Many people complain, saying: “Why do only bad things happen to me? Why does it seem that in my life things don’t go the way I want? What I plan doesn’t happen, and from time to time I find myself at a dead end.”

Now, the answer can be very simple: everything that happens to you is merely a consequence of your choices, of what you chose to do most of the time. And this tends to be worse with people who are impulsive and who act without thinking.

This applies to different areas of life. For example, some people say: “My marriage was a fiasco”. But what did you expect if you cheated, fought, lied, mistreated or placed relatives or work above marriage? Is it hard to predict that this will end badly? There comes a time when the partner won’t take it anymore. It’s that old story: no one is meek and mild at all times. And the person is treating the partner as if they should accept everything. It’s not going to work. Some people say: “I’m always making bad choices“. It’s not that. Perhaps you have a problem with acting on emotions rather than reason.

The same works for people who are always in financial debt. The person buys on a credit card with high-interest rates, doesn’t make a budget to know the spending limit and asks themselves: “Why am I all in debt?”

And what about the health area? The person goes to the doctor and receives a prescription for a medication that attacks the liver, the stomach and the head. Then the doctor gives you another medicine to deal with the symptoms that the first medicine caused. And the person wonders why they are not healthy. If a person did everything they shouldn’t with their health in their youth, how can they expect good health afterwards?

In other words, we are all subject to the consequences. Logic tells us that “if this happens, then that will happen consequently”. There is a cause and a consequence. So what can we do?

1) Try to be less impulsive, don’t act on the impulsiveness of the here and now.

2) Think more about the long term. “If I do this, what will happen to me tomorrow?”

3) Use logic. Think more and be less impulsive.

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