5 Habits You Should Give Up to Succeed in Life
Less is more
As a mindfulness teacher, I am used to skepticism. More than a few people believe that personal development, meditation, and emotional intelligence are just fairy tales for adults with impressionable minds.
I don’t care. I have seen the results for myself. I was a skeptic myself, thinking that self-help was just a publicity stunt to make money selling books. Until one day life hit me hard.
If there is one thing skeptical people are, besides being distrustful, it is that they are pragmatic. skeptical comes from the Latin skeptics, which in turn comes from the Greek σκεπτικός (skeptikós), meaning ‘thoughtful’ or ‘reflective’. The skeptic always doubts but because deep down he is constantly looking for answers.
The skeptic’s problem is the same as anyone else’s: he does not want to leave his comfort zone; he feels very good with his airs of superiority distrusting everything and everyone (I was that arrogant). But when something serious happens to him, he runs away from his comfort zone as if it were a house on fire.
Every good skeptic knows that if he doesn’t help himself, no one will help him. And when he realizes the previous sentence he puts aside hypocrisy to embrace the change of attitude towards self-help because helping himself is the…
