Ever Knew those ‘Best’ Life Advices? Well, We’ve Curated Them For You!
Life is one word that comes with multiple meanings and experiences. Above all life is not just about existence but also about how an individual defines that existence. Hence, it is important to look at life not just from one single perspective. Philosophers, scholars, poets and authors have written much about what constitutes living and more importantly what are the necessary items that define someone’s life. Life is thus perhaps more than intriguing.
The Best Pieces of Life Advice I Have Ever Received! It’s now your turn to receive them today!
1. Whatever You Do — Give It 100%
Wherever you find yourself at work or in your personal life, do the very best you can do.
‘I can’t!’ I hear you say. I get it. You’re not in the job of your dreams and your boss keeps giving you mundane, unchallenging work — it’s hard to be motivated and give 100% to it in those circumstances. I know what it feels like to be in a job you don’t enjoy. I’ve been there. I’ve answered phones all day, sold promotional items in a supermarket and input mind-numbingly repetitive data into a computer.
Find ways to do it more efficiently. Find ways to make it more interesting. Find ways to improve it or automate it. Give care to even the smallest tasks. You’ll stand out if you do.
2. Forgive And Let Go
When we carry unforgiveness, it’s literally like taking a huge rock, putting it in a rucksack and carrying it on our back wherever we go.
It weighs us down — it saps our energy, our motivation and our enjoyment of life. It also causes us to perceive people and life through the lens of bitterness and anger — and we find ourselves getting offended and upset at many quite minor things that happen to us. It harms not only our relationships with friends and family, but also with colleagues and clients.
I know that the person who hurt you may not deserve your forgiveness. But forgiveness brings YOU freedom.
Nelson Mandela, a man with every reason to hold onto unforgiveness against his captors said, ‘As I walked out the door toward the gate that led to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.’
3. Read A Lot
Why is it a good idea to read a lot? Well, for one thing, you become smarter! Books give us access to some of the greatest minds and ideas that ever lived — we can learn from great people that we wouldn’t otherwise have access to any other way than through their books.
In the words of Jim Rohn, ‘The difference between where you are now and where you will be in five years time will be found in the quality of the books you’ve read.’
4. Don’t Ever Stop Learning And Growing As A Person
Don’t ever stop learning and growing as a person.
The more you learn and grow, the better your life will become.
Grow your current professional skill level.
If you continue to grow your level of skill in your chosen field, you’ll become a master at what you do.
You may have heard of the 10,000 hours rule — popularised by Malcolm Gladwell’s book ‘Outliers’. He stated that to achieve greatness in an area, you need to spend 10,000 hours of deliberate, focussed practice on developing your skill in that area.
5. Save A Portion Of Your Earnings And Avoid Credit Card Debt
Save a portion of your earnings and avoid credit card debt.
This is brilliant money advice and I wish I had heeded it earlier in life! Primarily because of the incredible power of the compound effect, whatever you save, with interest, accumulates more rapidly the earlier you start.
Credit card debt is simply the compound effect working against you! We buy something we badly want and couldn’t wait for — and a few months later when the ‘shininess’ and excitement of it has worn off, we’re still paying for it, often far more than the original price of it. Now, why do we do that?!
6. Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life.
I used to think that if my circumstances magically changed, then everything would be great. But then I discovered — it’s not the circumstances that were the problem.
There’s a phenomenon called the ‘snap-back’ effect. Because of it, regardless of what changes in our life — a change in income, change in relationship or environment — we will always revert back to what our self-image ‘tells’ us we deserve and what we expect from our life. Soon enough, our circumstances will change back to what we fundamentally believe about ourselves at a subconscious level.
It’s our thinking that determines what happens to us in life — not our circumstances.
7. Be Kind To People; Treat People As You Would Like To Be Treated.
This is one of the first principles Dale Carnegie teaches in his classic book, ‘How to win friends and influence people’.
Everyone loves to feel special. Everyone loves to be noticed. And if you care for people and treat them as the special people that they are, then they will love you for it.
This advice is summed up in the famous words of Zig Ziglar, “If you help enough people get what they want, then you will get what you want.”
Let me know what you’re going to do this week. And if you’ve received any brilliant life advice that has changed your life already, let me know in the comments below — I’d love to hear from you!
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