Several Ways to Make Yourself Miserable

1. Count your troubles, name them one by one.
2. Worry every day about something.
3. Pity yourself.
4. Devise clever but decent ways to serve God and mammon. After all, a man's gotta live.
5. Make it your business to find out what your neighbors or friends are buying this year and where they're going. Try to do them at one better even if you have to take out another loan to do it.
6. Stay away from absolutes. It's what right for you that matters. Be your own person and don't allow yourself to get hung up on what others expect of you.
7. Make sure you get your rights. Never mind other people. You have your life to live, they have theirs.
8. Don't fall into compassion traps - the sort of situation where people can walk all over you. If you get involved in other people's troubles, you may neglect your own.
9. Don't let Bible reading and prayer get in the way of what's really relevant - things like TV and newspaper. Invisible things are eternal. You want to stick with the visible ones - they're where it's at now.