LIFE CHANGING LESSONS I LEARNED
Although some lessons must be learned through experience, you don't have to wait until midlife to become aware of what's truly meaningful and worthwhile. You simply need the curiosity and desire for self-awareness and personal growth. Once you learn the lessons, you can apply them in your life at any age and see the benefits to your happiness and well-being.
we experience various occasions when decision-making become necessary. A number of them present themselves in difficult forms and at crucial points. Most of the verdict we take will eventually figure and describe our track of lives. These are what we refer to as lessons of life. Choices never present themselves in an easy way. In some instance we are always forced to pay a price to achieve something. This implies that we are trading for an outcome we are seeking.Period, actions and situation can help us learn a lot about our environment, ourselves and people in general. They give us an opportunity to face our reliability, integrity, accountability and skills of dealing with life result. However, Life can then be said to be the conditional value of human affairs or individual's manner of living, it is the admiration of one's condition, personality and behaviour. It can be the measured by the collective value of each affair in distinctive class or type, and considering whichever way or the nature of living one indulges in, either at the low-level or high level or the good or evil etiquette of living. According to Timothy Titcomb in his book "Lessons in life" he noted that there are so many outrageous things that have been practiced in the family and moods are the excuses being given for such action, because, moods are the most indefensible things generally.
John Cleese once quoted that "We all work in two contrasting modes, which might be described as open and closed". In view of this, he expatiated that "the open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more democratic, more playful and more humorous. While, the closed mode is tighter, more rigid, hierarchical, and more tunnel-vision. He further elaborated that most people spend most of their time in the closed mode"
1. We get treated in life the way we teach others to treat us.
The first of the many powerful lessons learned from is this: people will treat you the way you allow them to treat you. Respect and love yourself and others will do the same.
2. There are no mistakes, only powerful lessons we need to master.
If you learn from everything that happens to you, you will discover that there is no such thing as mistakes, only powerful lessons to be learned. Ans if you don't, chances are that your life will look at 40 the same way it did when you were 20. And at 60 the way it looked when you were 40…
3.What you resist, persists.
What you focus on expands and what you resist, not only does it persist, but it also grows in size. And if you want to shrink something and make it disappear from your life, you need to stop feeding it by fighting against it.
4.Life is all about the journey and less about the destination.
A lot of times we get so focused on our big dreams and goals, that we forget to enjoy this journey called life. Always remember that life is all about this moment. Life is all about the journey and less about the destination.
5.People deserve a second chance.
Here's another one of these powerful lessons learned from life:the moment you forgive somebody, chances are that you will also give them a second chance, a chance to be near you, without trying to remind them of what they did to you, treating them not as they are, or as they once were, but rather as you want them to be. By doing this, you are also allowing them to grow and to become better and better every day.
6.If you don't believe in yourself, nobody will.
Don't expect others to see gold where you can only see dust. If you don't believe in yourself, if you don't believe that you are capable, a worthy human being, chances are that nobody will. You will act on that belief and people will treat you based on what you think about yourself, based on how you treat yourself and based on how you act and behave in the world.
7.If you love yourself, chances are that others will love you also.
It's all about self-love, it all starts with self-love. If you don't have the love for yourself, how can you expect to get it from somebody else? Love yourself and others will love you also.
The world has plenty of information but not enough inspiration.
8.If you think about it, now with the technological revolution, we get access to so much information.
Let's take for example a tiny chip. How much information can you store on it? Isn't it incredible? We have more information than ever… but when it comes to inspiration (in- spirit) I would say that we have a deficit.
9.The world won't change if you don't change.
You hear people all the time complaining about how crazy the world is and how they want it to change, but if you tell them to make the first step…: "What? Me? Do you think there is something wrong with me? I am perfect, there is nothing I need to change. These people are crazy and they need to change, not me! They are the ones who are destroying us all, not me… Those bastards!"
10.Patience is a virtue.
In order for things to happen, in order for anything to happen, we need to be patient. We first plant the seed of greatness and then we wait for it to grow, we allow it to grow; we take care of it and we protect it. Great things take time and we need to learn how to give time, time.
"It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on."-Nicholas Sparks