10 Things You Stop Doing Once You’re Finally Ready to Change Your Life

10 Things You Stop Doing Once You’re Finally Ready to Change Your Life

This is my personal opinion on the 10 things you need to stop doing so you can change your life.

1. You stop fearing what is on the other side of who you want to become.

No one is immune to fear, but you can practice courage to see the nothing-burger that usually lies on the other side of it. This life advice doesn't apply to fighting wild Grizzly bears or lions.

2. You stop making problems or obstacles bigger and more complex.

Instead, you downsize them into smaller challenges on your daily to-do list so you can focus on making steady progress one small step at a time.

3. You never stop expressing your creative purpose.

By expressing and exploring your talents, strengths, inventions, art, music, words, businesses, and startup ideas you keep having, you're tapping into your creative gifts from God. The Universe. Whatever you want to call It. Whether you're a pagan, atheist, or Christian, humans from all walks of life have used their creative gifts for the betterment of the world.

4. You stop dating or being in relationships with people that don't support you.

You have two options: you either have people that influence you for the better, or you don't. There are no third options.

5. You stop caring so much about people's opinions.

The best antidote for success and happiness (and proving people wrong) is getting yourself to a place no one thought you could get to and not care about it anyway. It chaps the bums of those haters, doubters, and naysayers who keep riding their horse Mediocrity into the sunset.

6. If you stop looking for happiness elsewhere, you might find happiness where you are.

This moment is your key to happiness. It always is. Do you turn it often? Whether meditation, reading, exercise, yoga, running, walking, or being alone in nature, it's a good experiment to see if you're happy with who and where you are in the quiet times of your life.

7. Stop thinking everyone else knows what they're doing.

They don't. Suzanne Gordon says, "To be alone is different, to be different is to be alone." Just keep going. Progress is all we should care about (because arriving at the destination causes an existential crisis of what to do next anyway).

8. Stop growing your company or life so fast that you dilute the potency of your future business or family values.

This basically means you have to stop saying "yes" to every possibility because you get spread too thin and end up bringing less value to the people and customers you truly care about serving.

9. Stop stopping.

Especially with questions. If you ask the right questions, you'll get better answers. If you want to succeed in your industry or domain or chosen craft, keep asking questions that get you more insightful answers on how to separate yourself from the competition. "Question everything. Learning something. Answer nothing." - Euripides

10. You stop eating like crap.

It affects your metabolism, which has been directly linked to lowering your mental health. "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." - Hippocrates

Good luck out there,

Mr. Mullet