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22 Things That Are Stopping You From Living Your Best Freaking Life (With No Explanation)

22 Things That Are Stopping You From Living Your Best Freaking Life (With No Explanation)

22 Things That Are Stopping You From Living Your Best Freaking Life (With No Explanation)

You might be waiting for your big break while 22 small habits quietly decide how your life turns out.

You might be waiting for your big break while 22 small habits quietly decide how your life turns out.

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Here are 22 things that could be stopping you from living your best freaking life:

  1. Avoiding experiences because of fear of the unknown

  2. People pleasing

  3. People pleasing (again), because it has killed more dreams than one can imagine, so it deserves to be mentioned twice

  4. Over-explaining yourself to people who don’t understand your path

  5. Brooding over past mistakes instead of creating a better future

  6. Your phone

  7. Lack of goals

  8. A victim mentality: believing the world is against you

  9. Forcing yourself to fit into spaces you’ve outgrown

  10. Escaping real effort by doing things that keep you busy rather than doing the hard things

  11. Lack of focus on a single goal

  12. Following your feelings blindly rather than your plans

  13. Giving up too quickly

  14. Not giving your 1000% (Half-assing it)

  15. Not reading enough books

  16. Centering your life around others, especially your partner

  17. Not investing money and time in yourself (skill building)

  18. Not spending money on getting help so you have more time to work on your own things

  19. Unhealthy food

  20. Lack of good quality sleep

  21. Shitty friends (make better, high-quality ones)

  22. Not willing to embarrass yourself enough

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