Turning 25 is a year of many milestones. You are now a true adult who is expected to hold a job, have completed at least your graduation if not your masters. While a lot of things are expected of you, there are a few you should expect out of yourself as well. Here’s a list of habits and things you should let go off by the time you reach 25. Because you might feel like a kid, but you’re not. You’re closer to 30 now than you are to 18. 

1. Binge-drinking your face off at open bars and making a complete fool out of yourself.

2. Thrift shopping, because the key to adulthood is--buy little but buy good. Shopping at Sarojini Nagar is affordable, but not sustainable.

3. Your entitlement. You don’t “deserve” something unless you have truly worked for it.

4. Believing in cheat days rather than having a balanced diet all throughout the year.

5. Believing that your body is okay without any physical activity.

6. Thinking that not responding to someone is sweeter than politely rejecting. 

7. Live in a bubble that everyone has “the one” assigned to them. No, sis!

8. Being proud of your attitude rather than fixing it.

9. Asking for money from your parents despite being employed. High time you became financially independent.

10. Financial independence also means it is high time you start investing and saving money for a rainy day. 

11. Wanting people to react or act the way you want them to.

12. Attaching yourself to your partner so much that you both are left with a MIA friend circle.

13. Being rude to someone because you don’t like them. Suck it up, girl, life is not your parents’ home.

14. Not tipping at parlours and restaurants.

15. Living your life on your parents’ terms.

16. Thinking that your clock is ticking and you need to get married.

17. Not packing a tiffin for work. You’re not just saving money, you’re getting up early and ensuring you eat home-cooked food.

18. Comparing anything in your life to that of friends and influencers on social media.

19. There is no pride in staying up late at night, except for some occasions.

20. Thinking short-term is the biggest hindrance to your goals. Have patience.

21. If you’re making excuses, then you probably didn’t want it that bad in the first place.

22. Don’t expect people to stick around if you cannot agree to let go of your controlling behaviour.

23. Your dependency on social media, phones, television and everything you while away hours at, because it is a form of addiction at the end of the day.

24. Delaying a task. Get your work done now so that you are free later and the next day, or even the whole week.

25. Overall give up on an unhealthy lifestyle all together--eat healthy, stay fit, think good. 









By Idiva

We all have good and bad days at work, right? But then working in an atmosphere where a coworker constantly keeps cribbing and complaining about work, the system, protocols, and bad management gets a tad difficult. We all have that one colleague who does it on a regular basis, making the environment toxic and intolerable.

Here we are with a few tips and tricks to tactfully deal with such coworkers without being rude.

1. Try talking to them and make them understand

If their constant cribbing is really bothering you and affecting your focus and performance at work, it’s advisable to have a chat with them about the same. Things are better when communicated. Perhaps, if you try to make them understand how it’s not helping them or the cause anyway and is affecting the rest and putting their morale and confidence down might do the trick.

2. Don’t give any reaction to constant cribbers
 
If the situation still doesn’t improve, ignorance is bliss. You stop responding to their constant complaints once or twice and pretend you are busy doing your work and too occupied to give a damn about the things going wrong, and you see the difference yourself. Trust us, this trick really helps you keep from unwanted extra fuss in life. The colleague will also realise when they stop getting any reaction from you or the rest every time they crib.

3. Don’t invest yourself in validating the complaints
At times, things do get unavoidable. So, what do you do in that case? You just smile and nod. The best you can do is to not invest yourself in trying to justify or validate their complaints, because you know it’s not going to serve the cause or make any difference to help improve the situation. 

4. Try to keep the conversations limited

This trick helps big time. The less opportunity you give them to interact with you, the more relieved you are from the constant grumbling. You know what we mean right? Talk about matters that are actually important and work related, and keep the conversation really short. 










By Idiva