Developing your mental toughness will be key in determining how far that you will be able to go in life. Our mental strength is just as important as the physical exercise we should be putting in daily, and there are many things you can do to help get your mind where it needs to be.
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
Living with the pain and fear of the past is not simple. We all have different sets of experiences and getting past emotional pain can be very difficult according to what we went through.
Going the extra mile will take you much further in life than you potentially thought you might have been able to go. One principle in life that is simple to understand once we are willing to do it on a habitual basis is that working hard will always pay off. Never think that the extra work you are doing that nobody seems to notice in the moment won't pay off, because if you continue to operate with this attitude and mindset, it always will.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become your characters. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny. You are what you think.
Life is what you make of it, and if you aren't willing to make it what you want it to be, it won't be much of anything. Though it is very hard to make your life a living paradise, it is something that you can expect, if you know in your heart that you are willing to work hard for that goal.
Focus on your blessings, not your misfortunes. Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses. Relax and let life come to you... try not to force anything.
Though we can all make excuses as to why certain things may happen in our lives, and it may be tempting to show the world only what is good about us, and none of our flaws. Living life in this manner isn't truly living a full life at all. Sure no one wants anybody to see them mess things up, and no one wants to be viewed as a failure, but one is truly only viewed as failure not when they fall down, but only after they refuse to get back up.
Don't feed your mind with negative thoughts. If you do, you will come to believe them.
Choosing to live a life in a cynical negative matter, doubting every opportunity, and doubting every God-given ability that you possess, is in effect choosing to live a life bound by the chains of mental slavery.
Best rule for a simple life... Care with no reason, love with no expectation.
In order to make things simpler in your life, you have to really become least obsessed with the things that stress you out, and work on your life daily, in an effort to make the best decisions for each day. As you continue to successfully make each day better than the last, choosing to make great decisions that are not only ambitious, but ethical and morally right as well, things will really start to get simpler.
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
To keep moving forward in life it is a must that we keep a continual attitude of positivity, and excellence. Keep a smile on your face, even in the most trying of times. Keep being yourself as well. Many times when life gets us down, all we desire for is some normalcy after tragedy. During these difficult times we must remember to fully engage in life, and to live to reach and surpass our potential, we have to continue to be ourselves and no one else. Doing so will lead to the ultimate happiness, and is the only way to truly be fulfilled.
You shouldn't give up. Fight for yourself and who you are. You've got to go through the worst times in life to get the best.
Sometimes life requires us to do nothing more than to just "hang in there" after we face the severest of storms and difficulties. Nobody ever told us that life would always be easy, but we must always keep in mind that while we still have breath to live, everything is going to be all right.
You can't please everyone. When you're too focused on living up to other people's standards, you aren't spending enough time raising your own.
One of the biggest lessons we must take with us in life to live as productively as intellectuals is that there will always be people in our lives who are jealous, or who just don't vibe with us, for whatever reason is inside of their heads. Instead of living a life seeking to please these types of people, by not being ourselves, and restraining from speaking up about things we know in our hearts we should speak up about, we have to give the people that we cant be ourselves around the delete button.
