Everyday, I'm posting a message on Twitter. That message will serve as the first (in bold) sentence for short written posts I have below.
We can wait forever for that perfect moment to come so we can pursue our dreams but that moment will never come.
The perfect moment never existed. It’s merely an excuse we make when we aren’t doing something. We say we are waiting for the right time. It’s a form of procrastination and this often stops us from turning a dream into reality. After all, we can wait all our lives and none of our dreams will ever come true.
A dream doesn’t just happen because we wish for it to happen. Vision is only part of the battle. Hard work and perseverance are the other key ingredients for success. Whenever we wait, we fail to take that necessary first step. The first step leads to the second step and that leads to the third step and so on. We cannot reach a destination if that first step never even took place.
We shouldn’t ever wait when it comes to pursuing our dreams. We all know that dreams don’t simply happen. It takes so much time and hard work that it’s only normal when the results, justifying why we took the first step, appear a few years after we started.
A dream requires such a vision from us because we don’t see it until much later. We can get impatient and see no changes. Yet, the changes really start from within us. Until we change ourselves, we cannot change our circumstances. This is no different from upgrading a computer so it can run the newest software.
There’s no better time to start than now. There are so many small changes we can adopt to prepare ourselves for the future opportunities. For those simply waiting, the opportunities will pass them by without them ever noticing. For those who start now, they will be ready to move to the next stage in their dreams through those opportunities.
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We can keep making excuses in our lives but those excuses don’t get us closer to our dreams.
We can come up with excuses so easily. If we break something in the house when we were young, we might blame our pets. If our project failed, we argue that we were working with incompetent people. We eventually get to the point where making an excuse becomes second nature.
Just as everything in life, we pay a price for things that come easy. Once making excuses become second nature, we give up too easily as soon as we arrive at an obstacle. We talk about all the big dreams we want to turn into reality but we lack the will to keep going. When the situation gets tough, we use excuses to justify why we are quitting.
Excuses sound great to those who make them but they also hurt the same person. Our greatest resource is time. We won’t stay young forever. The opportunities won’t wait for us ten years from now. And yet our excuses make us believe that we have another shot at our dream later in life.
It certainly takes practice for us to become less dependent on excuses. Making excuses is like a bad habit we all adopt from an early age and we all know how hard it is to break bad habits. Of course, we want to do more than just breaking our bad habits. We want to replace it with good habits.
The good habits involve us stop playing the blame game since excuses are methods we use to shift blame from ourselves to other people or circumstances that were out of our control. If we learn to stop blaming others and, instead, take charge in finding the solution to a problem, we’d get much further ahead in life.
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Appreciate your great resource, time, because you won’t be getting it back no matter how wealthy you become.
It’s so easy for us to neglect such a valuable resource, especially when we are young. We think we have all the time in the world and there’s always a tomorrow. When we start young, we carry the habit into our adulthood as we tell ourselves that we always have tomorrow.
The thing is nobody’s tomorrow, at least the one we anticipated, is guaranteed. Life throws some curved balls our way and our life is forever changed. A single car accident or the loss of a loved one can have profound impact on our world. The tomorrow we thought we had might be gone in an instant.
We also won’t be young forever. We have our eighteenth birthday once in our lifetime. Once we reached our peaks in various aspects, we start going downhill. We all heard about the story of older adults learning slower than their younger counterparts. There are exceptions to this rule but we cannot always pray that we are the exception.
It certainly doesn’t help that dreams take a long time to come true. Dreams are called dreams because they seem nearly impossible in reality. Goals worthy of being called dreams take years, if not decades, of hard work to come true. The later we begin, the later our dream comes to fruition.
Just as time flows in a single direction, we must also move forward. As tempting as it is to dwell on the past and wonder about the what ifs scenarios, we cannot change the past. Only the present is within our grasp and what we decide today changes what happens tomorrow and the years to come. When we appreciate our time, we are really investing into the present so a better future will be here.
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Don’t dwell on the past. Leave it behind you so you can invest in the present to build a better future.
We have all been there wondering about the what if scenarios. What if we asked the person out that night? What if I worked harder at school like my parents told me? What if I didn’t go to the party that changed my world forever?
We like to think about how the situation could’ve improved if we made a different decision back then. If our past changed, then so would our present. However, we cannot change our past. The past is history and, short of a time machine, we cannot ever change it.
