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How to be More Easygoing

How to be More Easygoing // eyeliner wings & pretty things

One of the last things someone would call me is easygoing. Or quiet, it depends on who you ask. I’m not particularly difficult but I’m certainly not easygoing. If there’s a sudden plan thrown at me or things take a turn I didn’t prepare for, I’m usually visibly thrown. When I’m asked to do something that I don’t entirely want to do or had planned to do, I’ll definitely hesitate before saying, “Yes, I guess so.”

But, I’ve noticed I surround myself with easygoing people. The people closest to me have always responded to my plans and half-baked ideas with, “Okay, let’s do it!” They carry on with nothing less than enthusiasm and easygoingness. There’s this theory that we become a mix of the five people we’re closest to and, while I don’t entirely believe it, I have found that people I love the most have qualities I admire. I wish I was as positive and enthusiastic about spontaneous plans and things I’m unsure of. So, in typical fashion, I’m writing an advice sort of post that’s also directed toward myself. From what I’ve observed and researched, here’s how to be more easygoing or at least here’s how to start the journey towards becoming just that.

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10 Ways You’re Sabotaging Yourself & How to Stop

10 Ways You're Sabotaging Yourself & How to Stop // Self Improvement, self help - eyeliner wings & pretty things

As always, a new year brings in a ton of self-reflection and resolutions, which inspired me to write this post. I was thinking about a lot of things I hope to change in the new year (which is a load of crap because you can just change whenever a new year is not necessary) and I thought, why not make it into a post? A lot of the things I’d like to improve on turned out to be things that are, in a way, sabotaging myself and my own happiness.

So, once again, here I am giving advice that I should also be taking. I need to stop giving good advice that I won’t take…definitely counting that as an unofficial number eleven on this list. Hopefully, if these are also ways you’re sabotaging yourself, you’ll make these changes with me.

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13 Things to Stop Doing This Year

13 Things to Stop Doing This Year - How to Be a Better Person // eyeliner wings & pretty things

Ah yes, New Year’s Resolutions, just another way to disappoint yourself and pretend to actually be productive. Instead of resolving to do things, why not attempt to stop doing negative things instead? These things to stop doing this year are sure to brighten your life and make it better, plus, they sound a lot better than making a New Year’s Resolution.

I very clearly recall making new resolutions each year, keeping them diligently throughout January, but then forgetting or giving up by February. I don’t know what it is about the new year that causes everyone to thirst for a fresh start, but sometimes it might be easier to cut down on the bad rather than attempt to add on the good. These things to stop doing this year are sure to brighten your life and make it better, plus, they sound a lot better than making a New Year’s Resolution.

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12 Ways To Be Less Of An Asshole

How to be Less Of An Asshole // 12 ways to be loss of an asshole - ew & pt

Title got your attention, didn’t it? I debated on sweetening the title or maybe censoring it a little bit but there are so many things to be offended by on the Internet if someone is deeply offended by my using the word “asshole” in a post on my tiny little sector of the web, um, I guess they wouldn’t click on this in the first place, would they? If they did, maybe they’re a bit of a masochist.

There’s not really a better way to phrase it because frankly I don’t take the word “jerk” or “meanie” seriously and the word “bitch” is far too gendered (that’s a whole other story). Frankly there’s no word that has quite the widespread connotation as “asshole.” It’s universal. I’m already being a bit of an asshole in my introduction alone, whoops. I’m losing my credibility as a reliable narrator but I promise I’ll win it back in the next paragraph.

Perhaps you don’t consider yourself to be an asshole and maybe you aren’t one, but there are definitely habits you (and me, definitely me) can take on or end to be less of an asshole in general. Basically here are some ways to make the world a little bit of a better place, here’s how to be less of an asshole. I’m not preaching, I swear, I’m guilty of many of these things.

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