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18 Toxic Things You Need To Stop Doing.

   Bear with me here for a second. You know when you’re driving to an unfamiliar place, blasting music while simultaneously watching your GPS spit out directions?  Then you get to that one part of the route that’s beyond confusing, so you lower the music even though that has absolutely no impact on the way you read the directions? That is your life. That music you need to drown out to concentrate? That’s the STUFF in your life. Turning down the music in the car offers you clarity when you are at your most confusing moment. You don’t really know how or why this makes such a huge difference, but it does.

Here are the 18 other ways to turn down the music to enhance your life:

1. Caring about what other people think

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2. Over analyzing situations that haven’t even happened

3. Worrying about your appearance to the point of exhaustion

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4. Not living in the moment

5. Taking on other people’s problems

6. Surrounding yourself with people who don’t make you happy

7. Focusing on what you don’t have instead of what you do have

8. Staying at a job that you see no future with

10. Cluttering your life

11. Holding on to grudges and anger.

12. Living too much in your past

13. Complaining about things that can’t be changed

15. Having poor eating and dieting habits

16. Living through other people’s lives

17. Focusing only on your insecurities, not your attractive qualities

18. Trying hard to be someone else instead of embracing your actual self


   If you would like some help in achieving a "stress free life" please E-Mail so we can set up an appointment to discuss how this can be done @ DTEC@comcast.net

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