15 Habits that will Ruin Your Life and Tips to Rectify Them

Below are 15 habits that if not rectified will mess your life.

1. Know what you are supposed to do and fail to do it.
2. Ignore any advice given to you.
3. Be a poor listener
4. Criticise your looks, your parents, your colleagues, your friends, your job, your parents etc.
5. Think you know it all.
6. Imagine that everybody hates you and they are out to engineer your downfall.
7. Try to please everybody.
8. Imagining that, life will better than it is now sometime in future.
9. Thinking that, others are better than you.
10. Having poor reading culture. This implies you take what others tell you.
11. Commenting on any suggestion or idea.
12. Lack of time for solitude, meditation and quietness.
13. Blaming others for your failures.
14. Being an expert in everything.
15. Expecting other people to change.

Ways to rectify the above 15 bad habits

1. Cultivate a practice of trying to change one aspect in your life at a time. Dedicate a month in each year to change one habit. E.g. Use this month to improve listening skills. Teach yourself how to listen without interrupting or thinking what to say next. Call it a month of listening.
2. Advices come in different forms. They may be from blogs like what you are reading now, from churches, from friends, from parents or even bosses and colleagues. At the end of each day, sit down with a pen and a note book, scribble all advices that you think were extended to you. Decide on which to start acting on. After acting on it, tick it.
3. See point number 1 above.
4. Learn to focus on the positive aspects only. Every person has a positive and negative side. From today, instead of looking at their shortcomings, try and look at their good habits. You will be amazed how good they are.
5. It is time to eat a humble pie and accept the obvious that, many know a lot than you do. Be a student of them instead of imagining you are the only one who knows. Be a lifetime student. There are always new things to learn.
6. Nobody is out to engineer your downfall. If you will fail, you will have done it to yourself. So look within for the cause of your failings, rectify them and enjoy success.
7. You will never please everybody. So, if someone is not pleased with you, move on. Be prepared to face rejections and disapproval. Do your best and do not expect everybody to appreciate you.
8. Life is perfect at the present moment. Nothing will change in future. You might grow older, earn more or less money, have a family, but life will always be the same. Enjoy the present moment, take full advantage of it. As they say, dance with life as if nobody is looking.
9. Nobody is better than you. Thy might know more, be taller or shorter, have more or less money but not better than you. After all, the millionaire and the sweeper will be buried side by side in the cemetery. Be yourself and cultivate your ingenuity.
10. Read and get the facts yourself. They will help you to make better decisions for your life.
11. Learn to listen without commenting.
12. Create time to meditate and reflect. 15 minutes very early in the morning can be very good for this. Learn to admire the sun set, watch the moon, walk alone in the forest, look at bird flying and watch it until it perches. Simply, create time for yourself.
13. See No. 6 above.
14. Identify one area that you are very good in. Work on it, perfect it and excel.
15. Finally, use the above tips to change yourself and you will be surprised how your life will improve. Once you change, you will see others differently. Actually you are the real problem, not the other person. Even if you think they are the problem, they will change at their volition not yours. But you can change  yourself at your willingness. If you are reading this in facebook and you like it, click on Change your T and subscribe to receive similar articles in your email inbox.

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