7 Harsh Truths That Will Improve Your Life
Truth hurts, but someone has to say it. Your life is what you make of it and the only person who can help you is yourself. If you’re ready to take personal responsibility and improve your life, I invite you to apply these seven harsh truths today.
1. No One Is Going to Fix You
If you are waiting for a knight in shining armor to gallop into your life and heal your broken heart, you will be waiting forever. The only person who can help you is yourself. Be happy for the other people in your life, but do not become dependent on them for happiness unlike you like to be on a never-ending emotional roller-coaster that is far beyond the realm of your control. Are you alone? No, far from it. But no one is going to fix you, so it is in your best interest to take personal responsibility for your own life. When you do that, you’ll discover you are more powerful than you ever thought possible.
2. Life Will Never Be Perfect
If you are waiting for the
“right” time to do something — pursue self-employment, begin a fitness
plan, dive into the dating pool, or move to a new town — you’re going to
be waiting forever. There is no such thing as a “right” time to do
anything. This reaction is based on your fear-of-change, plain and
simple. If you keep waiting for that mysterious “perfect time to act” (please tell me, when have you ever experienced such a thing?),
this means you will never actually have to take action and confront
your fear. Do the scary thing. You will be so glad you did.
3. You Might Fail (a Lot)
If you attempt to
achieve an ambitious new goal, then it is possible that you will fall on
your face while pursuing said goal. Welcome to reality. It’s time to
change your thinking about failure. It is not a big, bad thing that you
should be frightened of. Failure is a learning opportunity and nothing
more. If successful people quit pursuing their goal after failing the
first time they tried something new, then there would be approximately
zero successful people ever.
4. The Past Is Already Written
Have you ever made a mistake so monumental that you wish you could go back in time and do it all over again? Join the club. It’s called being human. I know you might feel immense regret, but beating yourself up over something that is already done serves no purpose. Shift your attention to the present, where you can take control of your life and move forward into a better future.
5. Tomorrow Is Not Guaranteed
The next time you catch yourself playing the “I will do it tomorrow”
game, remember that tomorrow is not guaranteed. Traffic accidents, heart
attacks, and acts of violence do happen. Live in the present and take
action today, because that is where progress happens.
6. Just Because You’re “Busy” Doesn’t Mean You’re Accomplishing Something
If
you like to brag about how great you are at multitasking, stop it,
because you are only kidding yourself. Changing tasks without rhyme or
reason is wasting your productivity, stressing you out, and possibly
causing you to make mistakes. It will probably take you longer to
complete two tasks that you are switching back-and-forth between than it
would to complete each one separately. If you want to save time,
instead of multitasking, try grouping similar tasks together. Have a
bunch of e-mails you need to send? Do them all at once. Have an article
or essay you need to write? Get it done before moving onto anything
else.
7. You Have More Time Than You Think You Do
You
should eliminate the phrase, “I don’t have the time,” from your
vocabulary, because it is profoundly untrue. There are 168 hours every
week. Let that sink in for a moment. That is a monumental amount
of time. Where could it possibly go? The average person spends 4.09
hours on leisure activities per day according to a survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Most of that time, 2.8 hours per day, is devoted to the television. I don’t know about you, but I don’t think watching TV does much to help me grow as a person. You could spend that time creating art that adds value to the world, reading books that will help you improve your life, or exercising for a better body and health. The next time you say you “don’t have the time,” change your wording to say “it isn’t a priority.” No time to exercise? Your fitness isn’t a priority.
Most of that time, 2.8 hours per day, is devoted to the television. I don’t know about you, but I don’t think watching TV does much to help me grow as a person. You could spend that time creating art that adds value to the world, reading books that will help you improve your life, or exercising for a better body and health. The next time you say you “don’t have the time,” change your wording to say “it isn’t a priority.” No time to exercise? Your fitness isn’t a priority.
source: www.lifehack.org
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