Ten things that we know but do not apply

In many occasions people go to the psychologist looking for him to reaffirm what they already know but never apply. They are ideas in which most people agree, understand them and even become the councils par excellence for the "others" but hardly apply themselves.

Thus, I have taken the liberty of summarizing what would be the main "good ideas" that are also the "least applied" in our practical life:

1. Each situation, however negative it may seem, involves something positive. Of course, nothing is totally bad or totally good, the coexistence of opposites is the law of life. We know that there is always some positive perspective but ... how complicated it is to find the positive aspects when the situation touches us very closely!

2. If what we do does not work, we must try different ways. There is no doubt, if we want to solve a problem and we observe that our strategy does not work, supposedly we should only vary the resolution path but ... it is not so simple! Usually we are tied to a single solution and we are not able to analyze the problems from different perspectives, the less we have the flexibility to change our behaviors based on our attitudes and more ingrained habits.

1. Most concerns are totally useless. We worry about the global economic crisis, pandemics, diseases ... the list of concerns is immense but objectively very little we can do to solve most of the problems that confuse us. Nonetheless, we develop a cult culture of meaningless worry.

1. Let us accept what we can not change and focus on what can be changed. It is the best way to direct our physical and psychological resources since we really have very little control over the environment but on very few occasions we are able to identify those situations over which we have no influence.

1. Excess safety is a danger. When we neglect ourselves, whether in a job, in a relationship or with our friends, the results are disastrous; We should not take anything for granted, but we must maintain what we have achieved with our daily work; however ... how difficult it is not to neglect and put the same effort of the first days!

1. If we try to do much at the same time, we will not achieve anything. Or in the words of a popular saying: "who covers a lot little squeezes". However, we become the kings of overwhelm because we accept activities and responsibilities for which, objectively, we do not have the necessary time or capabilities.

1. Perfection does not exist. It is perhaps one of the phrases that we have all said at some point in our lives, however ... how many times do we embark on the search for perfection in any of the tasks we undertake? How many times do we reproach ourselves because we can not reach that perfection?

1. The best way to make a good impression among people is to behave naturally. But very rarely we achieve it because we are afraid to show our true self, which is why we act in many situations of social life.

1. We must take every moment to the fullest. You can not add time to life but life to time. However, many times we waste precious time in activities that give us very little satisfaction and zero benefits.

1. We can not change the world but our context is closer. However, we usually sit down to complain about bad luck and put the responsibility for all our "misfortunes" on the shoulders of others, no matter who they are: the education we receive as children, the school teacher, the government. .. Any site is good to deposit the responsibility and leave the change for another day.

Really these "good ideas" that usually "do not apply" can be duplicated, tripled, multiplied ... the article is just a pretext to reflect on everything we think but never put into practice. It is a pretext to rethink ourselves as people and to achieve, from now on, a life more committed to personal happiness.