5 Signs You Are Wasting Your Life

Sam Holstein
The Post-Grad Survival Guide
4 min readApr 26, 2019

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Life is precious and we only get one shot at it. Nevertheless, a lot of people spend their life merely passing the time rather than making the most of the short time they have left.

Young people are especially guilty of this — we are in the springtime of our lives. If ever there was a time to plant a tree, it’s now. Yet most of us don’t do that. Young people spend their time partying, eating junk food, and taking vacations rather than reading, building new skill sets, building healthy habits, and investing in themselves.

Are you merely passing the time instead of making the most of your one life? Here are some ways to tell.

1. You don’t get out of bed quickly upon waking.

If you spend a half-hour to an hour poking around on your phone before getting out of bed, you are not making the most of your life.

People who have a driving purpose in their life don’t spend time lounging around on their phone in bed. Waking up is no big deal, just the start of another random day. To someone with a purpose, waking up every morning is a refreshing welcome to another day of hard yet meaningful work.

2. You spend more than an hour or two a day on aimless activities.

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