- Good things don’t happen to those who wait. Good things happen to those who work hard to make them happen while patiently waiting to reap what they saw.
Because waiting without taking any actions isn’t simply enough and will be nothing but fruitless waste of precious time.
Life was never meant to be fair. Which means that instead of remaining upset about how unfair something is to us, we need to accept it as yet another expected aspect of life and try our best to do something about it if we can.
Feeling sorry for yourself is not okay, having a compassion is. A lot of people often think of the two as the one and the same. However, truth it, they are distinctly different.
Feeling sorry for oneself does nothing but makes a person feel weak, pathethic and helpless. While having self-compassion means to accept oneself the way they are, with all the flaws and imperfections included.
In other words, first one will drag you down while the second one will give you strength to keep going. But essentially, the choice is yours to make so which one do you prefer?
- Others’ perceptions of you is not your responsibility. Some people will have a distorted, unfavorable image of you. While others will respect, admire and love you for who you are.
But there is only one person who truly knows you - you. You are the only one who is in control of your actions and words. So make sure they are harmoniously aligned with your core moral values and principles.
So do what you believe is the right thing to do without feeling anxious about whether or not others will approve your choices in life.
- There is no such a thing as the right time. Most of the time, we use “I’m just waiting for the right time” excuse to justify our hesitance and not to take any actions.
So if you avoid doing something because you think it is not the right time yet, you are deceiving yourself by believing your own crafted lie.
Because truth is, if you are waiting for a time when you’ll be 100% ready to do something, you’ll never be ready and your life will be over before you can grasp it.
- You are not the sum of your experiences and mistakes. While your experiences and mistakes definitely play a certain role in molding you into who you are, most often than not, it is you who has a say in it whether or not they will define your personhood.
You can always change yourself for the better, even if you faced many hardships and made lots of mistakes throughout your life. Remember that as long as you do your best, you can find the power within you to rise above them and mold yourself into the shape you designed for yourself.
Oftentimes, you can’t enjoy and be grateful for what you have because you are focusing on what you don’t.
If you keep living in the past, you will never be able to plan for the future.
Your perceptions create your own reality, so the gloomier perspective you have on your surroundings, the darker your life and world seems. By the same measure, the more often you choose to focus on positivity and little joys life offers, the brighter your life seems.
In life, nothing is constant; neither sadness, nor joy. Neither bad days, nor good days. Remember this to cheer yourself up a bit during bad days and to appreciate a fleeting happiness during good days.
