Frolic & Detour
01/30/18
7 Bad Habits Holding Good People Back Already in 2018
Don't fall back into your old patterns this year. Toxic habits and behaviors always try to sneak back in when you're doing better. Stay focused. Remind yourself that a gradual, consistent change in bad habits leads to a good change in life.
Here are seven specific bad habits that we need to be mindful of avoiding this year:
1. Mulling over past hardships – You’ll never see the great things ahead of you if you keep looking at the bad things behind you. You are exactly where you need to be to reach your goals. Everything you’ve been through was preparation for where you are right now and where you can be tomorrow.
2. Holding on to things you need to let go of – Letting go doesn’t mean giving up, but rather accepting that there are things in your life that should
not be. Sometimes letting go is what makes us stronger, happier and more successful in the long run.
3. Letting one dark cloud cover the entire sky – Take a deep breath. It’s just a bad moment, or a bad day, not a bad life. Everyone has troubles. Everyone makes mistakes. The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
4. Spending time with people who make you unhappy – People can be cruel, and sometimes they will be. People can hurt you and break your heart, and sometimes they will. But only YOU can allow them to continuously hurt you. Value yourself enough to choose to spend time with people who treat you the way you treat them. Know your worth. Know when you have had enough. And move on from the people who keep chipping away at your happiness.
5. Not making time for those who matter most – Too often we don’t realize what we have until it’s gone. Appreciate what you have, who loves you and who cares for you. You’ll never know how much they mean to you until the day they are no longer beside you.
6. Discrediting yourself for everything you aren’t – STOP discrediting yourself for everything you aren’t. START giving yourself credit for everything that you are.
7. Giving up who YOU are – Remove yourself from any situation that requires you to give up any one of these three things: 1) Who you are. 2) What you stand for. 3) The goals you aspire to achieve.
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Here are seven specific bad habits that we need to be mindful of avoiding this year:
1. Mulling over past hardships – You’ll never see the great things ahead of you if you keep looking at the bad things behind you. You are exactly where you need to be to reach your goals. Everything you’ve been through was preparation for where you are right now and where you can be tomorrow.
2. Holding on to things you need to let go of – Letting go doesn’t mean giving up, but rather accepting that there are things in your life that should
not be. Sometimes letting go is what makes us stronger, happier and more successful in the long run.3. Letting one dark cloud cover the entire sky – Take a deep breath. It’s just a bad moment, or a bad day, not a bad life. Everyone has troubles. Everyone makes mistakes. The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
4. Spending time with people who make you unhappy – People can be cruel, and sometimes they will be. People can hurt you and break your heart, and sometimes they will. But only YOU can allow them to continuously hurt you. Value yourself enough to choose to spend time with people who treat you the way you treat them. Know your worth. Know when you have had enough. And move on from the people who keep chipping away at your happiness.
5. Not making time for those who matter most – Too often we don’t realize what we have until it’s gone. Appreciate what you have, who loves you and who cares for you. You’ll never know how much they mean to you until the day they are no longer beside you.
6. Discrediting yourself for everything you aren’t – STOP discrediting yourself for everything you aren’t. START giving yourself credit for everything that you are.
7. Giving up who YOU are – Remove yourself from any situation that requires you to give up any one of these three things: 1) Who you are. 2) What you stand for. 3) The goals you aspire to achieve.