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Dwelling on Your Mistakes
Learning from your mistakes is one thing. Dwelling on them wastes your time, diminishes your confidence, and keeps you from getting on with your life.
Dwelling makes you feel like a failure. When you feel like a failure, it’s easy to tell yourself there’s no point in trying, because you already suck.
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Not Asking for Help
There are a handful of reasons we don’t ask for help, but it’s usually because we’re too proud or scared, and that’s a huge waste of time, because it keeps you from moving forward.
If you feel stuck in your career or need to learn new skills and have no idea how to get started, talking to ...
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Trying to Make Bad Relationships Work
Reasons people usually use:
- Thinking you have more in common with the person you're dating than you actually do;
- Being in a relationship just to avoid loneliness;
- Staying in a relationship only out of fear of losing the person.
Bad relationships cloud your j...
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Worrying Too Much About Other People
It’s easy to waste time worrying about other people, too. Your friends and loved ones mean a lot to you, and you want to spend time nurturing them.
But we also spend a lot of time fretting over problems that don’t matter in the long run. Those habits always lead to a dead end, because they...
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Move beyond your mistakes
Successful people keep moving; they make mistakes but don't quit.
Learn to use failure as a stepping stone away from the past. You don't forget your mistake, but you don't dwell on it or let it get you down. Get up and keep moving.
Stop saying you're bad at names
- Saying that phrase makes the other person feel like they're not worth a little extra effort on your part to make their name stick
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