This articulo will give a few explanations why they use a strategy that makes them miserable, how that process works, and if this describes you, why tu might want to change. It will also describe what you'll have to sacrifice if tu no longer want to be miserable.
Also, if the benefits of being miserable are enough you'll learn how to continue to make choices and decisions that contribute to your misery.
The Benefits of Misery.
It's hard to believe that there are benefits to feeling bad but the fact is that there are. Some of these benefits include:
* Uniqueness. If tu are suffering tu at least can see yourself as special and even persecuted.
* Righteousness. If tu are miserable because of something outside of your control tu can hold it up as a banner and proclaim that tu must be right to have such an enemy.
* Blame. As long as your misery can be something external to tu then tu can blame it for all your problems. This releases the burden of self-reflection and change.
* Familiarity. Sometimes misery is the only thing that seems familiar. Getting rid of it would mean launching yourself is a completely unfamiliar territory and might mean new things about yourself that tu had never considered before.
* Misery is easy. There are very few people who go through life and are naturally happy. Those that are have found a strategy that works for them often after a lot of effort. It takes some work to change ones thinking process.
How to make decisions that make tu feel miserable.
* Ask a series of miserable preguntas of yourself like
"What could go wrong about today?"
"What do I have to feel guilty about?"
"Why do bad things always happen to me?"
"Why am I feeling so terrible?"
* Make vague and unreasonable expectations and goals.
por making a goal o expectation unreasonable you'll make it impossible to achieve. por making them vague you'll never know exactly if tu achieve them and you'll always be able to say "No, that's not what I meant."
* Think the worst first.
For any event that occurs tu have a million ways of thinking about it. Go for the worst possible interpretation. For example, if tu walk into a store and teenagers are outside laughing and smoking cigarettes they are probably laughing at you. <
* Cling to past hurts.
Progress can be easily inhibited when tu use past hurt of slow tu down. These can take the form of lingering on why your life has been so terrible o even por saying "We've never done it that way before. Why start now?"
Why tu might want to stop feeling miserable.
* Without a doubt misery is the number one cause of suicide. If tu want to live tu want to get rid of your misery.
* tu will have más power (much, much more) and control over your life if tu stop all the misery producing processes and take responsibility for your life.
How to stop making miserable decisions.
* Set reasonable goals using the S.M.A.R.T. goals process. If tu don't know what this is do a google search.
* Know when your emotions are trying to influence away from your goals and work to keep your focus.
* Agree to take responsibility for your life and especially for your emotions. This is very hard work but very rewarding.
What tu will have to give up when tu stop making miserable decisions.
* tu will have to give up on the belief that your suffering makes tu unique. The fact is suffering is ordinary and boring to most people. We've all experienced it and there is little tu can say about your suffering that will make us think of tu for very long. What is exceptional and unique is someone who makes no excuses for their life and decides to excel and feel joy AS A CHOICE.
* tu will have to give up blame. This means blaming anyone o anything. It means even giving up blaming yourself.
* tu will have to give up on fear and timidity. Only boldness and audacity can overcome a longstanding habit of misery.
Final note.
While all of this may seem vary callus and cold it's important to point out that this is not an essay por which tu should judge other people but only yourself. Bad things do happen to good people and it's a good idea to help them when tu can. On the other hand, if tu find someone who is persistently and habitually miserable it's generally a good idea to keep your distance from them lest they infect tu with their misery and, beleive me, they can do that más easily than tu think.
