8 Things That You Must Give Up For Leading a Happier Lifestyle

By Julia Fernandes @appshub

There are about 8 things, which, if you give up on them, will make your life easier and you'll feel much happier, [Read: Most Important Things That Can Change Your Lifestyle]. We hold on to so many things that cause us a great deal of pain, stress and suffering and instead of letting them all go and allowing ourselves to be stress-free and happy, we cling on to them.

Your worries are over. Starting today and commit to yourself that we will give up on all those things that no longer serve us, and we will embrace change.

1. Give Up Your Need to Always be Right

There are so many of us who can't stand the idea of being wrong and want to always be right, This we do even at the risk of ending great relationships or causing a great deal of stress and pain for us and for others. Whenever you feel the 'urgent' need to jump into a fight over who is right and who is wrong, ask yourself this question from Dr. Wayne Dyer: 'Would I rather be right, or would I rather be kind?' It will hardly make any difference as your ego is really not that big?

2. Give Up Your Need for Control

Be willing to give up your need to always control everything that happens to you and around you situations, events, people. Whether they are loved ones, co-workers, or just strangers you meet on the street, just allow them to be as they are. Allow everything and everyone to be just as they happen to be and you will see how better you will feel.

3. Give Up on Blame

Give up on your need to blame others for what you have or don't have, for what you feel or don't feel. Stop giving your powers away and start taking responsibility for your life.

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4. Give Up Your Self-Defeating Talk

How many people are hurting themselves because of their negative, polluted and repetitive self-defeating mindset? Don't accept everything that your mind tells you, especially if it's negative and self-defeating. You are better than that. The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive.

5. Give Up Your Limiting Beliefs About What You Cannot Do or is Impossible

From now on, you are no longer going to allow your limiting beliefs to keep you stuck in failure. Tighten your wings and take off. A belief is not an idea held by the mind, it is an idea that holds the mind, said Elly Roselle.

6. Give Up Complaining

Give up your constant need to complain about those many things people, situations and events that make you unhappy, sad and depressed. Nobody can make you unhappy, no situation can make you sad or miserable unless you allow it to. It's not the situation that triggers those feelings in you, but how you choose to look at it. The power of positive thinking can make you successful.

7. Give Up the Luxury of Criticism

Give up the habit to criticize things, events or people that do not appeal you. We are all different but still have similarities. We all want to be happy, we need to love and be loved and we desire to be understood. We all want something, and wishes are within us.

8. Give Up Your Need to Impress Others

Stop trying to pretend something that you're not, just to impress others. It may not work this way. The moment you stop trying so hard to pretend, the moment you uncover yourself from the masks, the time you accept and acknowledge the reality within you, you will find people will be attracted towards you.

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