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Monday, 27 October 2014
10 truths about life that you forget easily
1. THE AVERAGE HUMAN LIFE IS
RELATIVELY SHORT.
We know deep down that life is short, and that death will
happen to all of us eventually, and yet we are infinitely
surprised when it happens to someone we know. It’s like
walking up a flight of stairs with a distracted mind, and
misjudging the final step. You expected there to be one
more stair than there is, and so you find yourself off balance
for a moment, before your mind shifts back to the present
moment and how the world really is.
LIVE your life TODAY! Don’t ignore death, but don’t be
afraid of it either. Be afraid of a life you never lived because
you were too afraid to take action. Death is not the greatest
loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside you while
you’re still alive. Be bold. Be courageous. Be scared to
death, and then take the next step anyway.
2. YOU WILL ONLY EVER LIVE THE LIFE
YOU CREATE FOR YOURSELF.
Your life is yours alone. Others can try to persuade you, but
they can’t decide for you. They can walk with you, but not
in your shoes. So make sure the path you decide to walk
aligns with your own intuition and desires, and don’t be
scared to switch paths or pave a new one when it makes
sense.
Remember, it’s always better to be at the bottom of the
ladder you want to climb than the top of the one you don’t.
Be productive and patient. And realize that patience is not
about waiting, but the ability to keep a good attitude while
working hard for what you believe in. This is your life, and
it is made up entirely of your choices. May your actions
speak louder than your words. May your life preach louder
than your lips. May your success be your noise in the end.
And if life only teaches you one thing, let it be that taking a
passionate leap is always worth it. Even if you have no idea
where you’re going to land, be brave enough to step up to the
edge of the unknown, and listen to your heart.
3. BEING BUSY DOES NOT MEAN BEING
PRODUCTIVE.
Busyness isn’t a virtue, nor is it something to respect.
Though we all have seasons of crazy schedules, very few of
us have a legitimate need to be busy ALL the time. We
simply don’t know how to live within our means, prioritize
properly, and say no when we should.
Being busy rarely equates to productivity these days. Just
take a quick look around. Busy people outnumber productive
people by a wide margin. Busy people are rushing all over
the place, and running late half of the time. They’re heading
to work, conferences, meetings, social engagements, etc.
They barely have enough free time for family get-togethers
and they rarely get enough sleep. Yet, emails are shooting
out of their smart phones like machine gun bullets, and their
day planners are jammed to the brim with obligations. Their
busy schedule gives them an elevated sense of importance.
But it’s all an illusion. They’re like hamsters running on a
wheel.
Though being busy can make us feel more alive than
anything else for a moment, the sensation is not sustainable
long term. We will inevitably, whether tomorrow or on our
deathbed, come to wish that we spent less time in the buzz of
busyness and more time actually living a purposeful life.
4. SOME KIND OF FAILURE ALWAYS
OCCURS BEFORE SUCCESS.
Most mistakes are unavoidable. Learn to forgive yourself.
It’s not a problem to make them. It’s only a problem if you
never learn from them.
If you’re too afraid of failure, you can’t possibly do what
needs to be done to be successful. The solution to this
problem is making friends with failure. You want to know
the difference between a master and a beginner? The master
has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.
Behind every great piece of art is a thousand failed attempts
to make it, but these attempts are simply never shown to us.
Bottom line: Just because it’s not happening now, doesn’t
mean it never will. Sometimes things have to go very wrong
before they can be right. (Read The Success Principles .)
5. THINKING AND DOING ARE TWO VERY
DIFFERENT THINGS.
Success never comes to look for you while you wait around
thinking about it.
You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.
Knowledge is basically useless without action. Good things
don’t come to those who wait; they come to those who work
on meaningful goals. Ask yourself what’s really important
and then have the courage to build your life around your
answer.
And remember, if you wait until you feel 100% ready to
begin, you’ll likely be waiting the rest of your life.
6. YOU DON’T HAVE TO WAIT FOR AN
APOLOGY TO FORGIVE.
