Unfortunately we complicate our lives to the point of being
unable to recognize happiness when it appears before our eyes.
Here are ten things
you’ll need to give up in change for your happiness.
1. Give up caring what other people think of you.
I know it seems counter intuitive as we humans are primal
pack animals that don’t want to be cast from the village; but spending time
worrying what others think, is a waste of energy. You’ll never please everyone
and it’s none of your business what others think of you.
2. Give
up trying to please everyone.
Unless you’re living life to the beat of your own drum, your
tribe won’t be able to find you. Be the best version of YOU you can be, and
you’ll naturally attract in the people that are supposed to surround you.
3. Give
up participating in gossip.
100% of the time, those sharing gossip with you will gossip
about you. Believing gossip is like gambling everything on a horse sight
unseen. It’s naive.
4. Quit
worrying.
Where thoughts go,
energy flows. Worry is investing time and energy in something you don’t want to
have happen. Learn to let go and trust.
5. Let
go of insecurity.
When we take ourselves too seriously, we think everyone else
does too. There is one version of you on the planet. Be it, own it and quit
worrying about it. No one really cares or watches you that closely.
6. Stop
taking everything personally.
Truth is, most people are too consumed with their own life
to really consider what you’re doing. As my first boss said so well: “the world
doesn’t revolve around you. Most people’s reactions have nothing to do with
you, so let it go.”
7. Give
up the past.
We’ve all been hurt, we all had parents that made mistakes
and we’ve all been through hell. You didn’t listen to your parents when you
were younger, so why are you still listening to their voices in your head right
now? Every experience in life has taught you something or made you stronger.
8. Give
up spending money on what you don’t need in effort to buy happiness.
Living simply allows the space for life to flow. We
complicate our lives by spending too much money and filling our home with “things.”
Less is truly more.
9. Give
up anger.
Anger burns a hole in the hand of the person still holding
on to it. Move it out once and for all.
10.
Give up control.
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