This blog post will be about eight seemingly good habits (tendencies, behaviors, mindsets) that are actually hurting us in the long term. They're harming our personal and professional lives, happiness, and health.

Some of these behaviors are indeed praise-worthy, but at the level they are a character of a lot of the society, they have lost the healthy balance and become hurtful.

For many years I also felt like these tendencies were something to strive for, and I tried to embody them, but through the years, I have realized how they have been more of a self-sabotage that is blocking me from true fulfillment and success than beneficial tools to reach goals.

We have spent so much time with this obsessive form of thinking - worrying - that we don't even notice anymore how we are engaging in it again. We believe it is our normal way of being.

Overthinking is a state that can suck energy out of you and paralyzes your actions. Overthinking leads you nowhere, because it keeps you worrying and fearing the outcomes.

Have you been trying to use self-talk or positive affirmations, but have not seen yet the results you thought they would bring? Here is what you might be doing wrong.

Trying to change things only on a behavioral level does not work. You need to rewire your subconscious brain - deal with your limiting beliefs.

Perfectionism and people-pleasing — tendencies that give us a false feeling of benefit.

Ever experienced brain fog? Having regular exercise might help. Regular exercising also helps with reducing stress and improves confidence and self-esteem overall.

Reviews and summaries of three life-changing books: one that explains neuroscience very easily to help us learn to control our thoughts, one that explains quantum physics very easily to help us change old, limiting, and stagnating worldviews, and one that introduces another dimension of intelligence among IQ and EQ - Spiritual Intelligence.

It is important that we don't ignore how we feel. We have the ability to discern emotions and find the root cause of them. We can choose what we do with the way how we feel.