How can I stop always wanting what I can't have?

When you look inside of you, and realise that you're worth much more than people who dont want you. When you are contented with what you have right now, and strive for what you can achieve. When you remember how much you tried to get that thing you cant have how much pain it gave you, and you promise to never let yourself feel that way again.That's when you stop wanting what you cant have.

Changing your way of thinking & perseption of life. As life is not as simple as black & white.None of us can always get who or what we want all the time.That's just life.Not because you don't deserve it,but because that's just life.

Maybe asking yourself and looking into the deeper underlying need those desires fill in you? Some times people prioritise things they can't have because they want to have control their disappointment - if you know you can't have it, you'll never been unexpectedly surprised when you can't have it. What are you wanting that you can't have - if they are things that boil down to more basic needs like validation, admiration, security and control - ask yourself why those things are so important to you. Maybe by fulfilling those needs in other ways you can stop wanting the other things too.

Remind yourself why you cannot have it. It will take practice but over time you will become more equipped on resisting the urge to have what you know you cannot have.

Start counting all the things you are grateful for every day :) Focus on what you have as you could lose it one day.

It is not wrong to want more, want something different but it should not be consuming. Grasping for more is natural and helps to reach for bigger things and can give the right drive to achieve awesome goals. But this should not be excessive and rather used with the right focus and ideas. Focus is most important to not lose control.

You can't. Human beings are greedy, if we already have all the things that we desire we just want more, and we'll just find more things to obsess about.

I think this really requires an attitude change. You have to focus on appreciating what you do have and making the most out of your situation. Some quotes I like that speak to this: "The grass is greener where you water it" and "The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything."

The thing is, you can't! There's always going to be something we can't have. You just have to accept it.

Stop looking at the belongings of other, stop comparing your life to someone else's and find happiness in your life right where you are.