There are only two rules in life. Be a good person and do what you love. I challenge you to give me some rules of life that don’t fall into these two general statements.
As long as you try your best, you have nothing to fear. Then all you can do is learn. If we tried our best, our best that we could at that time, then there should be no regret, no shame, no self-loathing. It was the best we could do. Now, we reflect, we think, we learn, so we can do better next time. That is all that is possible. This builds into the next quote.
All people fall. The difference between the successful and not is how quickly they get back up again. We all fall…… All of us. Everyone. But there’s no point laying there with your face in the mud. You can’t breathe down there. You’re inhaling mud. You are hurting yourself. This moment requires us to stand back up, to stand tall again, and to take steps forward regardless of how hard and ugly we fell. It’s all we can do if we want to move forward. And the quicker we do this, the further forward we’ll move. You got this. It’s OK. We rise, we fall. We rise, we fall.
It’s better to be 3 steps up the right ladder than 10 steps up the wrong ladder. This relates to career success and more importantly life success. I believe doing what you love with leads to your greatest success in life. It can be hard to give up climbing a ladder we don’t love because we’re already up 10 steps. But it may be not worth climbing it further if your true dreams are up another ladder. Start climbing the right ladder, because why waste our life on the wrong things. Better now than never. I’m sure you’ll climb this new ladder faster than you expect, and if it’s the right ladder for you, this is your destiny.
It takes years to become an overnight success. I love this quote because it reveals the two perspectives about an overnight success, one from the mass audience, and the other from the person who achieves it. From the perspective of the outsider, one day someone was no-one, and then they exploded to the moon with fame success and popularity from “one song” or one big break. But getting to that point usually takes years or more of consistent work and effort, of failures, learnings, and perseverance. It’s inspirational for all of us to keep working, because yes all our effort could appear to not be moving the needle, but it likely is, and is bringing us closer to a major breakthrough in our goals. People will interpret our success as overnight, but not everyone will understand the journey and effort it takes to get there.
Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re probably right. This is pretty basic but there are so many studies now showing that what we believe directly impacts what types of results we see. There are studies that show if someone believes something to be harmful, it ends up being harmful, and if they believe stress to be helpful, it ends up so. Our lives seem to be a mirror of what we believe. So dream big and believe in yourself.
Skateboarders try the same trick tens to hundreds to thousands of times before they finally land it. What is the single most determining factor? When they are mentally focused and determined enough to commit to it. This comes from my personal experience. It’s crazy how many times we would try a trick, but not really plan to land it, or not be present enough in that one moment of truth, those 5 seconds of focus, to seriously give it our 100% best effort.
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