Before Hiring The Braeden as a life fixer (failure slaughterer,) please look over the following list to ensure that your problem involves more than simple ignorance of your situation. Once you have done so, should your problems fall outside this range, or should you need the Braeden’s assistance to correct one of the following issues, feel free to contact The Braeden for a free initial consultation.
If you’re like most people, you might ask yourself this question on a regular basis. If you always seem to come to the conclusion that it’s because of other people, you may already have the answer!
- You blame other people for your problems. Only you are responsible for your life and happiness. No one else cares. Really. They don’t. People who think they have no choice in their lives, or who allow other people to control their thoughts, feelings, actions and emotions will never have the power to be happy, because at any moment someone around them could say or do something that will upset them; and because their entitlement based mindset will never allow them to put in the level of work it takes to build their dreams.
- You think you’re depressed, because society has absolved you of responsibility for your own happiness, and conditioned you to believe that you are supposed to wander through life with a perpetual buzz regardless of what a pitiful lump of useless cubical sludge you allow yourself to become. If you’re depressed, before you get yourself a prescription for a chronic drug addiction, ask yourself the following questions: Are you in good shape? Do you eat a healthy and well balanced diet? Do you exorcise almost every day? Are you financially independent, or working towards becoming so? Do you have a social circle you’re happy with? Do you have positive emotional and physical relationships with one or more members of whatever gender you’re attracted to? Do you have interests and hobbies that please and stimulate you? Do you have a cause, goal, or movement that you believe in, that you’re working toward furthering? If you answered “no” to any of the above questions, perhaps you’re depressed because…YOU SHOUD BE. Your mind is trying to tell you that something is missing from your life. Depression, much like fear, is a way for your subconscious to communicate to your conscious that something is WRONG. Taking drugs to make the feeling go away is like doing breathing exorcises to overcome your pain…when you’re standing in an anthill.
- You’ve given up on yourself and settle for “good enough.” Remember when you were a kid, and you wanted to be a super-hero/cowboy/princess/president/movie star/master of the universe? And then something went horribly wrong. You let all your “friends” convince you that they would never be any of those things, and since you’re their friend, it’s really quite rude of you to act as though you can do anything they can’t do, and after all, adults get jobs sitting in little boxes in offices, not running around trying to be more than they should be, and you really don’t need a smart girl, as long as she’s sweet, and cars are really just there to get you from point A to point B, and more money just means more problems, and being at work means you shouldn’t say what you think, or even what you believe, and being a team player means not standing up for yourself, or for other people….and on and on. If you’re not working towards doing whatever it is you’d do if you had no obligations and an unlimited supply of cash; if your significant other is not someone who makes you feel like the luckiest person on the planet, if you don’t feel like the protagonist in whatever kind of movie you like best…well, you settled. And you’re not going to be truly happy until you get off your ass and re-ignite your dreams.
- You are leading an unexamined life. If I listened to Socrates; (and everyone should listen to Socrates,) I’d kill you. You believe what you believe not because it makes sense, but merely because it’s what you were taught. You are a brainwashed husk, filler to makes the lives of real people more interesting. You are the reason every atrocity in history has come to be, because your rapacious fear and stupidity have rendered you incapable of understanding ethics and consequence. But it’s OK! Because you can change. Start asking yourself why you believe what you believe. Do you understand why you do what you do? Why you think what you think? Next time you get righteously indignant or morally outraged about something, take a moment and ask yourself why it is you feel that way. And if your answer has nothing to do with the consequences that stem from the action you are condemning, consider the possibility that you have no real basis for your opinionand either get a basis, or get a new opinion.
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