Other people’s negativity isn’t worth worrying about. Truth be told, what others say and do, and the opinions they have, are based entirely on their own self-reflection. Don’t take things too personal and move on.
Always forgive people and move on, even if they never ask for your forgiveness. Don’t do it for them, but do it for yourself. The best medicine is a strong dose of love, laughter and letting go. Just like we would never allow even a tiny bit of poison to be in our food, let us not allow even a tiny bit of anger to live in our heart.
Don’t allow your temporary wounds to permanently transform you into someone you aren’t. A strong person is not one who doesn’t cry; a strong person is one who cries for a moment openly, and then gets up and fights again for what they believe in.
You are not what you have done, but you are what you have overcome. Your struggles aren’t found on the path because they are the path. Life is inherently risky, but there is only one risk you should avoid at all costs, and that’s the risk of doing nothing. Get out there and make something happen, even if it’s just a small step in the right direction. Strive for progress, not perfection.
When he was working on inventing the light bulb, Thomas Edison famously said, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” In other words, he believed he never once failed at inventing the light bulb, he just first found thousands of ways that it didn’t work, which led him to the one way that did. So take your so-called “failures” and learn something from them. Learn how to do it better next time. That’s what’s important.
A happy, effective mindset is really dependent on perspective. If you think something is a problem, then your thoughts and emotions will be negative. But if you think it’s something you can learn from, then suddenly, it’s not a problem anymore. In almost every case, nothing is stopping you, nothing is holding you back but your own thoughts and ideas about yourself and “how life is.”
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