<p><b data-redactor-tag="b">In this article we will learn</b></p><p>-<b data-redactor-tag="b">15 reasons why Art of Ignoring and Developing Thick-skin of right-type is most essential for you to learn and practice everyday</b></p><p>-<b data-redactor-tag="b"> If you agree - Life is tough - then choose the Correct Tough and Hard from these 15 example areas </b></p><p>-<b data-redactor-tag="b">39 things you need to learn to ignore and develop a thick-skin for - meaning neither you bother about these nor should you let these bother you</b></p><p>-<b data-redactor-tag="b">19 things should never ignore</b></p><p>-<b data-redactor-tag="b">69 Tips to Learn and Master the art of ignoring and developing thick skin strategically</b></p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">Master the powerful art of ignoring people and things</b><b data-redactor-tag="b"></b></p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">What's the secret to living a peaceful and fulfilling life - You must Master the Art of Ignoring.</b></p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">15 reasons why Art of Ignoring and Developing Thick-skin of right-type is most essential for you to learn and practice everyday</b></p><ul><li>1.By ignoring the noise, the non-essentials, the distractions, the toxic environment and toxic people and what is neither important nor helpful - we can create space for things that we love and which will uplifts us mentally, emotionally and physically.</li> <li>2.To practice and master this art of ignoring - we have to develop crucial understanding to discern WHOM and WHAT to ignore and WHOM and WHAT not to ignore - both are equally important.</li> <li>3.When we become totally thick skinned - we don't get emotionally overwhelmed and our self-worth, self-esteem etc. - does not get crushed by the anger, the criticism, the insults and all the tactics others use to pull us down and belittle us</li> <li>4.But the Negative side of being completely thick-skinned - is that - you ignore, allow and accept - even verbal, emotional and physical abuse.</li> <li>5.When someone's anger, criticism or behavior is meant to hurt - it is NOT OK under any circumstance - and should be dealt in the right, empowering and positive ways.</li> <li>6.When your real well-wishers - show anger or criticizes you [maintaining the basic respect AND - have the focus of helping you] - then having thick skin can make you listen, understand and take action - without getting hurt, sad or depressed.</li> <li>7.Many times - all of us give silent-treatment and ignore the people whom we love most - but very few realize - the hurts we have caused.</li> <li>8.Although all of us have experienced the horrible feelings - when we are IGNORED by our loved ones.</li> <li>9.Many times - this skill and habit of ignoring things and people - if used properly - can be the best and the most effective way to protest and show our displeasure.</li> <li>10. The trick and the art lies in knowing where to draw the line.</li> <li>11. There are two ways to ignore people or things - First is the negative way - many people use this way to hurt - which is intentional and planned - and has to be avoided </li> <li>12. The second when we ignore things and people - to avoid unnecessary quarrels, arguments plus to avoid hurts, resentment and sadness in yourself [THIS is WHAT WE ARE FOCUSED ON in this article].</li> <li>13. The second way does not condone the wrongs done by others - but instead of getting into quarrel, fight or argument - we simply choose to ignore what they said and carry on with our life.</li> <li>14. It is definitely not easy - because - when someone insults us, demeans us or criticizes us - we get the instant urge to fight back, to settle the score, to teach a lesson and so on.</li> <li>15. But if you have experienced life's ups and downs both - you will find that - in the long run many of the things we lose peace for PLUS fight and quarrel about - actually does not create bliss, contentment and happiness</li></ul><p>That is why we are going to learn what we can ignore and what should not be ignored at all</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">If you agree - Life is tough - then choose the Correct Tough-n-Hard from these 15 example areas - </b>I have given <b data-redactor-tag="b">two tough choices in the following 15 areas in each sentences</b> [you can other areas to this list].</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">It will be tough and hard in both the choices</b> - But if you want your life to be more satisfying, more fulfilling, happier and more successful - <b data-redactor-tag="b">you need to choose the right-tough.