Things to Kick Out of Your Life

[October 16, 2025]  I’ll be highlighting The Savage Narrator channel today, which has done a good job of telling us there are things to kick out of your life.  In a video called 10 Things You Must Quietly Eliminate from Your Life | Don’t Tell a Soul, we see that some toxic habits and attachments quietly destroy our energy, confidence, and growth. 

Failing to eliminate these from your life will make your life significantly harder than you might think. The channel is doing a good job of keeping us updated on those “big ticket” items that hinder us and hold us back.  

Here are the 10 things you must quietly eliminate from your life:

1. People Who Drain You: That one friend who always comes around when their life is in shambles, but disappears when you need help.  Cut them off quietly.  Don’t make a speech.  Don’t announce it.  These “energy vampires” don’t just waste your time; they make you feel guilty for having boundaries. 
2. The Some Day Mentality:  We all know about that little voice in our heads that says, “I’ll do it when I’m ready.”  Kill it.  Because, spoiler alert, you’re never going to feel ready.  Most people die with their best ideas in their heads because they waited for the perfect time.  Do it today, even if it’s ugly, messy, imperfect, because messy progress beats perfect procrastination every time.
3. The Need to Explain Yourself:  Why are you always explaining your decisions to those who don’t pay your bills?  Stop it.  You don’t owe anyone an explanation.  Explanations are currency; save them for people who matter. 
4. The Constant Comparison Game:  This one is brutal.  Every scroll on social media means comparing yourself to others. Mute it.  Unfollow.  Detach.  Your path is your path.
5. Your Victim Mindset:  This one hurts because it’s comfortable to sit in your little victim chair.  Nothing ever works out for me.  Guess what?  If you keep narrating your life like a tragedy, you’ll never live a victory.  Life has already punched you, but staying down is a choice.  Eliminate that habit of rehearsing your sob story.  
6. Pointless Arguments:  You don’t need to prove yourself in every debate.  Someone thinks the Earth is flat.  Fine.  Let them take a cruise off the edge.  Every minute you waste arguing with fools is time you could have used to build your empire.  Eliminate the urge constantly to be right.  At the end of the day, being at peace is better than being correct.  
7. Clutter You Don’t Even Notice: We’re referring to mental clutter here.  Junk you will deal with later is just noise.  Eliminate it.  The more clutter you keep, the more your brain thinks life is chaos.  Want mental clarity?  Start deleting.
8. Fake Urgency:  You thought you had to respond to every text in 30 seconds?  Wrong.  People have trained you to be available like a customer service hotline, and you believed it.  Stop being available to every request that isn’t urgent.  Most urgent things will fix themselves if you just wait.
9. The Habit of Overthinking: Most people tend to overthink small things.  Stop.  Fear is just pretending to be smart.  It doesn’t solve problems; it multiplies them.  Eliminate the habit by making fast decisions.  This applies to even small things.  The less you overthink, the more you actually live.  
10. People Pleasing:  The disease of yes.  Saying yes to things you hate, places you don’t want to go, people you don’t even like, all because you’re scared to upset someone. That’s not kindness.  That’s self-betrayal.  Quietly kill this habit.  Start saying no.  Let people call you rude, selfish; they’ll get over it.  

Life isn’t about adding more; it’s about removing what doesn’t serve you. Most people spend their entire lives hoarding toxic habits, fake friendships, old regrets, and useless distractions. Then they wonder why they feel stuck, empty, and drained. But the strong ones, the people who truly rise above, don’t carry dead weight. They eliminate it quietly, ruthlessly, and without apology.

Your peace, focus, and energy are the most valuable currencies you have. Every time you allow negativity into your life or tolerate nonsense that doesn’t belong, you’re spending the only currency that truly matters. Removing these 10 things will not only lighten your life; it will sharpen your mind, boost your confidence, and clarify your path.

Success doesn’t come from nonstop effort. It originates from caring for the environment where your mind and soul reside. So, starting today, stop waiting for approval. Stop stressing over who may be offended when you put yourself first. Make changes quietly. Rebuild quietly. And watch how people suddenly don’t recognize you anymore. Because you’ll be moving differently, talking differently, and carrying yourself with a strength they can’t touch.

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Please read my books:

1. “55 Rules for a Good Life,” on Amazon (link here).
2. “Our Longest Year in Iraq,” on Amazon (link here).