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“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.”
Lao Tzu
One destructive habit is to constantly compare your life and yourself to other people and their lives. You compare cars, houses, jobs, shoes, money, relationships, social popularity and so on. And at the end of the day you create a lot of negative feelings within. And perhaps also outside of yourself.
But how can you stop doing it? Or at least get control of it and use it in a better way? Well, here are five tips that have helped me.
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“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice”
Wayne Dyer
“For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use being anything else”
Winston Churchill
If you are reading this then there is good chance that you agree with me that positivity is pretty awesome. But it is not always easy to adopt a more positive attitude and there are some pitfalls. So today I’d like to share a few mistakes that I have made in this area and that I think are fairly common.
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”Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”
Benjamin Franklin
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
Elbert Hubbard
“If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn’t ask me, I’d still have to say it.”
George F. Burns
Sometime during the spring, when I first heard about using fasting from time to time to lose fat I thought it sounded a bit odd.
But then I thought about how people in all kinds of religions have been fasting for thousands of years.
I read a bit about it online and it seemed to be a pretty popular topic on various fitness blogs. Craig Ballantyne of Turbulence Training – the program I use every week and that helped me to lose 26 pounds – is a fan for example. So I got curious.