</b></p><ul><li>1.Sulking and not let others know about your expectations is easy - telling them frankly in the correct manner is tough</li> <li>2.Not claiming your right is easy - knowing and asking for your rights is tough</li> <li>3.Maintaining relationship is tough – living alone and lonely is even tougher</li> <li>4.Blaming others, making excuses, justifying is easy – taking ownership and full responsibility is very tough</li> <li>5.Whiling-away time having fun is easy - Discipline is tough</li> <li>6.Being obese is easy as well as tough – exercising to remain fit is very-tough</li> <li>7.Not telling what you feel is easy – expressing yourself honestly is tough</li> <li>8.Asking tough questions is tough – not asking and living in ignorance is easy</li> <li>9.Spending is easy – earning and saving is very tough</li> <li>10. Studying is tough - playing is easy</li> <li>11. Finding solutions is tough - ignoring the problems is easy</li> <li>12. Working hard is tough – finding means to avoid work is easy [although needs creativity]</li> <li>13. Taking risks and making mistakes and failing is tough and accepting these is very-tough – BUT - the regret of not doing is tougher</li> <li>14. Getting into argument is easy to prove yourself right - is tough - not letting your EGO drive your motivation is tough</li> <li>15. Letting the misunderstanding continue is easy - taking initiative to resolve conflict is tough</li></ul><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">39 things you need to learn to ignore and develop a thick-skin for - meaning neither you bother about these nor should you let these bother you</b></p><ul><li>1.Avoiding trying to fix and change others - in any case except ruining relationships - it never works</li> <li>2.Planning for revenge [especially if you are submissive and people have hurt you or ill-treated you] - it is more hurtful and makes you toxic as well as is poisonous </li> <li>3.Ignore thinking about the remarks made by others over and over long-after for no reason - which make you feel bad about yourself </li> <li>4.Ignore the drama, the tantrum, the show-off and the outburst - that others make and create</li> <li>5.Avoid and ignore people who only come to you for gossip</li> <li>6.Avoid and ignore people who only feed you with negative things</li> <li>7.Ignore anything that makes you feel worthless </li> <li>8.Avoid and ignore people who make you feel as if you don't matter, your feelings does not exists and your rights have no value</li> <li>9.Avoid and ignore people who spread hatred and poison </li> <li>10. Avoid and ignore people who only criticize you for the purpose of feeling good themselves</li> <li>11. Ignore unsolicited advice, opinions and dictums - of others</li> <li>12. Instead of getting angry and shouting at others especially your kids and partners - learn the art of distracting AND learn the art of making them feel that you are least bothered by their behaviors, outburst, tantrums</li> <li>13. Avoid getting drawn into poisonous and value-less arguments</li> <li>14. Avoid any argument just for the sake of proving that you are right and other person wrong</li> <li>15. Ignore those who laugh at your dreams</li> <li>16. Ignore everything that makes you compromise with your values</li> <li>17. Ignore, avoid and get rid of all the toxic peoples from your life</li> <li>18. Ignore news-channels - if you happen to watch Indian-news channels for long - you would become the subject of asylum for criminally-ill</li> <li>19. Ignore political, religious discussions - where opposing opinions are expressed - and which eventually leads to fight and maybe violence</li> <li>20. Ignore trying to show-off how much you know</li> <li>21. Ignore distractions which takes your focus away from your highest of high-payoff activities</li> <li>22. Ignore the urge to prove yourself to others and to get their approval and validation for what you want to do</li> <li>23. Ignore the urge to please and satisfy everyone</li> <li>24. Ignore all that - which wastes your time, money and efforts - and does not add any value at all</li> <li>25. Ignore those who don't care for you</li> <li>26. Ignore what other people 'might' think of you</li> <li>27. Ignore the comparing with others - if it makes you feel - how lucky others are</li> <li>28. Ignore feeling sorry for yourself and wallowing in your sorrows</li> <li>29. Ignore sitting on your laurels - instead work on higher goals</li> <li>30. Ignore living a fake life - just to impress others</li> <li>31. Ignore the soap operas that runs for years OR the celebrity shows</li> <li>32. Don't bother about - what you don't have any control over and is beyond your area of influence </li> <li>33. Ignore the failure and mistakes - after you have learned and taken the lessons</li> <li>34. Ignore the hurt by cause by others by forgiving them</li> <li>35. Avoid thinking about those people - who wronged you</li> <li>36. Ignore the hurtful remarks of others</li> <li>37. Ignore the overthinking - especially if it paralyses you with inaction and indecision </li> <li>38. Ignore