Staying Updated Is Standing On Top

In whatever one is trying to do with his or her life, one should always put his or her best foot forward and always be at his or her best.  One way of doing such a thing is to keep oneself's updated with whatever is going to be helpful to reaching him or her goals in life.  This can be the resources such as information, education, clothing,etc to help stand out from most people in life.  Another being proactive, especially when one has reached a goal in life, one should continuously start making new ones as one is about to be completed.   It is key to look to improve oneself and working to build at one's current state and avoid being idle.  When one is content and not being productive, he or she will feel like he or she is falling behind in time.  If he or she is trying to improve and be updated, that person will create opportunities for him or herself, because he or she is putting oneself in a position to get where he or she desires to go.  That person is asserting him or herself by taking control of his or her situation and being initiative and determined to improve his or her chances to achieving his or her goals.  The best way to do so is to stay anew or fresh and keep updating oneself and being on top of putting the best version of oneself upfront and standing out.

Gather Than Rather

When doing anything in life, one should gather the information and any other resources before planning to do so than rather do something without any information and resources.  One should be in control of his or her situations in life and to take an active/proactive role rather than hoping for breaks or having someone else doing it for that person and being passive.  A little bit of work has not killed anyone before.  Work is good.  Work makes someone into an honest person.  One should always put him or herself in the best possible position in anything he or she is trying to do or strive to accomplish.  Having a passive(rather) mindset is not the way to go, because one is powerless.  He or she is depending upon hope and prayers and looking for easy ways out, which in then creates doubt.  This leads to nowhere positive.  One should have a active(gather) mindset, because one is in power and controlling his or her situation and putting in the necessary work for things to be created.  Like the old saying goes, "What is faith without works?"  One can create anything he or she believes in as long as it is realistic and attainable by doing the work.

Seek And Ye Shall Find

Everyone in life has his or her own journey to seek after in order to find whatever his or her purpose on earth is.  Life is about experiencing and one needs to go to seek information or the truth on his or her own to find whatever he or she is looking.  No one can seek it for you, but it is fine to ask others to help one to move closer to finding or achieving his or her goal or destination. There are plenty of resources out there and people willing to help someone to accomplish whatever he or she is trying to obtain.  Throughout life, people have been seeking and acquiring knowledge through observation, reading, and experiencing.  The answers are out there, but one must be empirical to reach them.  Life is about discovering and learning about oneself and others and achieving.  If one really wants to achieve or find anything, he or she must seek it for him or herself; no one's journey or experience is the same.  Seek and ye shall find.

Sacrifice Is Necessary

Setting goals and working on bettering oneself are a lot to do.  It can be easy to put those on the back burner, especially if one has other things to attend to in his or her life.  One needs to make setting goals and working on improving oneself priorities, which mean that sacrifice is going to have to take place.   Time is one of the most precious and essence resource someone can have.  It is best to manage time.  If one has a schedule to meet up with friends, doing some sort of hobby, exercising, etc., he or she may need to reduce the time if necessary of those activities in order to place time for oneself's goals.  Sacrificing is not an easy thing.  It may take time to adjust to the new changes, but it will be worth it.  Time waits for no one.  It is good to be altruistic, but one's happiness and trying to better him or herself should take top priority.

Stay Strong And Persistent

One of the keys to reaching success in anything is to stay strong and persistent.  Any time a person is doing something whether it is a project, work, goal, etc. there are going period or periods of crunch time.  This can be time, resource, or anything that is a constraint to wherever one is trying to reach.  In one's mind, this can make someone's his or her lowest point in life at that moment.  What one should not do is to panic or call it quits.  One should remain calm, be optimistic and say he or she is going to get through this difficult moment.  For the most part, people do not like any sort of pressure, because it can mentally and physically wear someone out.  Believe or not, a little pressure is a good thing.  I am not saying dealing with pressure on a daily is good, but pressure here or there is. This is where a true person's character comes to fruition.  Some may fold under pressure, and may brush it off and say, "It was only one time," but that can enter and stay into someone's psyche.  Then when another encounter comes, that person is most likely going to do the same thing he or she did the first time.  If that person had gone through with the pressure and stay strong and persistent, he or she would had taken what he or she learnt from that incident, and would most likely succeeded through subsequent incidents.  Our bodies have muscle memory which has similar mechanisms as memory T and B cells in immunology.  Meaning if someone is going through a stressful situation and an event happens again in the future, the body is prepared for it and know how to handle it since it dealt with it before.  Even if you were unable to succeed the first time in a pressure situation, but fought through it, did not mean you fail.  Failing is when someone gives up entirely.  That person will continue to fail, if he or she sticks with a giving up mentality.  So all and all, stay strong and persistent in everything you do.  You will be thankful and become a stronger individual for it.

Don't Stunt Your Personal Growth

"You only have control over three things in your life--the thoughts you think, the images you visualize, and the actions you take--Jack Canfield."  This quote is dynamic in a way that it can be seen as frightening and exciting.  Frightening in a way because of the potential power of impact or effect that it can have on one's thinking and affecting the way one lives his or her life.  It is also exciting in a way because of the control one's have, only you can stop you.  From a personal standpoint, and looking over my life as a whole, I can see how I stunt my own personal growth.  Most of my life I have been an introvert, which is not something see as a negative, but going back and seeing how it slowed down my growth up until now.  I was reserved and settled into a comfort zone, which stunted my personal growth as far as developing interpersonal relationships with friends that I met in school, public areas, as well as family.  It also affected my professional growth since I had to work with people and I wanted to work more independently instead as a group, which reflected negatively upon me.  Being sociable is seen as the norm in society, and having an introverted persona can be looked as a personality disorder, but not necessarily is, in the views of many people.  The good think is that a person can change, but it is up to that individual to do so.  I always had this latent fear that I would not be good enough for people if I had shown my true self. As I gotten older and grown to learn throughout my life, not everyone was going to like me and that was okay.  One of my biggest fears was failure.  I had to learn that I had to come out of my comfort zone in order for me to truly grow as an individual.  Once I learnt that life is about experiencing, and the only way to do so is to live life without fear.  Everyone is going to go through challenges in his or her life, and the chances that we all going to fail at some point is high.  In life, there is going to be trials and tribulations.  A lot of people who had succeeded in life have failed tons of times before, but that did not mean they are failures.  You have to keep trying and trying and vision yourself succeeding to whatever goals you are wanting to achieve. There are plenty of resources out there and people willing to help you.  As I have experienced in life, people want to see others succeed in life.   Life is about experiencing and networking with other people, so put yourself out there and live!