in bad company. Thereâs no need to rush. If something is meant to be, it will happen â in the right time, with the right person, and for the best reason. Fall in love when youâre ready, not when youâre lonely.
14.  Stop rejecting new relationships just because old ones didnât work. â In life youâll realize that there is a purpose for everyone you meet. Some will test you, some will use you and some will teach you. But most importantly, some will bring out the best in you.
15.   Stop trying to compete against everyone else. â Donât worry about what others are doing better than you. Concentrate on beating your own records every day. Success is a battle between YOU and YOURSELF only.
16.  Stop being jealous of others. â Jealousy is the art of counting someone elseâs blessings instead of your own. Ask yourself this: âWhatâs something I have that everyone wants?â
17.   Stop complaining and feeling sorry for yourself. â Lifeâs curveballs are thrown for a reason â to shift your path in a direction that is meant for you. You may not see or understand everything the moment it happens, and it may be tough. But reflect back on those negative curveballs thrown at you in the past. Youâll often see that eventually they led you to a better place, person, state of mind, or situation. So smile! Let everyone know that today you are a lot stronger than you were yesterday, and you will be.
18.  Stop holding grudges. â Donât live your life with hate in your heart. You will end up hurting yourself more than the people you hate. Forgiveness is not saying, âWhat you did to me is okay.â It is saying, âIâm not going to let what you did to me ruin my happiness forever.â Forgiveness is the answer⊠let go, find peace, liberate yourself! And remember, forgiveness is not just for other people, itâs for you too. If you must, forgive yourself, move on and try to do better next time.
19.  Stop letting others bring you down to their level. â Refuse to lower your standards to accommodate those who refuse to raise theirs.
20. Stop wasting time explaining yourself to others. â Your friends donât need it and your enemies wonât believe it anyway. Just do what you know in your heart is right.
21.  Stop doing the same things over and over without taking a break. â The time to take a deep breath is when you donât have time for it. If you keep doing what youâre doing, youâll keep getting what youâre getting. Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly.
22. Stop overlooking the beauty of small moments. â Enjoy the little things, because one day you may look back and discover they were the big things. The best portion of your life will be the small, nameless moments you spend smiling with someone who matters to you.
23. Stop trying to make things perfect. â The real world doesnât reward perfectionists, it rewards people who get things done.
24. Stop following the path of least resistance. â Life is not easy, especially when you plan on achieving something worthwhile. Donât take the easy way out. Do something extraordinary.
25.  Stop acting like everything is fine if it isnât. â Itâs okay to fall apart for a little while. You donât always have to pretend to be strong, and there is no need to constantly prove that everything is going well. You shouldnât be concerned with what other people are thinking either â cry if you need to â itâs healthy to shed your tears. The sooner you do, the sooner you will be able to smile again.
26. Stop blaming others for your troubles. â The extent to which you can achieve your dreams depends on the extent to which you take responsibility for your life. When you blame others for what youâre going through, you deny responsibility â you give others power over that part of your life.
27.  Stop trying to be everything to everyone. â Doing so is impossible, and trying will only burn you out. But making one person smile CAN change the world. Maybe not the whole world, but their world. So narrow your focus.
28. Stop worrying so much. â Worry will not strip tomorrow of its burdens, it will strip today of its joy. One way to check if something is worth mulling over is to ask yourself this question: âWill this matter in one yearâs time? Three years? Five years?â If not, then itâs not worth worrying about.
29. Stop focusing on what you donât want to happen. â Focus on what you do want to happen. Positive thinking is at the forefront of every great success story. If you awake every morning with the thought that something wonderful will happen in your life today, and you pay close attention, youâll often find that youâre right.
30. Stop being ungrateful. â No matter how good or bad you have it, wake up each day thankful for your life. Someone somewhere else is desperately fighting for theirs. Instead of thinking about what youâre missing, try thinking about what you have that everyone else is missing.
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