As someone who is always in their head, taking cold showers was a profoundly powerful exercise in liberating myself from this faulty way of thinking. Sometimes, it's best to stop thinking and start doing.

If you carry a negative attitude and assume the world is out to get you, you are likely to perceive people and events with a threat mindset and react accordingly. Your bad attitude might offend or hurt someone and cause them to react poorly to you, further perpetuating your (now self-fulfilling) prophecy that the world is, indeed, against you.

Over the last couple of years, I’ve been on a mission to fix my constant bloating. I started realizing it wasn’t normal to always feel bloated and I was ready to figure out the root cause. Unfortunately, Indian food was one of my main bloating culprits and I had to eliminate it from my diet. Honestly? It sucked.