Three Quick Tips for Getting Ahead in Life
Do you want to get ahead in life?
I am constantly looking for ways to better my life. I saw a quote on Twitter yesterday that said, “If you’re not living for something, then you’re dying for nothing.” I want to live for something! I want to make things happen instead of just letting them happen to me. Therefore, I’m always on a quest for how to better myself.
Today, I want to offer you three quick, but potent, pieces of wisdom that I ran across this week in my journey. I hope you’ll take a few minutes to digest these and ponder how they can help you get ahead in your life. Remember, you have the power to choose how your life turns out!
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
~ Jimmy Dean
1. Learn to consciously control your emotions and reactions
Sometimes things don’t go our way. Sometimes people say or do things that offend us. Sometimes we make it worse with our reactions. How do you usually respond? If you can learn to step back from these situations and analyze them without letting your emotions fly out of control, you will rise above many and be able to move ahead in your life. It takes a lot of self-discipline and maturity to do this. I’m not very good at it, but I’m going to work on it.
I highly encourage you to read Someone just threw a shoe at you to learn more.
2. Put your ego aside and accept it isn’t all about you
Not everything in life is about us! The “it’s all about me” attitude leads us to take way to many things personally. We get wrapped around the axle about the most minor issues, because we let our egos tell us that it was all about us. In addition, we let our egos lead us to believe we know best in situations where we should just “butt out”. It isn’t easy to lay your ego aside, but it can certainly help you to get ahead in life.
You might want to ask yourself, when it comes to Personal Development – Is Your Ego Getting In the Way?
3. Be flexible in the way you pursue what you want
Are your goals too rigid? We can often develop tunnel vision and fail to see new ways to get what we want out of life. Ask yourself, “What is it that I really want?” Sometimes there is more than one way to achieve the desired outcome. Being too rigid can also rob you of all the joy in the pursuit of your goal. It’s not just the destination that counts, it is also the journey. Are you enjoying the journey? If not, then maybe you are being too rigid!
Learning to Hold Your Goals Loosely will help you to overcome obstacles and get ahead in your life!
“Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
~Aristotle
I hope you find these tips as valuable as I did. They are extremely powerful! I honestly believe that we can make a huge positive difference in our lives if we’ll just make the right choices. Will you choose to follow these great tidbits of wisdom to get ahead?
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These are such great tips. I really need to do some work on #1!
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You are right about being flexible with your goals, sometimes when are so focused on what we want, that we fail to see how moving in another direction might actually help us.
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As always, excellent reading and practical tips to apply for everyday living. Thanks!
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Hi Jeff, I love your closing words for this article. The quality of our life has everything to do with the choices we make and follow through on. Thanks for the link love and the great resources.
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Very nice, I love Jimmy Dean’s quote. That’s a great way to think about it, understand the things you cannot change and how you can leverage that. Nice.
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Excellent tips and all 3 can really help out. I may also add have confidence. If you have confidence you can improve your life socially, personally, at work and other.
Three tips that are very simple, but many of us find very hard to practice. these are three things that we all should keep in our minds while going along.
Thanks for the useful words!
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Jeff, way to go! This is really good and concise advise. Thanks for the link love my friend.
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“If you’re not living for something, then you’re dying for nothing.” Great quote!
Being flexible is really important. For a lot of people the best opportunities turn out to be things they wouldn’t have thought up ahead of time.
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I love that Jimmy Dean quote. Flexibility is something I am learning, but controlling that “OMG… You just threw a shoe at me and the world might deflate and blow away like a popped balloon” feeling gets to me more often than I’d like to admit.
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