the urge and the internal voice telling you to check on your ex's social posts</li> <li>39. Ignore begging for love and care and understanding - if you don't get reciprocations from people you have gone out of your ways</li></ul><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">19 things you should never ignore</b></p><ul><li>1.Your physical, Mental, emotional health and wellbeing</li> <li>2.Your priorities</li> <li>3.Your passions</li> <li>4.Your values</li> <li>5.Your loved ones</li> <li>6.People who care for you</li> <li>7.Those who contributed meaningfully and positively in your life</li> <li>8.People who stood by you - when you were going through tough times</li> <li>9.The lessons from your mistakes and failures</li> <li>10. The blessings in your life</li> <li>11. Your Self-care</li> <li>12. Learning, unlearning and relearning</li> <li>13. Reinventing yourself, rediscovering yourself and connecting with yourself</li> <li>14. Your focus on growth of yourself and people connected with you</li> <li>15. Your proactive embracing of change</li> <li>16. Your moving-on after crisis</li> <li>17. Your bad-habits and weaknesses - which pull you down - for the purpose of working on them</li> <li>18. Your etiquettes, manners and behaviors - to ensure that they are classy</li> <li>19. Your self-worth</li></ul><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">69 Tips to Learn and Master the art of ignoring and developing thick skin strategically</b></p><ul><li>1.Learn to identify, prioritize and focus on your most important needs </li> <li>2.Identify what makes you distracted - from pursuing your important goals - generally - work out ways to not to let that affect you</li> <li>3.Identify and acknowledge what is distracting you - right-now at this moment -then make concerted effort to block it out - to create focus on your most important priorities</li> <li>4.But if what is distracting you is important - first find the solution to that nagging concern and then come back to your most important tasks and priorities</li> <li>5.Understand that - It's not all about you all the time - this is the most basic understanding to avoid feeling hurt and disappointed</li> <li>6.Don't take things personally - many times we have to interpret a person's bad behavior by - actually believing that they might be having a bad time - which is triggering their nastiness</li> <li>7.Identify which people and which situations and which behaviors - irritates you and make you lose your cool and blow-up</li> <li>8.Understand that for success and every meaningful things in life - all of us have to face criticism, rejections and failures</li> <li>9.Learn to get yourself up after you have been hit - then move on</li> <li>10. All worthwhile things will make you fail and fall numerous times - this is part of the growth and progress process - so don't be discouraged if it takes you a few times to get it right</li> <li>11. Never stop trying - experiment, create newer ways, try radically different approaches and perspectives</li> <li>12. Learn to solve problems creatively</li> <li>13. When something does not work - pivot, improvise, rethink and then apply the new solutions</li> <li>14. Focus more on actions - rather than on the outcomes</li> <li>15. Never mind looking stupid - if you don't know something - accept that and then go find the answer - if it is essential</li> <li>16. Learn to respond and not react on impulse to people and situation without thinking through</li> <li>17. Avoid blaming and making excuses</li> <li>18. Take full responsibility for your actions and decisions</li> <li>19. Do you ever feel hurt by what people say about you - accept that like you - other people too have their ups and downs</li> <li>20. You will be amazed by how quickly you get upset over minor things - once you realize this and start thinking about your major goals - it works wonders</li> <li>21. But when you get upset by others - you are giving power to them - to control you the way they want AND your outburst may not have any impact or effect on them whatsoever</li> <li>22. Never Shy Away From Confronting for the right causes and reasons</li> <li>23. Stop taking sh*t from others - but learn to do it in most empowering ways - so that later you don't feel bad</li> <li>24. Sometime there is a reason for the bad behavior of others - understand that others are also competing for attention, love, money, jobs - like you do</li> <li>25. Express Yourself honestly - without hurting others by polishing the art of communicating in the suave and classy manner</li> <li>26. Challenge your perceptions and assumptions all the time - to get the correct perspective</li> <li>27. Work on yourself and your larger than life dreams </li> <li>28. Stop expecting to Be Liked by Everyone - it is neither healthy nor possible and desirable</li> <li>29. Focus on being respectable by doing the right things </li> <li>30. Learn to overcome the insecurities which make you do things to be popular</li> <li>31. Listen intently to the criticism of others - without interrupting - and without reacting defensively</li> <li>32. Thank them for their feedback</li> <li>33. Don't take criticism to heart - it is not always your sh*t</li> <li>34. Stop taking rejection personally - identify f you need to learn and improve yourself to win next time</li> <li>35. Calibrate your expectations from yourself and set it at realistic level</li> <li>36. Minimize your expectations from others </li> <li>37. Focus your attention back to what's within your control.