Miscellaneous ramblings for thought
Don’t pursue perfection… pursue betterment
Perfection is boring. When we’re perfect what do we have to work for? Instead of trying to be absolutely perfect, each day pursue being a little better than you were the day before.
Your biggest obstacle/battle is with yourself
The biggest walls that stand in the middle of your roads are created by you. The walls are built from your fears, self-doubt, and other factors.
This may seem like a negativity, but this is encouraging because once you realize this, it will help you jump over, go through, or tear down your walls.
Who would you be if you lost your profession, hobbies, or talents?
For instance, say you were a painter, and one day you tragically became paralyzed. You could no longer hold a brush in your hand or move your arm. How would you define yourself? Would you still be you?
It’s necessary to experience sadness & negativity
The only way to truly enjoy happiness and positivity is to sometimes experience sadness and negative. And really, there’s no way around it, life is going to toss you tough time.
Happiness is beauty
When you are happy, you are beautiful. It doesn’t matter what you look like, the true measure of your beauty is your happiness.
You can look back but don’t try to turn back
The best way to drive down the road of life is too often look in the rearview mirror but not turn the car around. It’s important to reflect on the past but you need to keep moving forward.
To achieve your dreams, you need someone who doesn’t believe in you
Every person who has achieved amazing success has had someone who doesn’t believe in them. Even more likely is that they had numerous people who didn’t believe in them.
So don’t worry that you have naysayers – be concerned when you don’t – use them in a good way to motivate you.
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Thanks for your miscellaneous ramblings! We’d all do well to take some time to think about and answer each one of those. I had to chuckle though about your last one: you need someone who doesn’t believe in you. Made me start to think about who that might be in my life…
Hey Rich,
You’re very welcome! I’m glad you enjoyed them. I think we all really have more than one person who doesn’t believe in us
Thanks for reading,
-Andrew
Hey Andrew:
Congratulations for your blog. I enjoy reading your posts.
Your insights are fabulous. Let me add a few suggestions, please.
It helps to keep a pocket diary and a pen. Write down your goals in all areas of your life. And keep on plugging away. And remember to move forward no matter what happens in your life. Take baby steps.
You don’t have to shoot for the moon all at once. Instead, just make sure you achieve your goals, one by one, and check these goals off of your to do list. That gives you a sense of accomplishment.
And celebrate your small victories. And keep your chin up, smile.
You can’t buy happiness. I rather have that than material wealth.
Hey Archan,
Thank you so, so much for the encouragement and compliments! Your advice is great. Thanks for sharing.
Hey Omar,
So true. I would rather be poor and happy, than rich and miserable. There’s no doubt about.
-Andrew
Some good points there, I especially like the one about people who define themselves by their job.
So many people not only define themselves by their job but also put it to the forefront of their life, making it appear more important than their friends and family. It’s only when they lose their job or become ill from the stress/being overworked they realise it is infact only a job, nothing more, nothing less.
Exactly Dan. Glad you liked that one!
-Andrew