15 signs you are on the wrong life path

Are you on the wrong life path?

It happens often. It happens when the outside world forces you to concentrate on earning a living. It’s the fear of not being able to pay the bills. The pressure of society’s “standards” and the pressure of not wanting to disappoint your family.

You get no time to find out your true passion. All that pressure brings you on a path that is believed to be safe. However, that path may not be the right path for you.

It leads to an unfulfilled and unhappy life. Still, you may not realize or maybe don’t want to admit that you are on the wrong path.

Read the following 15 signs you’re on the wrong life path to find out. If some of those 15 signs resonate with you, then you might want to rethink your path. Why?

Because life is a lot better on the right path.

15 signs you are on the wrong life path

1. You are always tired

You need 15 alarms to get out of bed in the morning, sleep more than enough and still feel tired throughout the entire day? This is probably because what you are doing is tiring you, and you are unhappy with your life.

2. Your health deteriorates

You are sick all the time, you deal with terrible headaches, your concentration decreases, your head is turning, you just don’t feel good at all? Well, the deterioration of your health is a consequence of unhealthy stress. The stress inside your head that you have because you are not following your true desires.

3. You make excuses

Do you keep finding excuses for not doing what you “should be doing”? Do you always catch yourself justifying why you did or “could” not do what you should have, or at least not all of it? If this is the case, chances are high that you are on the wrong path. If you don’t prioritize the work or the studies you do and keep looking for excuses, chances are high that it is not the right thing to do.

4. You are not happy with your accomplishments

Even when you accomplish great things or you make nice progress, you don’t feel joy? Even when someone compliments you on your work, it does not feel right and you are not grateful for the comment? You just never feel proud? Then maybe what you are being complimented on is not what you want to receive compliments for.

5. You have no motivation

You keep doing what you do only because you have to and it always feels like you’re forcing yourself. Also, you limit the work to what is necessary. You have no motivation at all, and you lack inspiration.

A clear sign that you are not on the right track.

6. You have different priorities

It is hard to make your work or studies a priority, and you always catch yourself wanting to practice your hobby or just something different from what you are supposed to do. You know that it should be a priority, but it just is not. In addition to this, you feel like you are unable to organize your life because there are so many other things that you’d love to do, but they are missing out because of what you have to do.

7. You don’t have time for yourself

It feels like your life is passing too quickly, and you never find time for yourself to wind down. Or maybe you have time, but you just cannot calm down and as a consequence, it does not feel as alone time.

8. You feel a constant need to justify yourself

Maybe deep down in your gut, you have that feeling telling you that this is not it and that you want out of it. However, you can’t admit and constantly justify why you are doing it. You need to keep the facade to the outside world, but you also may be justifying it for yourself to believe it.

9. You don’t do it for yourself

Have you got a feeling that you are not truly doing it for yourself? Are you maybe studying what you are because of your family that wants you to? Are you doing a job only to earn money for a living? Your friends are successful and you don’t want to be left behind? Or is it just the society that you grew up in that expects you to choose “the safe way”? Think about it. Reflect whether you are the one who wants it or not.

10. You are constantly feeling down and easily get agitated

You don’t feel like yourself anymore, because you are constantly feeling down and waiting for the next “up”. Your days pass, one worse than the other, and nothing exciting happens. You feel like you have lost your joy… your true self. In addition to this, you easily get upset with everyone. This might be the expression of your dissatisfaction with your life.

11. You are anxious

You might know that something is wrong and that you are not feeling fulfilled in your life and with what you are doing. However, you are afraid because you have no idea of what else you could do instead. You can’t see beyond your constricted life path that’s just not for you. The world is frightening for you, and you fear to be a misfit. The fear gives you pressure and forces you to continue.

12. You have little to no self-confidence

You lack self-confidence because you are always forcing yourself to do something you don’t like doing. Maybe you have not realized it yet, but when you are doing something you don’t like, you don’t seem to see any progression, nor ever feel up to it. You feel never good enough, and it only becomes worse.

Read this post to boost your self-confidence.

13. You don’t want to think about it, even though you question everything

You question literally everything on a daily basis, but you keep blocking the questions out because you don’t want to be confronted with them. Basically, you don’t allow yourself to think about it.

Why? Because deep down, you feel that you are living a lie, but you can’t and won’t admit it because of your anxiety.

14. You neither have goals nor dreams

You are no dreamer and you have no goals to reach for because you have no motivation to set them. Fulfilling your tasks already takes all your energy up, and you think that dreaming is for fools. Dreaming seems impossible to you because you are not able to on the path you are on. You have already settled for the life you lead. 

Related: The importance of dreams in your life

15. You look forward to a different future

In the few moments during which you actually allow yourself to question things and to look a bit further, you picture yourself in a different future, a different environment, a different job. Completely distinct from the life you are living right now. You also ask yourself if there is not more to life than what you are experiencing. And these aspects are what provoke even more anxiety because you can’t think of any possibility for ever being able to achieve that life you wish for.

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And now?

If you have encountered any of these signs, now please don’t panic. Don’t quit your job today. First, learn to accept, then look for what you truly want. It is okay to land on the wrong life path. Nothing has gone “wrong”. It is just an opportunity to find another way!

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