Most people like to believe talent, hard work, and luck are among the determining factors of success. For a long time I thought you only needed any two of them to be successful.
But, actually, if you want to be successful, and it doesn’t matter if all you want is to become a great dancer or actor or writer, or whether you want to pick up pretty girls in bars, you just have to be willing to make a fool out of yourself. Continue reading
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” – Norman Vincent Peale
Such a simple yet profound statement.
Shoot for the moon. Aim high in life, for there’s no point in playing it safe.
After all, you only have one life to live.
History teaches us that only those who dare greatly, who risk failing miserably, are the ones who achieve greatly.
Fortune favors the bold, the Romans would say. Continue reading
Everybody wants to eat, but no one is willing to hunt.
Everybody wants to be fit and strong, but no one wants to lift heavy weights. If only they could pay someone else to do their pushups for them…
People give up for a number of reasons. The following list contains 16 of the most common of them.
Okay, let’s take this one by one… Continue reading
Work-life balance. Financial freedom. Self-help. Motivation. Lifestyle advice.
The “ten minutes” this or that. The “five steps to” this or that. The easy way. The shortcut you never knew needed.
Building a life you’re proud of.
Somehow managing to come up with more than twenty four hours in a day, so you get to do all the things you want to do. Yay!
There are an awful lot of gurus out there telling you that life can be easy, if only… Continue reading
In boxing, it’s always the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you down. The punch you weren’t expecting, the punch you never thought would hit you. Life is just like that.
It’s the bizarre coincidences we never even dared take into consideration, with an even stranger ramification of consequences. And in the ensuing chaos, we no longer understand what’s going on, and we feel like drowning. Time becomes inconsistent: a second, a minute, an hour, a day… we can no longer tell what is what. Continue reading
Back during the Dark Ages one was required to take into consideration what others thought of them. Individuality, personal space, all of them did not matter that much. You were required to defend your honor. What others said about you, you either had to accept as truth, or fight to prove it as a lie.
Quite different from the way we see ourselves today, right?
Kids have their own rooms, their own private spaces. They are told to love themselves, to not care what others think of them.
Someone else’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
Something like that.
But what if they’re right?
What if it’s best to live in a social environment and try to understand why others might not like you? Why others might say bad things about you… Continue reading
“It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that bad to fail, that hard to fall?” – Neil Gaiman
I think failure is not the opposite of success. No. Failure is a stepping stone to success. An integral part of success. We learn so much from failure, and not nearly enough from success.
And, yet, most people are afraid of failure. Are you one of them? Why?