43 Things to Stop Doing Now! – Episode 483

If you do a search on the internet for self-development or personal transformation, you’ll find numerous articles that start with “10 ways to be better” or “5 tips to overcome anxiety” or “3 ways to do this or that…”

A lot of my blog posts and articles have that type of title as well.

We all have a pretty good idea of what we need to be doing to be happy and healthy. And we probably have some behaviors that we know we should stop.

In this post, I’ll give you 43 things you should stop doing now, in my humble opinion.

This is a redo one of my very first podcasts, also posted as a blog post, in 2016. When I released it, I had a crazy soundtrack and all kinds of added sounds like horses and ticking clocks and hiccupping. It’s pretty funny to go back and listen to if you want to.

Here are 43 Things to Stop Doing Now!

1. Stop saying “I hate _.” That just makes you a hater. Language matters, especially your own.
2. Stop responding to problems as if you are the only one with problems. You’re not. Life comes with problems so that you can get better at living.
3. Stop complaining to people that can’t do anything about it. They don’t want to hear.
4. Stop complaining if nothing can be done about it.
5. Just stop complaining, already! (Although I did do a podcast titled “Sometimes you have to moan” so maybe this one should be stop complaining so much…)
6. Stop wishing that what is, isn’t and that what isn’t, is. Deal with what is real because what’s in front of you is your life so take a good look at it.
7. Stop watching so much damn television. Get off the couch. Take a walk. Read a book or listen to one.
8. Stop calling yourself bad names. You are what you say you are.
9. Stop comparing yourself to others. There will always be those that are smarter, richer, luckier, prettier and happier than you. Compare and despair.
10. Stop buying crap you don’t need. Lighten your load. After you die most of your stuff will be donated, sold or thrown away.
11. Stop equating your self-worth with your net worth. Doing that is harmful to both.
12. Stop caring about what other people think about you. Most of the time, it’s none of your business. Care more about what you think about yourself.
13. Stop trying to get more done in less time. Life is not about doing. Life is about being.
14. Don’t allow yourself to be overwhelmed with worry and fear about what the politicians are doing. Be concerned, stay informed, do what you can to stay safe but remember life goes on and we need to make the best of it.
15. Please stop acting and talking like your favorite celebrity or tv character.
16. Stop paying so much attention to what’s happens to Kelly or Megan or Cassie or Tom or any other celebrity. You have more important things to think about.
17. Stop worrying so much.
18. Stop believing everything you hear.
19. Stop believing everything you read.
20. Stop believing everything you see.
21. Stop believing everything you think.
22. Stop pretending you don’t care about that thing that you are always insisting that you don’t care about. Because you really do care.
23. Stop wanting time to pass quicker than it is. That just makes it seem to pass slower. James Taylor said that the “Secret of Life” is enjoying the passage of time.
24. Stop thinking black or white. It’s either this or that. The world has a lot of gray and in between stuff.
25. Stop eating so much junk and stop drinking so much.
26. Stop being so mean to your beautiful body regardless of how you think it looks.
27. Stop arguing for your limitations. I won’t be convinced.
28. Stop believing that there is nothing you can do about it. There is always something you can do about it. At the very least, you can change our perception.
29. Stop believing that what always was, will always be.
30. Stop saying that you will try. Yoda
31. Stop trying to change people. Change yourself instead.
32. Stop believing that God wants to punish you. She told me last week that you’re good at doing that all by yourself.
33. Stop thinking that you deserve to be punished.
34. Stop shoulding all over yourself. Instead of saying “I should,” say “I will.” Or better yet “I commit to…”
35. Stop being so afraid. Fear is False Evidence Appearing Real.
36. Stop pretending that you have nothing to offer or contribute. If you’re still above ground, then you do.
37. Stop being so afraid of other people. They are just YOU in a different body.
38. Stop hanging out with people that want to keep you down. “It’s hard to soar like an eagle when you are running around with pigeons.” -Les Brown.
39. Stop holding back what you need to express. It’s bad for digestion.
40. Stop holding on so tightly. It’s making you constipated.
41. Stop worrying about money. That’s why you don’t have more. Worry is the misuse of your imagination. See yourself as already abundant.
42. Stop worrying that people will find out how smart, talented, gifted, funny, weird, nerdy, sentimental, warm and fuzzy and what a freak of nature you are. It takes all types, and it’s all good, my friend.
43. Stop hiding your light under a basket. We need it now more than ever.

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p.s. Don’t believe everything I’ve just written here. Take what works and leave the rest behind.