5 Habits That Make Simple Things Complicated

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JAKARTA – Daily habits affect many things in life. For example, when it comes to food, when you eat nutritious foods your body needs in the right portions, you are likely to get healthy. Habits are also formed and shape ways of thinking and feeling.

Well, habits that can unwittingly complicate things that trigger the following overthinking and anxiety, should be avoided.

1. Have no expectations

Expectations in a positive point of view can be a guide. Achievements that will be more accurately targeted if they have expectations. But expectations also need to be made realistically, according to personal capacity. That is, someone who tries to meet the expectations of others will actually complicate simple things.

Meeting achievements based on expectations is also one way of proving to yourself. Not on other people. Because life's challenges do need to be passed and overcoming difficulties is a way of bargaining over the limits you have.

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2. Negative thoughts

Positive thinking makes life a little lighter. Although it's not easy not to think 'what if' and turn it into 'how to do it'. Negative thinking makes us overthinking and actually can't do much. Because the mind is always alert prone to stress. If you are stressed, the motivation to do something becomes unfocused.

3. Be secretive

There are personal things that do not need to be shared with others. But it's not just about being secretive and not accepting criticism. Criticism, on the positive side, is constructive. By getting criticism, we can become better. That means, it is important to have an open mind.

4. Matter as the measure of all things

Many people think that happiness can only be obtained with money. This is not wrong but not quite right. Happiness is not the effect of buying things with money. Happiness is a mental state that can be obtained not only with material things. For example, you can feel happy when you have time to hang out with your family instead of spending time just looking for money.

5. Living an unhealthy lifestyle

A healthy lifestyle determines the quality of life you know. Because lifestyle does not only affect the health of the body but also health. Simply put, a person needs to eat regularly so as not to trigger stomach acid. Not to mention getting enough sleep, exercising regularly, and being adequately hydrated. Even though these habits seem normal, they can affect your physical and mental health.