Life gets much easier when you learn to accept all the
apologies you never got. The key is to be thankful for every
experience – positive or negative. It’s taking a step back and
saying, “Thank you for the lesson.” It’s realizing that
grudges from the past are a perfect waste of today’s
happiness, and that holding one is like letting unwanted
company live rent free in your head.
Forgiveness is a promise – one you want to keep. When you
forgive someone you are making a promise not to hold the
unchangeable past against your present self. It has nothing to
do with freeing a criminal of his or her crime, and everything
to do with freeing yourself of the burden of being an eternal
victim.
7. SOME PEOPLE ARE SIMPLY THE
WRONG MATCH FOR YOU.
You will only ever be as great as the people you surround
yourself with, so be brave enough to let go of those who keep
bringing you down. You shouldn’t force connections with
people who constantly make you feel less than amazing.
If someone makes you feel uncomfortable and insecure every
time you’re with them, for whatever reason, they’re probably
not close friend material. If they make you feel like you
can’t be yourself, or if they make you “less than” in any way,
don’t pursue a connection with them. If you feel emotionally
drained after hanging out with them or get a small hit of
anxiety when you are reminded of them, listen to your
intuition. There are so many “right people” for you, who
energize you and inspire you to be your best self. It makes
no sense to force it with people who are the wrong match for
you.
8. IT’S NOT OTHER PEOPLE’S JOB TO
LOVE YOU; IT’S YOURS.
It’s important to be nice to others, but it’s even more
important to be nice to yourself. You really have to love
yourself to get anything done in this world. So make sure
you don’t start seeing yourself through the eyes of those who
don’t value you. Know your worth, even if they don’t.
Today, let someone love you just the way you are – as
flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes
feel, and as incomplete as you think you are. Yes, let
someone love you despite all of this, and let that someone be
YOU. (ReadLove Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It .)
9. WHAT YOU OWN IS NOT WHO YOU
ARE.
Stuff really is just stuff, and it has absolutely no bearing on
who you are as a person. Most of us can make do with much
less than we think we need. That’s a valuable reminder,
especially in a hugely consumer-driven culture that focuses
more on material things than meaningful connections and
experiences.
You have to create your own culture. Don’t watch TV, don’t
read every fashion magazine, and don’t consume too much of
the evening news. Find the strength to fill your time with
meaningful experiences. The space and time you are
occupying at this very moment is LIFE, and if you’re
worrying about Kim Kardashian or Lebron James or some
other famous face, then you are disempowered. You’re
giving your life away to marketing and media trickery, which
is created by big companies to ultimately motivate you to
want to dress a certain way, look a certain way, and be a
certain way. This is tragic, this kind of thinking. It’s all just
Hollywood brainwashing. What is real is YOU and your
friends and your family, your loves, your highs, your hopes,
your plans, your fears, etc.
Too often we’re told that we’re not important, we’re just
peripheral to what is. “Get a degree, get a job, get a car, get
a house, and keep on getting.” And it’s sad, because
someday you’ll wake up and realize you’ve been tricked.
And all you’ll want then is to reclaim your mind by getting it
out of the hands of the brainwashers who want to turn you
into a drone that buys everything that isn’t needed to impress
everyone that isn’t important.
10. EVERYTHING CHANGES, EVERY
SECOND.
Embrace change and realize it happens for a reason. It won’t
always be obvious at first, but in the end it will be worth it.
What you have today may become what you had by
tomorrow. You never know. Things change, often
spontaneously. People and circumstances come and go. Life
doesn’t stop for anybody. It moves rapidly and rushes from
calm to chaos in a matter of seconds, and happens like this to
people every day. It’s likely happening to someone nearby
right now.
Sometimes the shortest split second in time changes the
direction of our lives. A seemingly innocuous decision
rattles our whole world like a meteorite striking Earth. Entire
lives have been swiveled and flipped upside down, for better
or worse, on the strength of an unpredictable event. And
these events are always happening.
However good or bad a situation is now, it will change.
That’s the one thing you can count on. So when life is good,
enjoy it. Don’t go looking for something better every
second. Happiness never comes to those who don’t
appreciate what they have while they have it.
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