While the past does possess a lot of important lessons, we must not let it occupy our lives. Whenever we live in the past, we are essentially unwilling to arrive at the present. Such a decision not only hurt ourselves but also those we love. For instance, a parent who is grieving over the loss of the spouse might neglect the children.
Instead of wasting time wishing for a machine that might not even work as intended, we need to take control of our present. We can make our decisions now like what we want to do with our lives and what sort of people we want to be with.
To avoid repeating the past where we made poor decisions, we can use our experiences to make better decisions and create a better future for ourselves. After all, a person born in poverty doesn’t have to stay in poverty as we’ve seen with more than a single rag to riches stories in our society.
When we can leave the past behind, nothing will stop us from moving forward towards a future we want. We have goals and dreams but, more often than not, the past hold us back from bringing them to fruition.
_____
Being born into a certain situation doesn’t mean we have to remain in that situation. We have the power to change our future.
While it’s true that we have little control over our birth, we certainly have more control of where our life goes from there. Not all of us are born into a wealthy and/or a loving family. Our childhood might not be as optimal as we hope it is. Many of us probably, at one point in our lives, wished we were one of our classmates because his or her family seemed so much nicer.
Our starting location in life can be a harsh one. Life might seem cruel and we wonder why we were dealt the bad hand while our friends and classmates got better draws. Being dealt a good hand early on doesn’t necessarily mean that it will remain that way. A harsher starting location might even work in our advantage.
When we experience hardship, we learn to appreciate the little things that actually matters the most in life. If we were loners in school for much of our childhood, we appreciate friends more because we experienced the days when we had no one there for us. If our family members aren’t very supportive of the pursuit of our dreams, we treasure the outsiders who see the talent and potential within us.
It’s far better to stumble early on in life because experience is our best teacher. We might have all that information on the internet but nothing hammers a lesson in better than getting a taste of it firsthand. A person reading about how to ride a bike, more often than not, learns slower than the person who is trying despite falling a number of times.
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The sooner you stumble in life, the sooner you’ll learn the important life lessons and the more time you’ll have to apply what you learned.
Stumbling in life is normal. We learn valuable lessons so we can go further in life. Most of us aren’t traveling the right path because our inexperience in life misleads us. The stumbles are there to right our mistakes as long as we learn from our mistakes. Without these stumbles, we’ll learn too late that we’ve been traveling the wrong path.
We might encounter some major setbacks in life like losing a job or getting kicked out of school. We all have this plan of how things should work out but things rarely follow those plans. The setbacks are there to remind us that we are doing something wrong. If we refuse to learn from our mistakes, we’ll continue doing the same thing wrong and not get the results we wanted.
When we were learning how to ride a bike, we didn’t let the falls stop us. Each of those falls is like a stumble and they teach us what we did incorrectly. Slowly but steadily, we learn what works and we eventually master it. Just as we learn how to bike through scrapes and bruises, we’ll also learn how to master other tasks through mistakes and failures.
The stumbles are really the stepping stones towards success. While it seems ironic that failures lead to success, this seems to be how the world works. We won’t find a single person possessing both maintained success and no failure or setback to speak of in their lives. Failure is indeed a key ingredient of success and the fear of it is often what stops people from ever finding what they desired.
_____
Failure is one of the key ingredients to success. Like all recipes, you cannot make the final product if you’re missing even one ingredient.
Failure is difficult to deal with. We feel like we reached the lowest point in our lives. We even reached a point where we fear failure. We want to avoid it so much that we play it safe, oftentimes too safe. We take no risks and, as a result, miss every single opportunity that comes our way. Afterwards, we wonder why nothing great happened in our lives.
The irony is failure being a key ingredient to success. We like to dream about finding success overnight with little work invested. We like to think we can win the lottery tomorrow and use that money to propel us to success. These sorts of events, however unlikely, do happen but the success tends to be short-lived as well.
Most people want success that lasts for the rest of their life. They aren’t happy with just a peak before descending back to being a nobody. Reaching success and maintaining success are two different things. Those we reach success easily will find that their success will go easily as well. Those who fought tooth and nails for their success will find their success staying indefinitely.
The main difference is the failures a person experienced. Failures help us mature and grow. They teach us valuable lessons so we know how to improve and what not to do. Most importantly, failures leave behind valuable knowledge that allows us to rebuild even if we lost everything. Those without failures in their lives lack the tools to replicate their success.
