- Getting into a road rage. Let the other person overtake you. Better to say sorry and return home than try to be a superman and end up in hospital.
- Getting into a long argument. Don’t waste your words and energy when not required. No one will give you a prize for winning an argument.
- Doing something to impress others. Before buying a fancy car, choosing a career or spending extravagantly on social events, ask if you are doing it for yourself or because you want others to know how great you are.
- Checking your mobile phone every now and then to get updates on social media. The fact is that even if you keep your phone aside for a few days, life will go on normally.
- Surrounding oneself with negative people. You’ll become like them in no time.
- Gossiping in office. What you say may come back to haunt you later.
- Engaging in long friendly chats at work. Not only are you wasting your time, you’re disturbing others. The work that is piling up will not disappear on its own.
- Reading tabloid and useless news (sensational, local crime etc) in newspapers or on internet. Spend some time entertaining yourself by reading such news but don’t let it become an addiction.
- Spending a significant amount of time watching television. By regularly watching melodramas, violent-content and programmes where people are shouting/arguing at the top of their voices, you may be also emotionally draining yourself.
- Spending time with time-wasters. If you don’t learn anything or benefit by being in someone’s company or, at least, enjoy the conversation, run away.
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Rahul Shrivastava, IFS
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