The media loves to share the feel-good, inspiring rags to riches stories. However, what they often fail to report about is the blood, sweat, and tears that went into achieving said success. Like life in general, success is no fairytale.
7 Brutal Facts That Will Make You Get Your Life Together
A lion doesn’t lose sleep over the opinion of sheep.
I can almost guarantee you that when you share your goals and dreams with friends and family, there will always be at least one negative nelly that thinks you should forget your ‘daydream’ and instead seek a nine to five job working for someone else. If everyone listened to such people, there would be very few successful brands and empires.
Let go of caring what others think. Focus on the steps you need to take to make your dream a reality. Trust me; those people will always be the first to gush about how they always believed in you when you make it. Sigh. You have nothing to prove to anyone except for yourself.
Without goals, you’re wandering around lost.
”If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein.
The majority of people you connect with in your life are temporary. It’s a sad fact of life, but the sooner you accept this, the happier you’ll be. You cannot tie your life to people or things.
If you’re not working towards specific goals or aspirations, you’re merely existing. Without direction, how can you ever get where you want to be? You have to set goals and work at slaying them every day until you’ve nailed them.
Actions speak louder than words.
A dream caged in your brain isn’t going anywhere. You have to take steps to make that dream a reality. It’s unlikely a magical opportunity will randomly drop out of the sky that just happens to make your business an overnight success. You need to get out there and kick open the necessary doors to create lots of opportunities.
Love your loved ones.
We have to love and cherish our loved ones because one day God is going to need them back. Yes, it’s heartbreaking, but it’s another fact of life. That’s why it’s so important to take every opportunity to spend quality time with our loved ones.
You’ll fail tons of times before you succeed.
Many of the most celebrated entrepreneurs in the world honor their success to the lessons they learned from every failure. No one likes losing, but every experience teaches you a valuable lesson which will help build the knowledge and wisdom you need to succeed.
Learn to let it go.
We cannot control life, or the people we choose to journey through life with. Those that accept this will be much happier. The same way you can’t make someone love you, you can’t dictate to the universe precisely how you would like your life to play out. Learn to let it go.
Worrying is pointless. We all get nervous about significant life milestones, but anxiety is one of the worst joy-sucking vampires. You’ll only cause yourself stress, and likely create an unfavorable energy field around a situation by focusing so much negative energy on it.
Life is about making memories.
When you’re old and reflecting back on your life, you won’t regret the fact you didn’t buy more things. You’ll likely regret not having taken the opportunity to create more memories with loved ones. Check out this blog on the scientific key to happiness. Hint: it’s not related to things.
