Stop Stopping!

"Stop procrastinating and start doing your work on time." "Stop eating processed food and eat all natural foods." "Stop going out to eat and cook meals at home." How many times can you recall, within a week, being told to stop doing/saying something? It can be from a person you physically see in-person, online, etc. I'd say many people are told to stop doing/saying something at least once a week. Before you continue to read this blog, visit this link: http://www.lifebuzz.com/just-stop/

Stop, stop stop! How many times can someone be told to stop?! I understand there are good intentions and others want to prevent you from getting hurt and make the same mistakes they've made in the past. However, how many of those people have told you to start doing something? My guess is that it happens less often.

Earlier, I posted a link to the post 30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself. Why do we have to stop doing anything? When I see the word stop, I think of lack of progress. How can I become better if I am not given the green light to go?

Instead, I want to focus on things you should start doing to yourself. There are many, but I've selected my favorites:

1) Start spending time with the right people. The right people will give you guidance, honest feedback, a positive support system, and make you want to become a better person.

2) Start confronting your problems. Facing what you don't want to will teach you a life lesson and it will improve your confidence. It may not make facing future problems easier, but you will know how to do it.

3) Start being yourself. If people don't like you, then it's not the end of the world. You will attract people who like your genuine, authetic self.

4) Start looking to yourself for happiness. If you cannot make yourself happy, then how will anyone else be able to?

5) Start looking to yourself for success. There will be someone else who's faster, stronger, wiser, smarter, etc. than you. Comparing your suceesses to theirs will not make you happier. Focus on your personal progress and be happy with how far you've come. Then, figure out how you can become better the next time.

6) Start to raise your own standards. How many times has someone tried to being you down to his or her level? Instead of lowering your self-worth to please the masses, fight the good fight and be picky You have high expectations of yourself.

7) Start being grateful for everything-big and small. Life is full of hidden surprises, gems, and treasurers. Othertimes, they are rolled out on a red carpet. Regardless of size, each event, thing, person, etc. that's brought into your life has a purpose for being there. If you take the time to enjoy everything, then life will become better and you will become happier.