Day 2355: How To Make Yourself Miserable

How to make yourself miserable?  Here are some suggestions:

• Hold on to resentments.
• Expect people to change for you.
• Notice the negatives.
• Compare yourself to other people.
• Avoid awareness of the current moment.
• Anticipate the worst.
• Live in the past.
• Stubbornly resist inevitable changes.
• Stay in upsetting situations.
• Hang around with critical people.
• Beat yourself up about mistakes.
• Say “yes’ to everything.
• Say “no” to everything.
• Squelch your creativity.
• Let your fears control you.
• Cultivate your distrust of the unknown (especially other people).
• Stay small so you won’t “bother” others.
• Avoid things that might make you happy.
• Decide you’re too old to learn.
• Decide you’re too young or inexperienced to know enough.
• Be so invested in a particular outcome that you don’t have a Plan B.
• Focus on should’s rather than could’s.
• Do not indulge in hope because you might get disappointed.
• Do not read the hilarious and helpful book “How to Make Yourself Miserable” by Dan Greenburg with Marcia Jacobs.

I hope none of my other photos make you miserable, here and now.

 

Here‘s 7 Ways to Maximize Misery:

Here‘s Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now by The Smiths.

Heaven knows I’m not miserable now that I’ve written today’s daily blog.  Thanks to all who helped me create this post and — of course! — to YOU.