15 Different Ways Most People Elongate or Lengthen Their Tough Times

 

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15 Different Ways Most People Elongate or Lengthen Their Tough Times

Tough times do not last as it is often said, but there are things people do unknowingly to them that elongate, or lengthen their tough times. People do the things they love, things that pleases them. People do what they love and they love what they do. People do what makes them comfortable and happy. And the things that makes them uncomfortable and unhappy they avoid or ignore. Tough times are period of adversities or misfortunes or hardships or hard knocks of daily living which are somehow hard than some others. It is true that tough times do not last but yet, it varies from person to person. A critical look at what most people do or indulge in on daily basis as part of the activities to survive reveal how plenty persons often elongate or lengthen their own tough times by their own actions. Below are some ways of how people elongate or lengthen their tough times or hard times or difficult times:

1.     1. They are not tough: Most people are not tough, that is why, when the going become tough they pull backward. When you are not tough, you are soft and soft people do not win their wars. Do you know that success is a war? Your success is your war. If you are soft, you will not be able to win the war. 

When you are facing or experiencing a tough or difficult times, you need to be tough to tackle the tough times. Most people love to give up too quickly because they are soft. Most people elongate or lengthen their tough or hard times because they are not tough.

2.     2. They make wrong choices: The choices of people make them or mar them. People choose what they want to become. You are what you choose to be. On daily basis, people make wrong choices. They choose their actions and activities that they like. They do what they love and love what they do.

Some of the things people love to do are based on wrong choices. People do what makes them comfortable and happy, and avoid what makes them uncomfortable and unhappy. All these they do based on wrong choices.

Some people go after the wrong things because that is what they choose. The things people love the most kill them the most. Wrong choices of people contribute in elongating or lengthening their tough times or hard times or difficult times.   

3.     3. They make wrong decisions: Decision is the act of making up your mind about something. It is a position or opinion or judgement reached after consideration. It is the trait of resoluteness as evidenced by firmness of character or purpose. With these meanings of decision, you can see that decision can be right or wrong.

When decisions are made, they can be right decisions or wrong decisions. Wrong decisions has led lot of people into acting hastily and rashly. Acting hastily and rashly has led many people to become poor.

Even the bible said, that people choose to be poor because they are acting hastily and rashly. Wrong decisions has contributed in elongating or lengthening the hard times of people.

4.     4. Excessive drinking: Excessive drinking is one of the social problem many people are suffering from. Excessive drinking does not look like problem but it is actually a big issue many people are battling with. Those who indulge in excessive drinking do not even think about the consequences attached to drinking excessively.

It is also one thing that make some people to be poor. Anything that can make you poor can elongate you hard times. The prodigal son lost his wealth, and of such contributing factor is excessive drinking.

Excessive drinking makes one to be drunk. It causes people to behave irrationally. People choose to be poor also when they indulge in excessive drinking. So one way people elongate or lengthen their difficult times is through excessive drinking.  

5.     5. Indecision: Indecision is the trait of irresolution; a lack of firmness of character or purpose. When there is a lack of firmness of purpose, you are no longer sure of what you want. Indecision is making people not to stick to their cherished purposes. Indecision is also making people to find it difficult to follow their dreams. Most people do not stick to what they should do and be doing because of indecision.

One major reason why most people are procrastinating on what they should do and be doing is indecision. Decision is the act of making up your mind about something. It is a position or opinion or judgement reached after consideration.

Indecision is the inability to make up your mind on something. It is also the inability to come into or draw conclusion on what you really want to do. Most people never catch up with their dreams because of indecision. One thing that elongate people adversities or tough times or hard times is indecision.

6.     6. Abuse of hard drugs and other substances: Another social problem in our society is the issue of abuse of hard drugs and other substances. Many young persons, indulge in the abuse of hard drugs and other substances which have negative impacts on the individual and the society at large.

Many people are suffering from psychiatric problems due to the frequent high rate of indulging in the abuse of hard drugs and other substances which are harmful to the body system. Like excessive drinking, abuse of hard drugs and other substances has caused more harm and still causing the harm.

People have wasted their hard earn money on abusing of drugs and other substances which had led to their poverty. Many people are still suffering today due to the abuse of drugs or hard drugs and other substances yesterday. 

7.     7. They avoid or evade difficult works: People struggle every day to catch up with their dreams or to come to their dreams. As they do so, they are always confronted with the issue of avoiding unpleasant or distasteful or difficult works. This is where the main problem of most people often start or begin.

Some people are very active but the issue cited above is still a problem to them. When they face a difficult task or work or duty, they tactically evade it. They see nothing wrong with dodging the said task or work because the task or work or duty is killing and they are not ready to kill themselves on it.

To catch up with your dreams, most of the tasks or works or duties or responsibilities are unpleasant or distasteful or difficult. The more you keep dodging or evading distasteful or difficult works or tasks or duties, the less you catch up or come to your dreams or cherished desires.

Most people elongate their problems or sufferings or tough times because they are fond of dodging of evading distasteful or unpleasant or difficult works or tasks or duties.   

