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Let’s face it; in today’s time of excessive competition, we’ve all started giving importance to certain things that shouldn’t be a priority in our lives at all. The reality is, we all are going to die one day; do you believe that the things that you are giving your life and struggles for at the moment will even help you even after your death?? If yes then keep on going in what it is that you’re doing, but if no, then that means that you need to change certain things in your life.
1. Intention
The first step that you must take into account to change your life and be successful is the intention of changing yourself. There will be no benefit of reading or even sharing this article if you are not going to follow it at all. Forget about following it, you can never change your life unless you yourself want to change. So, forget about us, forget about this article, just focus on your intentions and work hard towards it. Hence, the first step to making yourself more successful and happy is by making it an objective to change yourself and your attitude in life, because without any initiative from you nothing can be achieved.
2. Ignore the haters
The next point that you should remember is that there will always be bashers and haters that are going to criticize you. The reality of life is that there will always be bitter people who have a more miserable life than you and since they’re already miserable they are prepared to drag you down with them. According to the wise words of Taylor Swift from the song “Shake it off” – haters are always going to “hate-hate-hate” so we just need to shake them off and ignore them and stay focussed on your goal.
3. You are your self’s enemy
Always remember that at the end of the day, only you have the power to destroy or develop your life and your personality. This is your life, you are the one who feels the pain, you are the one who feels the happiness, and you are the one who makes the effort so why are you giving power to other people when it comes to you?
You need to be your own mentor and teacher. Only you know your weaknesses and strengths. Now there might be other people who know you and your personality too, however, when it comes to having power to do something or to achieve something then that only lies with you and no one else.
4. Never give up
There might come a time when you will end up falling down again and again in life, but remember that a failure is a person who accepts failing and just never tries again in his life. Bottomline – you need to fail first before you can become a success. If you’re not failing at all then that means you’re not trying hard enough.