50 Ways to waste a life

[dreamyxo]

If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never get it.  If you don’t ask the right questions, you’ll always get the wrong answers.  If you don’t take a step forward, you’re always going to be in the same place.  Life is a journey full of choices.  Here are 50 wasteful choices to avoid.

    Spend time regretting the past and feeling sorry for yourself.

    Complain about problems and do nothing to solve them.

    Follow the path of least resistance and quit when the going gets tough.

    Ignore your passion and follow the money.

    Setup your lifestyle so it’s dependant on your next paycheck.

    Spend more than you earn and rack up lots of financial debt.

    Try to control everything and then worry about the things you can’t control.

    Focus on what you don’t want to happen.

    Fear the things you don’t fully understand.

    Let everyone else make decisions for you.  Don’t decide on anything, ever.

    Let small issues snowball into big problems.

    Be jealous of everyone else.

    Hold onto anger.  Never forgive anyone.

    Always be right.  Never let anyone be more right than you.

    Seek external validation before you consider yourself good enough.

    Make sure everything you do impresses someone else.

    Lie to yourself and those around you and put up with others who lie to you.

    Keep doing the same thing over and over again until the day you die.

    Never finish what you start.

    Stay in the same place forever.  Never travel.

    Compare yourself unfavorably to those who you feel are more successful.

    Belittle yourself and hang out with other people who belittle you.

    Never learn anything new.

    Never take responsibility for your own actions.  Blame everyone around you.

    Don’t let anyone help you.

    Be suspicious.  Trust no one.

    Multitask, multitask, multitask!  Do everything at once.

    Fill every waking moment of your life with commitments.

    Don’t help others unless you have to.  Do only the things that benefit you directly.

    Think about all the things you don’t have and frown.

    Never exercise.  Only eat junk food and fried food.  Let your health rot.

    Don’t say what you mean.  Don’t mean what you say.

    Never tell anyone how you feel or what you’re thinking.

    Never say, “I’m sorry.”  Never say, “I love you.”

    Get involved in other people’s problems and make them your own.

    Always put your own needs on the back burner.

    Make others feel bad about themselves.

    Watch TV for several hours every day.

    Do lots of drugs.  Drink lots of alcohol.

    Don’t play, just work.

    Let your hobbies go.

    Let your close relationships go.

    Take everyone seriously and everything personally.

    Remember the insults, forget the compliments.

    Fail to plan.  Always wait until the last minute.

    Let it all bottle up inside.

    Always disregard other people’s opinions and suggestions.

    Dream about your future goals and never take action to achieve them.

    Fear change and resist it.

    Work hard, do your best, and then condemn yourself for not achieving perfection.


http://www.marcandangel.com/2011/08/22/50-ways-to-waste-a-life/

[debidoo]

Oh wow that was awesome and I think the list was so appropriate and true.  Some of it I wish I had thought about before now but its never too late to change your life for the better.  I really enjoyed reading the list and found each item very thought provoking.  Thanks sometimes people just need to think about destructive paths they are on and change them

[kilophkadamas]

I would like to add "Facebook", & alot of other types of social media for that matter. Use the phone, hear a voice, go out people lol.

[bigfoot951]

A lot of those could be considered personality flaws.  I like the facebook reference.  That should definitely be on the list.

[jaymz462]

I'd add "spend an hour and a half trying to qualify for a stupid survey so that you can make 55 cents - 60 cents." 

Yeah, that's been my day so far.  Sigh.

[dreamyxo]

I would like to add "Facebook", & alot of other types of social media for that matter. Use the phone, hear a voice, go out people lol.

I'd add "spend an hour and a half trying to qualify for a stupid survey so that you can make 55 cents - 60 cents."  Tongue

Yeah, that's been my day so far.  Sigh.

Lol yes a lot of things we do waste our precious time.  I found that website yesterday and found a lot of interesting info. 

[hustle_like_a_lady]

Oh wow that was awesome and I think the list was so appropriate and true.  Some of it I wish I had thought about before now but its never too late to change your life for the better.  I really enjoyed reading the list and found each item very thought provoking.  Thanks sometimes people just need to think about destructive paths they are on and change them

It's very hard for people to get past seeing the terrible things in life. We are so focused on having everything perfectly planned out on schedules, believing people are either angels or monsters (when really no one is that lucky to be extremely great), and getting what we want that the world seems dark if we get a dirt stain on our shoe!

All of these points are very accurate, and are So easy to understand. Only problem is that we forget how true these statements are/aren't. I wonder why this world is so pessemistic? Haa. That's a ginormous question!

[franlee46]

If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never get it.  If you don’t ask the right questions, you’ll always get the wrong answers.  If you don’t take a step forward, you’re always going to be in the same place.  Life is a journey full of choices.  Here are 50 wasteful choices to avoid.

    Spend time regretting the past and feeling sorry for yourself.

    Complain about problems and do nothing to solve them.

    Follow the path of least resistance and quit when the going gets tough.

    Ignore your passion and follow the money.

    Setup your lifestyle so it’s dependant on your next paycheck.

    Spend more than you earn and rack up lots of financial debt.

    Try to control everything and then worry about the things you can’t control.

    Focus on what you don’t want to happen.

    Fear the things you don’t fully understand.

    Let everyone else make decisions for you.  Don’t decide on anything, ever.

    Let small issues snowball into big problems.

    Be jealous of everyone else.

    Hold onto anger.  Never forgive anyone.

    Always be right.  Never let anyone be more right than you.

    Seek external validation before you consider yourself good enough.

    Make sure everything you do impresses someone else.

    Lie to yourself and those around you and put up with others who lie to you.

    Keep doing the same thing over and over again until the day you die.

    Never finish what you start.

    Stay in the same place forever.  Never travel.

    Compare yourself unfavorably to those who you feel are more successful.

    Belittle yourself and hang out with other people who belittle you.

    Never learn anything new.

    Never take responsibility for your own actions.  Blame everyone around you.

    Don’t let anyone help you.

    Be suspicious.  Trust no one.

    Multitask, multitask, multitask!  Do everything at once.

    Fill every waking moment of your life with commitments.

    Don’t help others unless you have to.  Do only the things that benefit you directly.

    Think about all the things you don’t have and frown.

    Never exercise.  Only eat junk food and fried food.  Let your health rot.

    Don’t say what you mean.  Don’t mean what you say.

    Never tell anyone how you feel or what you’re thinking.

    Never say, “I’m sorry.”  Never say, “I love you.”

    Get involved in other people’s problems and make them your own.

    Always put your own needs on the back burner.

    Make others feel bad about themselves.

    Watch TV for several hours every day.

    Do lots of drugs.  Drink lots of alcohol.

    Don’t play, just work.

    Let your hobbies go.

    Let your close relationships go.

    Take everyone seriously and everything personally.

    Remember the insults, forget the compliments.

    Fail to plan.  Always wait until the last minute.

    Let it all bottle up inside.

    Always disregard other people’s opinions and suggestions.

    Dream about your future goals and never take action to achieve them.

    Fear change and resist it.

    Work hard, do your best, and then condemn yourself for not achieving perfection.


http://www.marcandangel.com/2011/08/22/50-ways-to-waste-a-life/

Graet list I like it so much I have copied it and saved it for future reference for the next time when I think about all the what ifs shouldhaves couldhaves and if onlys that we all say  Great job

[j1arias]

Oh gosh! I've done almost all of these. Thanks for posting this!