10 Things You Do Not Need To Be Doing
10. Do not try to buy happiness: we live in America, the land of the GREED, do not give power to a piece of cloth, leather or metal, it may be cliche, but it couldn't be more true when they say "the best things in life are free." Once you separate out the type of emotion you feel from buying something expensive to the type you feel from receiving something free, you'll realize all the money in the world couldn't buy happiness (NO MATTER WHERE YOU'RE SHOPPING). Do not allow money to substitute for dignity because if you do then you'll find that you can only afford a piece of gum.
9. Do not lie to yourself: you may have the entire world fooled as complete fools, but you can not escape your own mind. Self-progress only starts once we are willing to be honest with ourselves.
8. Do not try to be a superhero (to everyone): we all want to save the ones we care about, but you may have to accept that trying to do so may only end up with a burnt out you and result with only a partial success rate. Narrow your focus, you can't be everything to everyone.
7. Do not forget to count your blessings: today may be good, tomorrow may be bad and vice versa for the rest of your life, but the mere fact that "the rest of your life" is a thought to be had, is enough to be grateful for all you have. Someone out there is waking up and fighting with imaginary skills to be able to envision a day where they can go back to thinking they have the "rest of their lives."
6. Do not allow other's gravitational pull to lower you: just because someone refuses to advance in their own life does not mean that you have to lower your standards to accommodate their lack of enthusiasm for a better life. Keep floating upward and remember there are foot prints on the moon.
5. Do not convince yourself that you are not ready: you will never wake up with the feeling that you are a hundred and ten percent ready for something. Self-growth comes from being put in situations that force you to get ready. Engineers never woke up one day and said they were ready to formulate high rises, somewhere along the path they were forced to take pre-algebra that lead to algebra that lead to geometry and so on and so forth. Get out of that comfort zone and note, you are far more ready that you realize. Remember, will-power is like a muscle the more you use it the stronger it gets.
4. Do not get involved in relationships for the wrong reasons: it may take days in coming or even months and years, but do not allow a "time lapse" to be the reason why you enter into a relationship with someone. You are far more better off in the company of just yourself than bad company. Society will have us thinking we need to conform to many expectations of other society members, but the most self-damaging action is to allow this (wrong) reason be the (only) reason you enter into a relationship. Be it a career-related relationship, friendship type or most commonly a romantic one.
3. Do not hold on to the past: no matter how good or how bad, it is only self-sabotage if you do this. The idea of life is to move forward and you can not write the next chapter of your life if you are stuck re-reading the last one.
2. Do not spend time with the wrong people: no matter how blindsided you may be, there is always a tiny person inside of you yelling at you when you are surrounding yourself with people who you shouldn't be. The beauty of life is that we are blessed with making choices. Time flies and the last thing you need is to be spending it with people who don't make you happy or encourage you to be better.
1. Do not run from your problems: no one is saying it's easy, nor is it fun or anything else that would encourage you not to run, but sometimes you have to do what's not fun to end up having some fun. It won't be the time of your life and you won't be able to solve them over night, but the more you look your problems in the eye, the more closer you'll get to having days of fun.