_____
We can wait forever for that perfect moment to come so we can pursue our dreams but that moment will never come.
The perfect moment never existed. It’s merely an excuse we make when we aren’t doing something. We say we are waiting for the right time. It’s a form of procrastination and this often stops us from turning a dream into reality. After all, we can wait all our lives and none of our dreams will ever come true.
A dream doesn’t just happen because we wish for it to happen. Vision is only part of the battle. Hard work and perseverance are the other key ingredients for success. Whenever we wait, we fail to take that necessary first step. The first step leads to the second step and that leads to the third step and so on. We cannot reach a destination if that first step never even took place.
We shouldn’t ever wait when it comes to pursuing our dreams. We all know that dreams don’t simply happen. It takes so much time and hard work that it’s only normal when the results, justifying why we took the first step, appear a few years after we started.
A dream requires such a vision from us because we don’t see it until much later. We can get impatient and see no changes. Yet, the changes really start from within us. Until we change ourselves, we cannot change our circumstances. This is no different from upgrading a computer so it can run the newest software.
There’s no better time to start than now. There are so many small changes we can adopt to prepare ourselves for the future opportunities. For those simply waiting, the opportunities will pass them by without them ever noticing. For those who start now, they will be ready to move to the next stage in their dreams through those opportunities.
______
We can keep making excuses in our lives but those excuses don’t get us closer to our dreams.
We can come up with excuses so easily. If we break something in the house when we were young, we might blame our pets. If our project failed, we argue that we were working with incompetent people. We eventually get to the point where making an excuse becomes second nature.
Just as everything in life, we pay a price for things that come easy. Once making excuses become second nature, we give up too easily as soon as we arrive at an obstacle. We talk about all the big dreams we want to turn into reality but we lack the will to keep going. When the situation gets tough, we use excuses to justify why we are quitting.
Excuses sound great to those who make them but they also hurt the same person. Our greatest resource is time. We won’t stay young forever. The opportunities won’t wait for us ten years from now. And yet our excuses make us believe that we have another shot at our dream later in life.
It certainly takes practice for us to become less dependent on excuses. Making excuses is like a bad habit we all adopt from an early age and we all know how hard it is to break bad habits. Of course, we want to do more than just breaking our bad habits. We want to replace it with good habits.
The good habits involve us stop playing the blame game since excuses are methods we use to shift blame from ourselves to other people or circumstances that were out of our control. If we learn to stop blaming others and, instead, take charge in finding the solution to a problem, we’d get much further ahead in life.
_____
Appreciate your great resource, time, because you won’t be getting it back no matter how wealthy you become.
It’s so easy for us to neglect such a valuable resource, especially when we are young. We think we have all the time in the world and there’s always a tomorrow. When we start young, we carry the habit into our adulthood as we tell ourselves that we always have tomorrow.
The thing is nobody’s tomorrow, at least the one we anticipated, is guaranteed. Life throws some curved balls our way and our life is forever changed. A single car accident or the loss of a loved one can have profound impact on our world. The tomorrow we thought we had might be gone in an instant.
We also won’t be young forever. We have our eighteenth birthday once in our lifetime. Once we reached our peaks in various aspects, we start going downhill. We all heard about the story of older adults learning slower than their younger counterparts. There are exceptions to this rule but we cannot always pray that we are the exception.
It certainly doesn’t help that dreams take a long time to come true. Dreams are called dreams because they seem nearly impossible in reality. Goals worthy of being called dreams take years, if not decades, of hard work to come true. The later we begin, the later our dream comes to fruition.
Just as time flows in a single direction, we must also move forward. As tempting as it is to dwell on the past and wonder about the what ifs scenarios, we cannot change the past. Only the present is within our grasp and what we decide today changes what happens tomorrow and the years to come. When we appreciate our time, we are really investing into the present so a better future will be here.
_____
Don’t dwell on the past. Leave it behind you so you can invest in the present to build a better future.
We have all been there wondering about the what if scenarios. What if we asked the person out that night? What if I worked harder at school like my parents told me? What if I didn’t go to the party that changed my world forever?
We like to think about how the situation could’ve improved if we made a different decision back then. If our past changed, then so would our present. However, we cannot change our past. The past is history and, short of a time machine, we cannot ever change it.
