The 5 Rules for Creating an Utterly Miserable Life or How NOT to Find Your Big Peace

1. Strive to be perfect
Remind yourself at every occasion that you’ve got to get this perfectly right or you will never be approved of/loved/included or respected. That sounds like a fun way of going about things, doesn’t it?

2. Compare yourself to others
By judging yourself and others, you’ll get to feel either smug or crap (but how often will you really allow yourself to feel smug?).

3. Make happiness conditional
Constantly tell yourself, and others: ‘I’ll be happy when ... I’m thinner/richer/more successful’, etc. You’re putting your happiness on hold and living in fantasy land.

4. Try to prove that you’re someone by pretending to be someone you’re not.
A great strategy for constantly proving to yourself that you’re not good enough as you are.

5. Spend all your time and energy trying to make someone else happy.
Some of the time, perhaps? But notice how much energy you spend focusing on other people’s lives – mind your own business!


ama özellikle ikincisini yapalım olur mu? */ end sarcasm