1. Watching TV - If you think all you’re doing by watching TV is waste time you are turning away from the bigger problem. You can waste time in a lot of different ways but watching TV is by far the worst.
The reason for it are the advertisments and shows they show. In every advertisment you are lead to belive that you are worth less until you buy their product and every TV show shows you people being happy, fun and getting everything they want, desiring you to be like them. This leads you to feel and think of yourself as anything but perfect and good enough because you always compare to those people that you can never be like!
Instead read a book, go outside, entertain yourself with friends, go on a date, play a sport, or waste time just sitting in your room alone. Throw out this box that gets you more interested in lives other than your own and makes your own life never seem good enough.
2. Pleasing everybody - When my parents first started to argue and to fight I was always trying to protect my younger brothers. I was both the person my parents came to talk to as well as my brothers and I tried to make make the fighting between my parents smaller whilst keeping my brothers out of the picture, leaving me to try to please everyone.
It was only a decade later I realized that I wasn’t helping anyone, was only hurting myself and I had a lot to deal with later in my life because of it. Pleasing others is just adding more weight to your own cart, which is heavy enough as it is.
Instead please the people you want to please without ever considering whether you should or have to. Give only because you chose to.
3. Abusing your body - Alcohol, tabacco, sugars, and drugs are all bad for you, but you know that already. This is nothing new yet we continue to abuse our body for the instant pleasures those substances give.
All the endorphins and hormones that give us that next fix and let us forget about the negativity of the world for just a second at the cost of our own health. Keep telling yourself it is not that bad, ignore everyone telling you to be healthier and live a short life of simple pleasures rather than a long one of amazing pleasures.
Instead just reduce your consumption for the special times. Keep your consumption low and controlled so it enables you to live life by your means, not by your bodies means later on.
4. Brushing off responsibility - It is a thousand times easier to brush off all the responsibility and give it to others. That is why you listen to your parents, why you trust your teachers every word, and why your friends always seem smarter than you.
Listen to their advice, live the life they give you, and watch everyone run away with their tail between their legs when things go bad. As long as things turn out well they told you to do it that way and want to be rewarded. But as soon as things turn bad it is your fault and you should have known better.
Take responsibility for your own life! Every one of your actions has a consequence, good or bad, and you are responsible for it. No one can die for you at the end. If you have to take responsibility for your death then you might as well take it for life as well!
5. Reacting instead of Acting - React to your friends invitations, react to your parents pleas, react to the world around you and do as your told.
That is how most people would like you: a reactive machine that doesn’t do anything on its own. Keep reacting and hoping that other people will act on your desires for you and you will do barely more than existing.
But act and you will live! Find out what you want and then ACT on it. No one knows what you want, and if you keep waiting for an opportunity to magically appear or luck to strike you in the face you will gambling with your entire life. Instead take the cards in your own hand and deal yourself the hand you want!
Stop being less than you can be and reach your goals. Send me a message saying "Coaching" and get a chance to work 1 to 1 with me. Lukas Schwekendiek
P.S> All credit to the author of the answer Mr. Lukas Schwekendiek
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