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Maturity is not just chronological. Here are 15 signs that an adult is still stuck thinking or acting like a 3-year-old.

A 3-year-old believes:

  1. If I do not want to do something, everybody will wait until I’m ready.

  2. I will always get a do-over.

  3. If you misunderstand me it is always your fault.

  4. Fair means that everyone gets the same no matter what they do, and it is even fairer when I get more for doing less.

  5. If I break it and hide it, nobody will ever know.

  6. To play nice means doing everything my way (conflict or problems are all your fault).

  7. If I make a mess, someone else will always clean it up.

  8. If I get into trouble, somebody else did it.

  9. Whatever I want is free and I should have it now.

10. If I don’t get what I want and now, my world will end.

11. It is always my job to tell everyone when anyone does something wrong.

12. No one can or will hurt me, except the monsters under my bed.

13. Something is worth the effort until it is effort, and then I just give up.

14. If I get bored I will just take a nap.

15. Dessert is always better before the meal.

Think grown-up thoughts for maximum success and happiness in business and in life. If you ever regress into one of these 15, choose to replace your thinking with mature beliefs, and leave here a better you.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 25th, 2006 at 11:46 pm and is filed under attitude, business, christianity, confidence & self-esteem, family, goals, humor, life philosophy, marriage, organization, parenting, people skills, personal development, productivity, relationships, success, wealth & income, work & career. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.