The Most Important Life Lessons I Learned During The Past 10 Years
1. Find your passion and you will find
courage
I
struggle with this myself like everybody else. I made decisions in my life
without considering what I like and I ended up feeling empty and
discouraged when things go south. What I came to know is
that when I focus on understanding myself and what my heart truly wants, the direction becomes more clear. Whether I fail or I succeed, it doesn't matter because I know within me that I am fulfilled with what I am doing. I would rather fail in something I love and feel satisfied, than succeed in what I don't love and feel empty.
2. A happy life is built on great
relationships
We
were once told that in order to be happy, we need to money, a great career,
great stuff and great adventures. That is not actually true. Experience
is the best teacher they say, but learning from the experience of others is a
lot better than having to go through the experience with you. I know
people who are rich and had great careers but are not happy as others who live
with less. Why? Because they compromised their relationship
with their loved ones with other priorities such as work. According to the Harvard Study of Adult Development, they found out
that most happily partnered men and women reported, in their 80s, who on the
days when they had more physical sense, their mood stayed just as happy. But
the people who were in unhappy relationships, on the days when they reported
more physical pain, it was magnified by more emotional pain.
3. "Sometimes we win sometimes we
learn"
This
is one of the most memorable lesson is got from my boss and mentor. It is all about taking away failure as a possibility. No
matter what we do, we think of it as either a success or a lesson. It
is true because in real life, we learn significant lessons even when we fail. Failures teaches us to be better in what we do so that the mistake will not happen again. As a result,
we grow, we develop new habits, we build courage and we become more confident of ourselves
4. Life is too short to feel bad about petty things
I
am a person who has very little patience; I get frustrated and pissed of with so
many things. But then when I realized how short life really is, I
began to change my perspective. Instead of focusing my mind on the
bad things that happen, I would rather look at the other side. It is only a matter of perspective. If I choose to look
at the brighter side, then surely there is a brighter side to whatever predicament I am into.
5. A problem without a solution is
a situation
We
have to understand that we are no superhuman. There are things in
life that we really could not do anything about. The problem is that
when we are in challenges, we are so much confident in ourselves that we can do
something about it. And after we fail to address it, that is the
time we become stressed, depressed and problematic. Relax! Learn
to let go and let God! Have peace in your mind that when you can do
anything about it anymore, let it go. Its no longer a problem, but a
situation. Situations do not have solutions, you only
have to live with it.
6. "Success without God is the most
miserable failure"
I
learned this from my good friend and a brother in Christ Dr. Rene H.
Francisco. Why is it so important to always walk with God? Matthew
16:26 states the very reason we should not disregard our walk with God. It
is much more important than anything in this world. We were created
by God to walk with Him. Our life purpose is to make God the center
of everything. in that way we are bringing glory to His name.
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