8.     8. Wrong beliefs: Wrong beliefs is another problem area most people are suffering from. People hold unto wrong beliefs that impact negatively on their lives. These wrong beliefs often tend to prevent people who hold unto them from doing the things they should be doing and ought to be doing.

One of such beliefs is favor is better than labor.  Another wrong belief of people is, if God wants me to succeed, I will succeed. Invariably, if God does not wants me to succeed, I would not succeed. This means that no matter how hard somebody works, since God does not wants him or her to succeed, him or she cannot succeed.

This is a very wrong belief. How, can God not wants you to succeed? Many people who hold or accept this beliefs tend to become lazy in doing the things they should be doing. They no longer want to strive harder or labor for what they prayed for. Many people lengthen their hard times because of their wrong beliefs.   

9.     9. Self-distrust: Self-distrust is to doubt oneself of what he or she can do. One strong reason why most people tend to accept fake or false or self-made impossibilities is the issue of self-distrust or doubt.  When you doubt yourself, the things that you supposed to be doing, you will not be doing them.

Things you can do, you will think or conclude you cannot do them. Sometimes, works that even simple will be taken to be difficult or very difficult. Most people fail to go through their problems because of the problem of self-distrust. By so doing, they elongate their hard times or difficult times.

10. 10. Procrastination: procrastination is the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or deferring an action to a later time. It is slowness as a consequences of not getting around to it. When you are fond of procrastinating your responsibilities or duties, you will end up not doing them in most cases.

Many people never get to do some or certain of their works that count due to higher rate of procrastination. In another word, many People never get to achieve their dreams because of frequent procrastination of what they should be doing.

Instead of going through their problems because of procrastination, people prefer to go around their problems and the outcome is that, they elongate their difficult or tough times.

11. 11. Desisting: Desisting is the refusal to do what you are supposed to do.  It is to cease to proceed or act; to stop; to forbear; - often with from. It is cease, stop, pause, forbear, stay, leave off, break off, and give over. When you desist from what you should do and be doing, you will indulge in what you are not meant or required to do.

In most cases, people end up doing every other things because they desisting from doing what they should be doing. The more you are desisting in doing what you should do, the more you will never get to or catch up with your dreams.

Most people are not winning or succeeding because they are desisting. So, people lengthen their suffering or hardship because they are desisting.

12. 12. Weak or poor or negative confession: When your confession is weak or poor or negative, you will end up intimidating yourself from doing what you should do. You will start give in to self- distrust or doubt. Your confessions affect your actions for better or for worst. Most people find it hard to bring their dreams home because they frequently indulge in negative confessions.

You cannot do or achieve above your confessions. You will always remain at the level, of your confessions. So people should learn to confess positively no matter how life strike a heavy blow at them. They should learn to be strong like the giraffe or the camel.

Most people do not know that their negative or poor confessions or words of their mouth is elongating their adversities or hard times.   

13. 13. Laziness: laziness is the inactivity one experienced as a consequences of dislike for work.  When you dislike work, you will definitely become lazy. Lazy people always live to eat. They never get to achieve much. They choose their pleasure over their works or duties.

If you are lazy, it is often said, that you would not succeed because God does not favour a lazy man. Laziness gives people temporary or brief pleasure but in the long-run, laziness elongates your pains or tough times. 

14. 14. Self-pampering: Self- pampering or pampering is the act of indulging or gratifying a desire. Pamper means to treat with excessive indulgence.  Indulgence is the inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires. When you over pampering yourself, you will find it difficult to do certain things which you expected or required to do.

Pampering or self-pampering is one of the things that make people to frequently procrastinate their works or duties or responsibilities. The more you are over-pampering or pampering yourself, the more you give to procrastination.

Self-pampering makes people to be poor or even poorer than they were previously. So many people never get to achieve their cherished purposes because of self-pampering. For example, the prodigal son. Self-pampering is one way people elongate their hardship or tough times or difficult times.

15. 15. Laxity/laxness/slackness: Laxity or laxness or slackness is the quality of being lax and neglectful. The word lax means lacking in rigor or strictness. Rigor is something hard to endure. For example, pain or pains or difficulties.  Strictness is uncompromising resolution. It is a conscientious attention to rules and details.

Here, you cannot bear pains or difficulties or take pains. And you, lack the ability to pay conscientious attention to rules or details and you cannot keep to your resolutions.

When these are happening, you will be avoiding certain responsibilities that you are supposed to be doing.

Your attention to rules or details will be divided. Neglectful means failing in what duty requires. It is not showing due care or attention. It means full of neglect; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive; indifferent; thoughtless.

When you do not accord serious attention to your duties or works or tasks, you are showing or displaying laxity or laxness or slackness.

How can you bring home your dreams or make your dreams come though when you are showing laxity or slackness. It will be impossible to do. So, most people lengthen their difficult or hard times due to laxity or laxness or slackness.

Be different do not elongate or lengthen your tough times. Learn to minimize or eliminates them. It is good for you.