I've been making mistakes for years.

Here are 15 tried and true ways of making an absolutely breathtaking mess of your life.

Beliefs

• Believe you're the smartest person in the room

• Believe you don't have much to learn

• Believe the world revolves around you

Money

• Spend a lot and fail to save

• Save a lot and fail to enjoy

• Make a lot and blow it all on yourself

Relationships

• Make them all about you

• Assume your way is best

• Only hang out with people who think exactly like you do

Assumptions

• Assume the future won't surprise you

• Assume that bad thing will never happen

• Assume there's no need to prepare for the unexpected

Work

• Focus entirely on your success and no one else's

• Allow your boss to define your value

• Allow your work to affect your happiness

And more...

Trust me, this is only the beginning:

• Have a dream? Be content to just keep thinking about it

• Have a bad habit? Be content to change it someday

• Have a secret? Believe it'll never hurt anyone else

• Have some friends? Take them for granted

• Have a problem? Never ask for help

There are plenty more where that came from.

The point

Of all the mistakes I've made?

There's one that covers 99% of the rest.

Stop growing.

• Assume you know it all

• Assume you're good to go

• Assume you've nailed it

Avoid that?

I'll bet you'll live a pretty rich life.

Failures and all.