These are excerpts from the author’s book “Deep,” which contains eight of his small books published in the form of Wisdom Literature covering different aspects of life: Facing troublemakers, dealing with pain, personal financial issues, gastronomy, reading, criticizing, inspiring, and feeling always good to go.

Series 2: You Are Always Good to Go.

Week 30: Whom and What to Avoid?

• Avoid avoidance.

• Don’t waste your time thinking how to avoid unwanted people or undesirable situations. There is always a good way to deal with a worst-case scenario.

• Prepare the best scenario for the worst case.

• Being ready and showing that you are always ready push others to initiate avoidance.

• You cannot completely avoid everything around you. But you can certainly control your involvement in anything.

• Better than obsessing about avoiding making previous mistakes, focus on seeing new opportunities even within the same previous actions.

• Avoid delaying.

• Do not let others control your progress by intentionally avoiding you. Force them to confront you or look for other alternatives, and adopt the most suitable ones.

• Continuously frustrating people deserve worse than avoidance. Remove them from your way.

• Avoid unstudied risks.

• Remember that life is not always packages of options. There are many experiences that you will not like but must do.

• When you cannot avoid a challenge, face it with a smart mind and a brave heart.

• Your distinguished achievements are not always what you have deliberately chosen to do.

• Believe in your choices and in your destiny on the same level as it is quite hard to distinguish between them.

• It is good to acknowledge that you have learned a lot from experiences you were forced to go through, and that you even liked some of them.

• Your choices are your pleasant friends. Your obligations are your tough mentors.