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o focus on preventing failures in your life. Being clear about the things that you want to avoid will help you to declutter your life: What are the things that you want to get rid of or discard, or avoid? Mental clarity on these issues will help you maintain control and focus on the core principles of your life.For example, how can you destroy your finances? If you think about the possible responses to this question, it will be soon clear where potential financial pitfalls and mistakes are (for example, not keeping a budget, accumulating debt, using credit cards, impulse buying, unchecked shopping habits, eating outside, buying luxuries…)So, inversion helps you to view life situations from a fresh angle. You start with the opposite to clarify what you want to avoid or discard.So, what are these top 8 negative scenarios that you want to avoid in your life?Here are potential examples:<ul><li>Not chasing your life and career dreams</li><li>Losing your health</li><li>Losing your job and/or income</li><li>Losing your mental health and wellbeing</li><li>Losing your investments</li><li>Losing your friends</li><li>Not going after your big goals in your life</li><li>Not spending enough time with your family</li><li>Not learning or creating enough</li><li>Not updating your skills or knowledge</li><li>Not having eno

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ugh adventures, leading a boring life</li><li>Being stuck in a rut</li><li>Giving up on your dreams, passions, or interests</li></ul>Please choose 8 of these scenarios (or come up with others).For each one, you can also think about how you can avoid or prevent this scenario.Are you ready?Please do the exercise now (8 minutes).<figure id="e433"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*uDhXOraUNk4ZUk7AOEAn5g.png"><figcaption></figcaption></figure>Failures are inevitable in our lives. If we are clear in our definitions of success and failure for ourselves, we can choose where to fail in our lives (because we cannot win it all).It is also easier to set yourself up for success if you are aware of common pitfalls and mistakes, and if you know how to prevent or avoid them.Define what failures in life look like; so that you can avoid them and set up a life free of these threats, mistakes, or failures.Towards a more positive and calm life;FahriFahri Karakas is the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Self-Making-Studio-Inspirational-Self-Discovery-Employability/dp/173077282X/">Self-making Studio</a>. You can explore more <a href="https://selfmakingstudio.com/">here</a>.</article></body>

SUPER8 EXERCISE SERIES — 8 (FINAL)

Eight Ways Your Life Could Go Wrong

A very fast and simple exercise you can finish in 8 minutes

In this post, I will introduce a quick exercise that will help you think about eight ways that your life could go wrong.

You will think about eight potential negative scenarios about your life.

Let’s assume that you have reached the end of your life and you feel that you have failed: What happened? What went wrong? What mistakes have you done? How did you fail?

We will use the inversion principle to find out the ways that you could fail in achieving your goals in your life. The idea is to identify potential challenges, setbacks, risks, and failures lying ahead of you — so that you can develop plans to avoid these undesirable scenarios.

Inversion is a mental model that helps you to attach a problem with a fresh angle: Instead of blindly chasing success, you are going to focus on preventing failures in your life. Being clear about the things that you want to avoid will help you to declutter your life: What are the things that you want to get rid of or discard, or avoid? Mental clarity on these issues will help you maintain control and focus on the core principles of your life.

For example, how can you destroy your finances? If you think about the possible responses to this question, it will be soon clear where potential financial pitfalls and mistakes are (for example, not keeping a budget, accumulating debt, using credit cards, impulse buying, unchecked shopping habits, eating outside, buying luxuries…)

So, inversion helps you to view life situations from a fresh angle. You start with the opposite to clarify what you want to avoid or discard.

So, what are these top 8 negative scenarios that you want to avoid in your life?

Here are potential examples:

Not chasing your life and career dreams
Losing your health
Losing your job and/or income
Losing your mental health and wellbeing
Losing your investments
Losing your friends
Not going after your big goals in your life
Not spending enough time with your family
Not learning or creating enough
Not updating your skills or knowledge
Not having enough adventures, leading a boring life
Being stuck in a rut
Giving up on your dreams, passions, or interests

Please choose 8 of these scenarios (or come up with others).

For each one, you can also think about how you can avoid or prevent this scenario.

Are you ready?

Please do the exercise now (8 minutes).

Failures are inevitable in our lives. If we are clear in our definitions of success and failure for ourselves, we can choose where to fail in our lives (because we cannot win it all).

It is also easier to set yourself up for success if you are aware of common pitfalls and mistakes, and if you know how to prevent or avoid them.

Define what failures in life look like; so that you can avoid them and set up a life free of these threats, mistakes, or failures.

Towards a more positive and calm life;

Fahri

Fahri Karakas is the author of Self-making Studio. You can explore more here.