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Monday, November 10, 2014

22 Habits of Unhappy People


 This pop-up came across my phone this weekend… I think it is so true.  I have notice that as the world whirl faster, people get more dizzy. 

22 Habits of Unhappy People

1.       Chronic complaining.  Gossips about everyone, complaining about everything… have you realize that complaining actually doesn’t relieve your pent up stress?  It makes you look for reason to complain more.

2.       Retail Therapy.  Focused on buying and consuming.  The richer we get, the more impersonal we get and the more money we throw around at people.  Instead, we need to enjoy nature, face to face time and personal touch, and we need to be reminded that awesome nature and miracles still happen all around us daily.  And the busier we get, the more we miss.

3.       Binge Drinking.  I don’t think alcohol itself is bad, but if alcohol is your “reward” or your way of dealing with life’s tough times… it is a problem.

4.       Worrying about the future.  You are not in control, God is.  Let it go…

5.       Waiting for the future.  Don’t just sit there and only pray… get up and do something.

6.       Lack of hobbies. 

7.       Eating poorly.

8.       Talking poorly to others.  I think this reflect a lack of, or emptied, inner resources.

9.       Holding grudges.  Lack the ability to forgive.  You don’t have to forget, but forgive is vital to your own emotional health.  It is impossible to forgive without a true love to our God, who is the model of forgiveness.

10.   Stop learning.  Learning requires all senses, all of our mind and heart.  Once we turn off our mind and heart, we die.

11.   Not following through.  This builds trust.  This reflects your integrity and trustworthiness. 

12.   Hating your job or school (current responsibilities).  This reflects your ethics.

13.   Loneliness (how you choose to socialize).  This shows your trust for others and value in human connection.

14.   Letting negative thoughts enter your mind.  Negative thoughts always enter my mind, million times a minute.  Those who said they can purge those thoughts are not telling the truth, should not be trusted.  Even those who meditate as a discipline will tell you it is impossible to have completely pure thoughts or no thoughts.  It is what we do with those thoughts that makes a difference.

15.   Jump to conclusions:  2 ways of how this presents itself: 1. fortune telling (automatically assume poor outcome for yourself when a situation arise) and, 2. mind reading (automatically assume others are negatively reacting to you or something you have done when there is no definite evidence.  Make yourself the victim and result in unfounded resentments toward imaginary reactions).

16.   Magnification, blow things out of proportion.

17.   Minimization, telling yourself when real problems are not a big deal, sweep your problems under a rug.

18.   Self-labeling, negative self-talk does really affect your psyche.  Try tell yourself something positive every time you are faced with a negative thought… see what happens.

19.   Not having a goal or setting unrealistic and unobtainable goals.  Successful people are always setting and accomplishing goals.

20.   Worrying what other’s think.  Yeah, this is hard…

21.   Let strangers affect your mood.  There are lots of pissed off people out there who spend all their energy to drag other people to their level.  When someone does something unkind to you, don’t let them sap your energy.  Let me tell you a secret, people who are unkind to other… that is their profession!  It is their life’s worth to make others miserable…  Just smile, behave positively, and let their unkindness bounce off of you. 

22.   Wanting more money.  Illusion is that more money will solve your problem.  Look around you, how many people you know are working their life away to amass wealth?  What do you think is going to happen to all their money with the currently economy or after they die?  What do you think their kids will do with all the rich inheritance they get?  Will it make them better people or treat others better or to benefit society?

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