</li> <li>38. Put efforts in taking actions - which would take you closer to your goals</li> <li>39. Work on something that resonates with you and makes your passions grow</li> <li>40. Identify - who are the people whose opinions and judgment you should respect most AND pay attention to</li> <li>41. There are people who take pleasure in criticizing - remember that this is their reaction to their own emotional and other insecurities - These people are incapable of creating anything meaningful of their own.</li> <li>42. Use the negative energy of anger generated by criticism as your motivation to channelize this energy to create momentum of your own</li> <li>43. Use the following 9 ways to create a meaningful, fulfilling creative life - as it demands and needs hard work and tough decisions and right actions from you</li> <li>I.Separate fact from interpretation.</li> <li>II.Nurture your important and close relationships.</li> <li>III.Find meaning in your life.</li> <li>IV.Prioritize your self-care.</li> <li>V.Be Vulnerable</li> <li>VI.Trust yourself</li> <li>VII.Express yourself</li> <li>VIII.Learn how to fall</li> <li>IX.Practice silence – You don't have to respond to everything people say or do.</li> <li>X.Actively invite more criticism into your life ask others their opinion</li> <li>XI.Break out of your comfort zones</li> <li>44. Pay attention to things that offend you - think why they offend you - Identify your exaggerating thinking patterns - then learn to ignore them as they are worthless</li> <li>45. Find someone you can open up to - to share and vent your feelings</li> <li><a name="mentally-strong"></a>46. Acquire skills which help you get over your own emotional insecurities</li> <li>47. Avoid seeing crises as insurmountable problems - Take decisive actions.</li> <li>48. Look for opportunities for self-discovery - Nurture a positive view of yourself.</li> <li>49. Ask yourself - What types of events have been most stressful for you and How have those events impacted you - What have you learned about yourself during difficult times</li> <li>50. Develop resilience and become Flexible - so as not to let failures, disappointments, irritations, criticism sick to you</li> <li>51. Experience and feel your strong emotions - both negative as well as positive ones - then find out when you may need to put under continue functioning effectively</li> <li>52. Instead of ignoring the problems take action to deal with them</li> <li>53. Reenergize yourself by taking break and vacations regularly</li> <li>54. Spend time with loved ones who offer support and encouragement; nurture yourself.</li> <li>55. Rely on others but also know when to rely on yourself.</li> <li>56. Identify if you are Too Sensitive</li> <li>57. Do you react extremely negatively when someone makes a passing comment about you</li> <li>58. Write down your feelings - Figure out what makes you sensitive - Identify when you overthink and magnify THEN create strategies to deal with them in future better</li> <li>59. We have develop a thicker skin without being obnoxious, insensitive and mean</li> <li>60. Work on your self-esteem, self-confidence, self-worth, self-pride - on regular basis</li></ul><p><br> <br> </p><p>#whatisartofignoringthingsandpeople, #whyweneedtolearntoignorecertainthingsandpeople, #whytodevelopathickskin, #lifeishard, #whyshouldbechoosethecorrectbattle, #whatweshouldnotbotherabout, #whatweshouldnotletbotherus, #benifitsofhavingthickskin, #developingthepositivetypeofthickskin, #whomandwhattoignore, #howignoringcertainpeoplemakesusgrow, #whatwhenwhomweshouldnotignore, #avoidgettingemotionallyoverwhelmed, #handlecriticismcalmly, #givingsilenttreatmenthurts, #whenwegetignoredwefeelhorrible, #howtocreateblisscontentmentandhappiness, #<b data-redactor-tag="b">secretoflivingpeacefulandfulfillinglife, </b><span>#facingrejectiontherightway, #avoidpleasingothers, #stopbeingdefensivewhencriticized, #dotherightthingstoptryingtobepopular, #berespectablenotpopularnadfamous, #masteringtheartofignoringstrategically, #howtomakeignoringothershelpus, #howtodevelopathickskin, #developthickskinwithoutbeingobnoxious, #Workonyourselfesteemselfconfidenceselfworthselfpride, #waystoignoreandavoidthingsandpeople </span></p>