Welcome, and I hope you’ve been benefiting from my previous posts.
Long story short, to get ahead of others in life, many things are important.
Looks, connections, inherited wealth, luck, strength, and even intelligence matter a whole lot.
However, ahead of them all is something special, the winning factor that would determine whether you’ll do anything worth mentioning in your life.
It’s mental programming. As in, the story you tell yourself whenever you observe the world.
Most people are stuck in what’s called social conditioning. This means that they live a life that’s predetermined to them, for someone else’s benefit, likely their parents’, their country’s, or even the collective human race’s.
However, that way, you’re just a cog in a bigger machine’s design.
As such, you’ll only get what you’re given, and only achieve what you’re allowed to.
There are many things that don’t exist, but because of certain scenarios, you get the illusion that they do. Like being unable to love your job, not having enough time to start a new college education next to your job, or even burnout.
You might laugh when you read the previous paragraph, but it’s true.
Why do you believe that your job isn’t worthy of being loved? Because it’s boring and whatever? Really?
Nothing’s boring in this world as long as you see it as it is. For example, many people think math is boring as hell, but to the mathematician’s eyes, it looks like true magic.
Same for there not being enough time to do a side hustle or learn something on the side. If you could control how you feel about your job, your family, your stressful situations and whatnot, then you’ll be able to shift that all to a more positive version, and as such, you’ll find that you have more time than you know what to do with.
If you work a 9-5, and two hours (at most) of your day are gone commuting, then you’re left with fourteen hours. Eight of that are for sleep; one for going to the gym or whatever physical activity suits your needs.
You’ll have five hours of free time. Many of you spend that time playing video games, going to bars or binge-watching Netflix. Not to say that those ways of spending time are bad inherently; they’re bad because you’re not doing them out of your own will, but to cope with the seemingly inescapable situation.
Know that you can choose not to be average. If not in your achievements, then in your mentality and perspective on reality. I promise you; if you stick to changing your view on life, you’ll float effortlessly.
If you can change your belief about stressful situations, from fear to excitement, then you’ll be ahead of 90% of people. And if you convince your physiology to enjoy ‘boring’ work, then you’ll be on top of the world in no time.
‘How do I find the fun in boring stuff?’ is a question that many of you might ask, and even though I’m not the biggest fan of giving answers to people who didn’t work them out, but here’s a nugget of information for you.
Ask yourself why. Why do you find XYZ boring? What key event in your life determined the kind of hobbies you enjoyed and what not to? What are the people in your life that are perpetuating your current taste in life through social pressure? Who benefits from you partaking in fun, but self-destructive behavior? Is it really fun or is it escapism, through fantasy or living through some role model, or whatever?
At first, you’ll find it difficult to change parts of yourself, but with time it’ll be like a flick of a switch.
All you need to change yourself is, 1) a willingness to change, 2) a clear image of how you’ll be like after that change occurs.
Then, the world will be yours for the taking!
Today’s recommended reading: Antifragile.
Blurb:
I have an exam tomorrow, and even though I haven’t prepared for it thoroughly, but I don’t feel much stress at all. I’m getting better, and I’m having more goals for my life. I didn’t think getting out of bed early in the morning would be so easy, as a late sleeper late waker, but with some self-talk, I could do it just as easily as doing anything else. My biggest principle in this journey will be to receive all outcomes with a smile, no matter what, and do what must be done in whatever situation I find myself in. I choose not to be a victim, and instead, I’ll be a master who got another chance at life, living it fully!
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As usual, the blurbs will be my way of journaling and documenting my daily vibe and type of thoughts that I get. The goal being to reach more useful vibrations more consistently.
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