Time Wasting Quotes – 8 Signs You’re Wasting Your Life Away
Looking for time wasting quotes? Here they are plus 8 signs that you are wasting your precious life away. Wasted time = a wasted life.
Let’s chat about time wasting quotes and advice about wasting time.
What image comes to your mind when you think of someone wasting their life?
You probably think of someone unemployed, living in their parent’s basement, and playing video games. However, even very successful people can be guilty of wasting their lives.
News alert: If you spend the majority of your day doing something you’d rather not do, you’re wasting your life.
Ideally, your life should be interesting and meaningful to you. It should even be fun and exciting a good part of the time. Most of all, it should also involve you spending your time doing things you love and that add VALUE to your life.
If you love life don’t waste time because time is what life is made of. Benjamin Franklin
Time = life. Therefore waste your time and waste of your life or master your time and master your life. Alan Lakein
Avoid wasting your life by understanding the most 8 common symptoms:
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SIGN # 1 – You procrastinate too much.
If you just can’t seem to stop yourself from surfing the internet, playing video games, texting your friends, or watching TV, your life might be on the wrong track.
If you’re regularly avoiding those things you should be doing, you might be wasting your life.
- When you’re miserable, you’re going to do everything you can to amuse yourself in an attempt to make yourself feel better.
- People that are unenthused with life in general are master procrastinators. Anything to avoid the pain of boredom or despair sounds good to people in this situation.
Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin and inspiration will find you. H. Jackson Browne
A day can slip by when you’re deliberately avoiding what you’re supposed to do. Bill Watterson
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. Napoleon Hill
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SIGN # 2 – You spend money foolishly.
Excessive spending can be another sign that you’re wasting your life.
Spending too much is another distraction technique.
Unfortunately, purchases never do much to enhance your mood after a very short-term boost.
You’re left needing to spend more money to feel good again.
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SIGN # 3 – You dread getting out of bed during the week.
This isn’t to say you should be jumping for joy when the alarm goes off.
However, if you can’t stand the thought of spending another day following your current path, it might be time for a change.
Time is one measure of life. Time wasted is life wasted, time saved is life saved. Joanne Lewis
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SIGN # 4 – Your negative self-talk is unrelenting.
When you’re wasting your life, your self-talk can be brutal and never seems to let up.
You might consider a significant life change if you can’t speak nicely to yourself.
After all your body hears everything that your mind says.
Once you replace your negative thoughts with positive ones, you will start seeing positive results.
Your negative self-talk is like a virus that infects your self-esteem and self-confidence. Jerry Bruckner
Don’t be a victim of negative self-talk – remember you are listening. Bob Proctor
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SIGN # 5 – You lack long-term goals that excite you.
A person without long-term goals is simply blowing in the wind.
You can’t make significant progress in anything without clear intention.
A good goal should be exciting to accomplish.
You should aim to set goals that excite and scare you at the same time.
I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time. Dean Kamen
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.
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SIGN # 6 – You’re depressed.
There are a variety of reasons for depression, but one cause is living the wrong life for you.
See your doctor but consider the possibility that you might just be unhappy with the direction of your life.
- If you dislike your life and don’t like your options, it’s natural to feel depressed.
No storm, not even the one in your life, can last forever. The storm is just passing over. Iyanla Vanzant
Whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life. Tony Robbins
Nothing is my fault but everything is my responsibility. Jack Delosa
There is no person in this whole world who is a mistake, no matter how different that person may seem. Fred Rogers
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SIGN # 7 – You avoid others.
When you’re not pleased with your life path, you might feel a little embarrassed by what’s going on.
We all want to be that person with a career we love and a passionate attitude about life.
Successful people can be an additional reminder that you’re struggling.
Here’s the thing: you can avoid reality but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
Avoiding things that you deem unattainable on first sight will limit you. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Pain in this life is not avoidable but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable. R.D. Laing
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SIGN # 8 – You stay in your comfort zone 24/7.
It’s hard to cope when you feel like you’re wasting your life.
Any additional stress can feel overwhelming.
A common coping strategy is to stay where you know it’s safe.
But what if everything you wanted is one step outside your comfort zone?
- Watching reruns of your favorite shows, playing video games, avoiding new foods, and hiding at home are common signs that your life path might need an upgrade.
- You really do need to step out of your comfort zone in order to become stronger and grow. Outside your comfort zone is where the magic happens.
- Yes it is a hard thing to do – but you have to let go of the life you are familiar with and take the risk to life the life you dream about. A comfort zone is a beautiful place but nothing ever grows there my friend.
In any given moment we have two options – to step forward into growth or to step back into safety. Abraham Maslow
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In the end, it’s not easy to admit to yourself that you might be wasting your life, but what’s the point in wasting another day?
You are responsible for your life so if you’re sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time.
Only you have the power to move your life forward.
So be picky with who and what you invest your time on.
Wasted time is worse than wasted money and regret for wasted time is more wasted time.
If your activities do not match your priorities, you are indeed wasting your life.
Make today the day you begin moving toward a life that is interesting and meaningful to you.
There is no one coming to save you, so the responsibility rests upon your shoulders.
Take a small step today toward a life that fulfills you.
One day you are going to die so stop wasting your time.
Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life. Jackie Robinson
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has no discovered the value of life. Charles Darwin
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. Bertrand Russell
Your time is limited so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. Steve Jobs
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