4 and 1/2 Habits Quietly Sabotaging Your Calm
Odds are you’ve done number 1 today.
Does this happen to you? It’s 7 pm, and you feel exhausted and depleted.
You can’t quite pinpoint why — it was just a normal day.
But was it really?
Or did something silently drain your mental energy, like a forgotten app quietly eating away at your phone battery?
If you’ve ever felt this way, you’re not alone.
Odds are, you’ve fallen into at least one of these habits today.
Here are four sneaky behaviors (plus a half-bonus!) that might be sabotaging your calm and draining your energy — and practical ways to deal with them.
(Odds are you’ve done number 1 today.)
1 You think you can mind-read
Imagine this:
You’re cooking a new dish for dinner. You try it, and it tastes…okayish.
You’re not entirely sure if it’s as good as it should be. When you ask your partner, he say it’s delicious. But something about his expression makes you wonder. “He’s just being nice,” you think, “he actually doesn’t like it.”
Then he doesn’t finish, and you’re sure he thinks it’s terrible.
