When you are happy, you see the good in everything. It feels like you can easily grab every opportunity and life is awesome. But then before you even know it, everything starts to fall apart. It is the time when you ask yourself what actually happened. Instantly, the old toxic beliefs began creeping back. Your mind feels like being overtaken by doubts and fears and you feel like a hostage who is being continuously told that you can never be successful and never accomplish any true heart’s desires.

Once these toxic beliefs gain a foothold, they become hard to eliminate. If you don’t stop them, they spread into every nook and cranny and make you a prisoner in your own mind. But you need to realize that these toxic beliefs jeopardize your success as well as happiness. Therefore, these beliefs should no longer be given any room in your mind.

Following are the beliefs that you need to get rid of in your life:

1. Linking your happiness with achieving goals:

Goals are good because they make life purposeful. But sometimes people link their happiness with the achievement of those goals. When you start believing that you can only be happy if you reach a certain point in life or achieve something specific, then you fail to enjoy the present moment. You can be happy in finding peace in the moment you are working to achieve those goals.

2. Embrace the darker emotions:

With the popularity of positive thinking, people fear embracing the darker emotions and run away from them. When you start ignoring emotions like anxiety, sadness, or fear, they don’t go away instead they become stronger in mind. Once you start accepting these dark emotions, they become weaker. Instead of resisting an emotion, the best way is to accept is completely and work to get of it.

3. Never too late to make a change:

Most of the people agree to this belief but they do not make any effort to bring a change in their lives. The world is changing every second and the available opportunities can bring a lot of difference in life. The secret to bring a change is to focus all of your energy on building the new instead on focusing on the old ideas.

4. Achieving perfection:

Worrying about perfection is like stopping yourself from being successful. You can never achieve perfection no matter how hard you try. You learn only when you experience failure. The best way if to work your best and do not care about the perfection. Because humans are born to be real, not perfect.

5. The way others see you:

You get affected by how other people perceive you. But most of the time, the perception is not about you. It is about the people who make these perceptions. They are not the one controlling you. It is you who can control of how you perceive the world. So, don’t take anything personally and become immune to the opinions and actions of others.

Via: Hack Spirit