Almost 50 percent of everything you do are habits.
Starting from the time you wake up to how you brush your teeth to what you eat on breakfast.
We humans, by our nature, are creatures of habits because your brain always looks for
shortcuts, and then these shortcuts slowly turn into habits.
Which means if you develop bad habits, your life will slowly turn into a miserable, mediocre
life.
And over time, that will seem normal to you, but that also means that if you can develop
the right habits, you can turn your life into a more productive, successful, and happier
life.
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Today we are going to talk about the habits that are literally destroying your life and
making you miserable.
You can't be building wealth while your life is mediocre.
So if you want to make this year far better than last year, get rid of these 5 habits
that are stopping you from getting rich and achieve your goals.
Not thinking long term.
When we see a successful person, we tend to think that they might be smart, talented,
or just pure genius.
Of course, that's true to a certain extend.
However, multiple studies have shown that the number one reason that sets successful
people apart from the rest is the ability to delay gratification.
It is when you resist the temptation of an immediate smaller reward in order to receive
a more substantial reward later.
It's when you stop scrolling your Instagram feed and get back to work.
Or stop watching YouTube and start getting ready for tomorrow's test or hit the gym at
night instead of going to a party.
The research shows that being able to delay gratification is a great habit.
It leads to academic success, physical health, psychological health, and social competence.
That doesn't mean you should completely ignore the present and just focus on the future.
Being able to live in the present all the time is another great habit that you should
be building if you want to be successful in the traditional meaning.
Take successful athletes, for example, on the pitch.
They play around with the ball as if they have been born to become athletes; however,
behind the scenes, they probably have been training for the last 10 or 15 years just
to perform that trick better than everyone else on the pitch, so to become a successful
athlete, you cant be expecting to be rewarded right after each training session, you have
to understand that you might need to work super hard for years to achieve any meaningful
results.
2.
Arguing with dumb people
We all have been into many arguments, and many of them didn't end well.
You either lose the argument or lose the relationship if you end up winning.
You are basically losing something anyway.
First of all, everyone can have an opinion, and everyone is free to stick to what they
believe, and wasting hours and hours to convince someone who doesn't want to be convinced is
a waste of time, especially when that person believes with his heart and soul that he has
the only truth.
There is no way he could possibly be wrong.
Mark Twain once said: "Never argue with stupid people; they will drag you down to their level
and then beat you with experience."
This is one of the most important things I have ever learned.
If you argue with someone about something that the other person is ignorant about but
still wants to prove that he is right, then what's the point of the argument.
In my experience, it's just better to ignore those kinds of arguments.
You don't have to waste your time and energy on those kinds of people.
Bernard Shaw once said: "I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig.
You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it."
3.
Wasting too much time on social media
Did you know that an average person uses at least 2 hours every single day browsing his
news feed on social media?
That might not sound like a big number, but it adds up to over five years over a lifetime.
That's enough time to be a world-class expert at five different things if you spend 10 thousand
hours mastering each of them.
But that's just the tip of an iceberg because when it comes to kids and teenagers, they
spend up to 8 hours of their day on this thing that's called social media.
And this number is only getting higher, and in a matter of years, you might find yourself
spending as much time on Facebook, Instagram and youtube as you spend on sleeping.
Ridiculers!
But how on earth we ended up like this?
Just last year, Facebook made over 78 billion dollars in revenue.
To put that number into perspective, that's twice bigger than the entire budget of Ukraine,
which is the largest country in Europe.
And the big chunk of that amount Facebook spends of figuring out how to make their platform
as addictive as possible.
Besides them, you have youtube, Snapchat, and other social media companies trying to
do the exact same thing!
Because the longer you stay on their platform, the more money they are going to make, it's
that simple?!
Unfortunately, they have figured out a way to manipulate us.
There is a little chemical in your brain that's known as Dopamine.
It constantly searches for a reward because Every time it gets it, it spikes and makes
you feel good.
That's why you constantly check your phone every time it buzzes.
When someone likes or comments on your picture or, God forbid, Follows you, your dopamine
surges!
And when your brain knows that it can get an easy dopamine spike, it will constantly
push you to check your Instagram even when your phone doesn't even buzzes, and that's
known as Phantom vibration syndrome.
I guess it's impossible to completely stop using social media today because you have
to somehow keep in touch with your friends, colleagues, and relatives but don't make it
a habit since it will slowly ruin your life.
4.
Sitting Regardless of who you or where you are, you
definitely sit a lot.
And that's normal in today's world.
Think about it, when you wake up, the first thing that you do is sit down and have breakfast,
then you get into your car or a bus to sit and get to your workplace, and once you are
there, you are probably going to sit for hours to do your job, and when you get back home,
you will sit again to relax and watch something.
You might not see anything wrong with that, but our bodies weren't built to sit all the
time but rather were built to move.
That's why sitting is very unhealthy.
I know the idea that sitting can be harmful seems insane at first though because sitting
is our default posture when we work, study, socialize, or travel.
However, studies after studies have proven that it's one of those things that is slowly
killing you from inside.
When you sit down, your blood flows significantly slows down, and it creates pressure and makes
it difficult for your heart to pump blood.
In fact, studies have shown that sitting more than 10 hours a day can lead you to develop
heart diseases, diabetes, or cancer.
For instance, if you stand up and move every 15 minutes, you are going to live significantly
longer than someone who would move every half an hour.
When you are sitting, you slow down your blood flow and limit the amount of oxygen getting
into your bloodstream, which eventually slows down your brain.
In other words, sitting down to focus is a bad idea, which sounds insane.
And we didn't even talk about possible back problems.
So what should you do?
Move!
5.
Comparing yourself to others Do you sometimes feel like you are falling
behind?
As if everyone is doing something important and achieve great stuff while you are not.
I mean, some people are already planning to visit Mars while you can't even find a job.
People out there are changing the world, making billions of dollars, while you can't even
figure out what you want out of life.
Even if you put aside those who are much older
than you and argue that you still got time to achieve what they have achieved, you still
can find a lot of people at your age who have achieved the level of success that you can
only dream about.
It completely destroys your self-esteem.
And that's the problem.
You don't understand that your life is yours, and it is different from any other life that
has ever existed.
You cant compare your life to anyone else, even to the people who are around you, who
are doing the exact same thing that you are doing, who are influenced by the same factors
that you're influenced.
At the end of the day, you are a completely different identity, with a different mindset,
strengths, and weakness than anyone else.
Our school system has made us think that we all should move in the same direction at the
same speed.
We all start school almost at the same age.
We move from one grade to another at the same time and then get into college.
This process has shaped our idea of life that we are all identical, with similar passion,
goals, and opportunities, and so on, when in reality, we are not.
Life doest provide you with a fixed timeline, but rather it's very unpredictable and spontaneous.
If one has achieved something at a certain age doesn't make it necessary for others to
achieve the same thing.
Some people achieve financial success at an early age, while others create a loving family
at that time.
And this is something that you have to accept.
Your life is your journey that you are going to create, and it's going to be different
from everyone else, so stop comparing yourself!
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