Usually I write or record videos on how to grow, expand and hopefully, make life just a little bit better and happier.
Today I thought I’d present to you an alternative way of being.
David Jeremiah, in his book titled Turning Toward Joy, shared his top 10 list of ways to guarantee unhappiness.
Let’s see what he suggests…
- Make little things bother you; don’t just let them, make them.
- Lose your perspective of things, and keep it lost. Don’t put first things first.
- Get yourself something great to worry about – something which you can’t do anything about, except worry.
- Be a perfectionist: Condemn yourself and others for not achieving perfection.
- Be right, always right, perfectly right all the time. Be the only one who is right and be rigid about your rightness.
- Don’t trust or believe people, or accept them at anything but their worst and weakest. Be suspicious. Be convinced of their ulterior motives.
- Always compare yourself unfavourably to others, which is the guarantee of instant misery.
- Take personally, with a chip on your shoulder, everything that happens to you that you don’t like.
- Don’t give yourself wholeheartedly or enthusiastically to anyone or to anything.
- Make unhappiness the aim of your life, instead of bracing for life’s barbs through a “bitter with the sweet” philosophy.
How many of these usually appear on your ‘to do’ list?
