10 Things You Should Stop Doing To Yourself At the end of the day, when we are back to our beds, we are all by ourselves yet sometimes we are so mean to ourselves. So here are the 10 things you should top doing to yourself. 1. Postponing Your Happiness You should stop putting off your happiness for some other day in the future. Stop saying: “I will be happy when I am done with studies, I will be happy when I get married, I will be happy when this or that happens.” Just choose to be happy right here, right now regardless of what’s happening around you. Stop waiting for the perfect moment to be happy, moments are never perfect, we just choose to make them anyway. 2. Being Busy You should stop being busy. We live in an era where people mistake being busy with being productive. That’s so wrong. Busyness seems impressive to many people but it’s hurting your life. Just work smarter not harder. Do less things and get more results instead of doing many and having not much to show for what you are doing. 3.Rushing Your Life You should stop focusing on the next moment, just enjoy the now. When you’re stuck in traffic jam, don’t giraffe your neck waiting for the lights to show green, enjoy the moment. Look at Jennifer Musisi’s flower gardens, look at that street preacher and how he talks. Don’t ever be in a rush that you don’t notice sweet things happening in the now like a hot girl passing by. 4. Thinking that the most powerful thing in life is death Death is not the most powerful thing in life, LOVE is. Stop treating death like it’s something so big. Instead focus on giving out love every day, every minute with every chance you have. We are born to love regardless of how imperfect the other person is. 5.Saying YES to everything We’ve turned into a YES generation. We say YES to bad customer care in a restaurant. We say YES to a birthday party we have no interest of attending. We are saying yes to every crap. Stop saying YES to everything, sometimes, the best thing is to say NO. When you say NO to things that don’t matter, you get to say YES to the important things that matter. 6. Being Controlled By Technology Technology was meant to simplify our lives not to put us in control mode. Yet these days, I notice many people on a date with everyone scrolling away on their phones, facebooking. I see people jump up from whatever they are doing when their phone rings. You are only imprisoning yourself. The phone is their for your convenience not for other people’s convenience. It’s your phone, you have a right not to pick up. Here’s a tip, “Next time you are in the presence of a human being, ignore your phone, put it in silent.” Life is out there not on the phone. Friends are outside your home not on your Facebook account. Of your Facebook friends, how many of them can stand by you in super bad times, like when you lose someone and the burial place is somewhere so far. 7. Fearing what other people will think about you One of my best friends who taught me this was Alinda King’david There was a funny habit at Namugongo where boys dreaded the moments of going alone for buns because the girls would see them. Alinda told me, “We only live once” Will it matter on your death-bed what other people thought about you. They are also busy worried what someone else is thinking about them and we are all in a prison, why not be the one who chooses to escape from this prison and become YOU, the original, unedited authentic you. So today, if you want to eat beans in a restaurant, don’t go for meat simply because it’s the trending thing. If you have trouble handling a pizza, swallow your pride and go for a rolex. 8. Not Working On Your Dreams We spend so much time working on other people’s dreams instead of our own. You should stop doing that to yourself. Stop putting your dreams on pause, stop sacrificing your dreams for other things. Make an appointment to at least work on one of your dreams every day, take some baby steps in working on your dreams. 9. Wanting to make big changes all of a sudden Early this year, I spent a day with Professor Waswa Balunywa the principal of MUBS on his 10 acre home in Entebbe. He told me; “Son, don’t think that I did all this in one day, I began buying acre by acre way back in 1996 long-before people saw potential in this area.” When we see people who wake-up early, we think, we can choose to instal on those changes in a day and go from waking up at 9am to 4:30am. Don’t be deceived, when you go to a gym, you don’t carry 20Kg weights straight away, your muscles are not yet used, you begin with a 1kg, then a 2kg as you grow. Real permanent change comes in taking small baby steps towards your goal. So just choose to do a 1% improvement every day instead of a 30% improvement, by 5 months, you will have done a 200% improvement. 10. Doing Many Things At A Go Stop chasing many things at a go. Stop piling up many things on your daily planner. At least, learn the art of delegation. These days, I only pursue one thing and utmost two things in a day. I have learned the art of focusing and the power there within. So if you have 6 goals for the week, instead of piling them up for one day, why not let each day have its own day. Dedicate a whole day to making a dent in getting a job, connect with human resource managers online, learn how to write impressive CVs and by the end of the day, you will have great results. Stop putting lots of food on your plate, the plate will eat you up. Namaste: Feel Free to add to the list of the things you need to stop doing to yourself. Oh I forgot, stop hanging out with the negative crowd, the wrong crowd.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 13:07:16 +0000
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