25 things that are not worth your time in life

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1. Beating yourself up

The only people who don’t make mistakes are dead people. Do you know why? Because dead people don’t do anything. Stop thinking of yourself as a perfect person and accept your mistakes. You will make mistakes. Your ability to rise above them is what makes you strong. Here’s a challenge for you: If you can tell us one good thing you got out of beating yourself up, we’ll buy you a round-trip ticket to Dubai.

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2. Holding grudges

People can be annoying, and you too can be annoying to some people. It is human nature to be unpredictable and unpredictable. That does not justify holding a grudge over little things. Holding a grudge is like holding onto a burning coal and expecting someone else to get burned. You are the one who gets hurt. Negative energy is not worth your time.

3. Living with hard drugs and alcohol

Why should you choose a path that no one else has taken before? It’s one of those decisions in life whose outcome you can already predict: misfortune for yourself and the people you care about. This path leads only to regret.

4. Live to impress others

Why would you spend the money you barely have buying things you don’t need just to impress people who don’t like you and don’t care about you? Life is too short to spend trying to impress people who have no interest in your life. If they aren’t impressed by what you are becoming, then that’s their problem, not yours.

5. Promiscuity

There are over 7 billion people on earth. You could dedicate your whole life to a promiscuous life and still not meet 1% of the people on earth. And you know what? The beautiful ones aren’t born yet. Your brain power and emotions can be put to much better use.

6. Jobs that make you unhappy

The decision to stay in a job that makes you unhappy is your decision. You may want to give all sorts of reasons why you don’t have a choice, but that’s mostly not true. You have the choice to advance in the area of ​​work that interests you. If your job makes you unhappy, either quit it or change your attitude toward the job.

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7. Being in relationships that drain your energy

Whether it’s just friendship or a romantic relationship, you want to spend your time with people who bring positive energy into your life; people who inspire you to be the best version of yourself. If you’re in a relationship that only serves to fulfill your lusts and vain desires, you need to move on, my friend.

8. Regret

Unless you’re old and gray or practically disabled, you should be making an effort to change what you hate in your life rather than wallowing in self-pity. Regret is something we all experience from time to time. A missed opportunity, the wrong college, marrying the wrong person; you can’t change the past. You need all that mental strength to face the present and create the future you want.

9. Fist fight because of an unfaithful partner

You’ve probably seen some of those videos where two people fight over a partner. It’s disgraceful to watch, but the people involved don’t take the time to think about the potential damage to their reputation before getting into an argument. Most people will have fun with the display of shame, make videos, and post them on social media. They lose on all counts.

10. Worries (living in the past and the future)

Modern life comes with its baggage. Often there seems to be something to worry about. But you can choose to live consciously. You can’t change what happened by worrying about it. Nor can you worry about the future to make it better. You only have control over the present and what you do in it.

11. Trying to force a friendship

Why would you want to be with someone who doesn’t want to be with you? Life is hard enough. We need each other to ease the worries and stresses of life. Being with someone who doesn’t want to be with you is like driving with a flat tire. You’ll spend more energy than necessary and still make no progress.

12. Play to win the lottery

The odds of being struck by lightning are 6 to 45 times greater than the odds of winning the lottery. If you drive 10 miles to buy a lottery ticket, the odds of being killed in a car accident along the way are, depending on where you live, 3 to 20 times greater than the odds of winning the jackpot. The odds are very slim. Don’t waste your time.

13. Cheating on your spouse

The damage that infidelity does to a marriage far outweighs the few minutes of joy. Everyone, including the children, has to share the pain that comes with it. It’s not worth it. It may not be easy to resist this temptation, but be quick to remind yourself if you are willing to live with the consequences if you get caught.

14. Investing energy in empty conversations

Have you ever seen people argue about who is better, Messi or Ronaldo? Or who is sexier, Nicki Minaj or Cardi B? Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady of the United States and social activist, put it clearly when she said: “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people“. Choose where you belong.

15. Obsession with celebrity dramas

Obsessing over celebrity drama is one of the dumbest things you can do in your life. You don’t have to keep up with the Kardashians. There’s no point in knowing what outfit some celebrity went out in last weekend. Let’s not even talk about the dating and breakup dramas. It’s important to understand the times you live in and work to make the most of them. But celebrity drama only benefits those who build their careers around it.

16. Gossip and slander

You can make as much small talk as you want, but singling out people and making them the subject of conversation, especially in a negative way, is not a sport for smart people.

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17. Living a false life

It takes just as much work to fake it as it does to put in the work and become it. Wouldn’t you rather become the person you want to be than pretend to be someone you’re not? It’s ten thousand miles better to be rich than to look rich.

18. Think about every move

You have probably heard or read the book, Think and grow rich by Napoleon Hill. It would not be inappropriate to expand the title, Think, act and get rich. You see, no matter how much you think, without taking action, nothing will happen. You will just end up with another title, Those who think too much become poor.

19. Live the life others expect of you

Maybe your parents expect you to study medicine because you were good at math and science in school. Or your friends expect you to behave a certain way. In the end, you are the one who will live with the regret of not expressing your true self.

20. Trying to get adults to change their character

Character is destiny. It is formed from childhood to adulthood. You don’t meet people and then expect to change them to become what you want them to be. People are who they are for many reasons. If you can’t live with people as they are, you’ll save yourself a lot of trouble by leaving them as they are. Yes, people can make the effort to change, but it’s not your job to change them.

21. Trying to explain yourself to critics

You don’t have to explain your every move to the world. They don’t care anyway. And those who care don’t need all the explanations.

22. Trolling people on the internet

You see them all over the internet. They are the keyboard warriors. The internet bullies. Don’t be one of them. It’s not worth your time to create discord and stir up hatred.

23. Refresh your social media page to see who likes your picture

Everyone on social media lives by a script. Nothing is as it seems. You can have a hundred thousand followers and still have no friends. You can use all the emojis and still feel depressed. It’s not worth your time.

24. Being mediocre

Why settle for less than you can be when you can be more? Set higher standards for life

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25. Stick to one opinion your whole life

There are over 200 countries in the world; over 7 billion people; thousands of cultures and languages. You should learn to see things from other people’s perspectives. You can learn valuable life lessons.

There you have it, the 25 things that aren’t worth your time in life. Which of these things will you spend less time on? Let us know in the comments section. If you haven’t subscribed to the After School Africa channel yet, now is probably a good time to do so.

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