Intuitively, you already know that the best stuff in life isn’t stuff at all, and that relationships, experiences, and meaningful work are the staples of a happy life. You don’t need anything more to be happy. Patience is your willingness to accept and appreciate what you have right now, while you gradually work hard for the dreams and goals that matter most to you. Patience is the realization that the quality of your life in the long run is much more significant than the quantity of things you fill it with today. It means doing your very best with the resources available to you, while understanding that the results you seek are worth the required time and effort, and not available elsewhere for any less time and effort. Patience does not mean waiting and doing nothing. The stronger you grow and become, the better your life will feel in the long run. Make it a priority to learn and grow a little bit every day by building positive rituals and sticking to them. Start investing in yourself mentally and physically. Yes, your life will get better when YOU get better. Your results come from what you actually try and do consistently! Because the results you achieve in life are NOT based on what you plan to do or what you say you’ll do. So keep reminding yourself that in the end there’s only one thing that makes a goal or dream impossible to achieve: the failure to try. Every outcome, good or bad, is a lesson that makes you stronger and wiser over time. Even mistakes and failures teach you what not to do next time. Trying - truly trying - always leads to some level of success, regardless of the outcome. It’s not the mistakes and failures you have to worry about the most, it’s the opportunities you miss when you don’t even try that hurt the worst. Not trying is why most people fail in life. Many people who appear to be too old and uncool were once every bit as young and hip and inexperienced as you are right now. Many people who appear to be wealthy are in debt because of their extravagant tastes for material possessions. Many people you think have it easy have worked their tail off to achieve their status. Many people you believe to be successful are extremely unhappy. When you believe you do, realize that your assumptions about their life are in direct relation to your own limited perspective. You will never know exactly what another person is going through or what their whole story is. Your judgments of others are often inaccurate. (Note: Angel and I discuss this in detail in the Relationships chapter of our book, “1,000 Little Things Happy, Successful People Do Differently”.) 2. Today is the day to express your love and admiration. If you appreciate someone today, tell them. They deserve to know I think the world of them.īottom line: If you love someone today, tell them. They deserve to know they give meaning to my life. I vowed to myself then and there that I would never again hesitate to speak up to the people I love and remind them of how much I appreciate them. He was such a wonderful person.” I started crying too, and I wondered if these people had told him that they loved him while he was alive, or whether it was only with death that this powerful word, love, had been used without question or hesitation. During his funeral several people from the office were in tears, saying kind things like: “I loved him. You might not have tomorrow to say, “I love you.”Ībout 15 years ago a coworker of mine died in a car accident on the way to work. That was a huge wake-up call for me - one that has served me well for over two decades now.Īnd here are eight wake-up calls for YOU - some important life lessons worth learning before it’s too late: 1. Today, I still regret the little thing I didn’t say when I had the chance: “Thank you Grandpa. The flannel shirts were the last gifts he ever gave me, and that crooked half-smile was the last time I directly acknowledged him. My grandfather died two days later from a sudden heart attack. I looked at him skeptically, gave him a crooked half-smile, and moved on to the other gifts sitting in front of me. Unfortunately, I thought they were odd gifts at the time and I wasn’t thankful. The shirts were barely worn and in great shape my grandfather told me he thought they would look great on me. Take them and make the best of things right now.įor my 18th birthday, many moons ago, my grandfather on my mom’s side gave me four lightly-used flannel shirts that he no longer needed. You’ve come a long way, and you’re still learning and growing.
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