While the past does possess a lot of important lessons, we must not let it occupy our lives. Whenever we live in the past, we are essentially unwilling to arrive at the present. Such a decision not only hurt ourselves but also those we love. For instance, a parent who is grieving over the loss of the spouse might neglect the children.
Instead of wasting time wishing for a machine that might not even work as intended, we need to take control of our present. We can make our decisions now like what we want to do with our lives and what sort of people we want to be with.
To avoid repeating the past where we made poor decisions, we can use our experiences to make better decisions and create a better future for ourselves. After all, a person born in poverty doesn’t have to stay in poverty as we’ve seen with more than a single rag to riches stories in our society.
When we can leave the past behind, nothing will stop us from moving forward towards a future we want. We have goals and dreams but, more often than not, the past hold us back from bringing them to fruition.
_____
Being born into a certain situation doesn’t mean we have to remain in that situation. We have the power to change our future.
While it’s true that we have little control over our birth, we certainly have more control of where our life goes from there. Not all of us are born into a wealthy and/or a loving family. Our childhood might not be as optimal as we hope it is. Many of us probably, at one point in our lives, wished we were one of our classmates because his or her family seemed so much nicer.
Our starting location in life can be a harsh one. Life might seem cruel and we wonder why we were dealt the bad hand while our friends and classmates got better draws. Being dealt a good hand early on doesn’t necessarily mean that it will remain that way. A harsher starting location might even work in our advantage.
When we experience hardship, we learn to appreciate the little things that actually matters the most in life. If we were loners in school for much of our childhood, we appreciate friends more because we experienced the days when we had no one there for us. If our family members aren’t very supportive of the pursuit of our dreams, we treasure the outsiders who see the talent and potential within us.
It’s far better to stumble early on in life because experience is our best teacher. We might have all that information on the internet but nothing hammers a lesson in better than getting a taste of it firsthand. A person reading about how to ride a bike, more often than not, learns slower than the person who is trying despite falling a number of times.
____
The sooner you stumble in life, the sooner you’ll learn the important life lessons and the more time you’ll have to apply what you learned.
Stumbling in life is normal. We learn valuable lessons so we can go further in life. Most of us aren’t traveling the right path because our inexperience in life misleads us. The stumbles are there to right our mistakes as long as we learn from our mistakes. Without these stumbles, we’ll learn too late that we’ve been traveling the wrong path.
We might encounter some major setbacks in life like losing a job or getting kicked out of school. We all have this plan of how things should work out but things rarely follow those plans. The setbacks are there to remind us that we are doing something wrong. If we refuse to learn from our mistakes, we’ll continue doing the same thing wrong and not get the results we wanted.
When we were learning how to ride a bike, we didn’t let the falls stop us. Each of those falls is like a stumble and they teach us what we did incorrectly. Slowly but steadily, we learn what works and we eventually master it. Just as we learn how to bike through scrapes and bruises, we’ll also learn how to master other tasks through mistakes and failures.
The stumbles are really the stepping stones towards success. While it seems ironic that failures lead to success, this seems to be how the world works. We won’t find a single person possessing both maintained success and no failure or setback to speak of in their lives. Failure is indeed a key ingredient of success and the fear of it is often what stops people from ever finding what they desired.
_____
Failure is one of the key ingredients to success. Like all recipes, you cannot make the final product if you’re missing even one ingredient.
Failure is difficult to deal with. We feel like we reached the lowest point in our lives. We even reached a point where we fear failure. We want to avoid it so much that we play it safe, oftentimes too safe. We take no risks and, as a result, miss every single opportunity that comes our way. Afterwards, we wonder why nothing great happened in our lives.
The irony is failure being a key ingredient to success. We like to dream about finding success overnight with little work invested. We like to think we can win the lottery tomorrow and use that money to propel us to success. These sorts of events, however unlikely, do happen but the success tends to be short-lived as well.
Most people want success that lasts for the rest of their life. They aren’t happy with just a peak before descending back to being a nobody. Reaching success and maintaining success are two different things. Those we reach success easily will find that their success will go easily as well. Those who fought tooth and nails for their success will find their success staying indefinitely.
The main difference is the failures a person experienced. Failures help us mature and grow. They teach us valuable lessons so we know how to improve and what not to do. Most importantly, failures leave behind valuable knowledge that allows us to rebuild even if we lost everything. Those without failures in their lives lack the tools to replicate their success.
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