There are probably many rules that can help you to make your life work, or simply help you to make it better. To make things easier, I gathered ten rules that could help you to make things work in your life. They helped me to get things done, and they also painfully remind me about those times where I failed because of not following these rules. If you have good experience with these rules, or bad ones caused by not following them, please do not hesitate to share your comment with other readers.
1. Feel good, feel good about yourself and the things you do. If you cannot make yourself feel good about something, drop it! To be able to do so, in your mind, your body must be in the right and healthy state to be able to do so.
2. Know what you are doing, why you are doing it and believe in it. A lot of people either have no idea what they are doing, don’t know why they do what they do or don’t believe their acts contribute anything to the goals they set for themselves, if any.
3. Take risk. Many great things achieved in history were achieved by men and women taking extraordinary risks. But even by taking a little bit of risk you can already achieve a lot. Taking risk also means you have to accept it, so that you can anticipate on it.
4. Turn clear vision into a clear mission. A lot of people have great ideas, but didn’t think them through and didn’t make it their purpose to do anything with it. Imagine that everyone on earth would make a mission of bringing his or her best idea into practise. We would live in a much nicer worls.
5. Share your goal with people. Be with your team and empower them, so they get excited. One can achieve great goals alone, but they are not worth much when they are not contributing to anyone else’s life than yours.
6. Say things in a powerful way. Powerful does not mean angry, nor that you should scream at the top of your lungs when you try to make a point. By standing firmly for what you believe and seriously making it clear thought powerful expression, you can achieve more.
7. Smile. Some people forget to smile. Put a smile in everything you do. Even if you make a damn serious point about something negative, try to create a point where you talk about the positive and smile.
8. Listen.
9. Don’t move under pressure. A lot of people panic when the slightest pressure is being put on them. If you strongly believe in what you stand for, if you have thought through what you want to achieve and how you are going to do that, there is no need to panic.
10. Begin with the end in mind. Don’t go with the flow. Don’t wait to see what life has in mind for you. Nothing will come. No one who ever achieved great things did so by sitting and waiting for whatever would come. If you want to win the lottery, you have to buy a ticket! Know where you are going, and you will get there.
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I’d like to share a personal story here. Very personal :)
But I think it illustrates at least half of these bulletproof points. ‘Cause what could have been a big embarrassment turned out to be much fun and a great experience!
About a month ago I was prepping to enter a drama school. I was to read a piece from some book (actually from this one :)). One weekend I went to a city garden to rehearse in the open air, for a change. I chose a nice quiet place where nobody disturbed me, and I didn’t bother anyone either, and started.
I needed to do some speaking excercises. First you only read consonants, then vowels, then read the whole text lisping and jarring, and only then it is read in a normal way… Great technique, btw, but all this sounds, to put it mildly, weird, if one doesn’t know what this all about :)
Everything went fine, however, until a jolly company of three friends chose to sit not far from me. They were chatting and drinking beer. Soon they heard the strange sounds I was making; they started to laugh, ask me questions and make suggestions aloud about what I was doing.
Now, I know for sure what I would have done less than a half a year ago :) First I would try not to pay attention to them. Then, if they didn’t stop, I would just leave for another place… But now, not even thinking much, I turned my face to them, smiled and asked, ‘Hey there, is it me you are talking about?’
‘Well, yeah’, they said, ‘wondering what you are doing’.
So I just calmly explained them everything. And they were… impressed :) ‘Cause they never met a person that would be into something like this. And they asked if they could join me and watch. I didn’t mind. So I continued my excercises – this time in front of the audience :) They were very amused, then got so excited that joined me. We were laughing and making a lot of noise, and other people were wondering what we were doing, and wished me good luck… When we made pauses we were talking, I heard these guys’ stories – curious ones, I should say… And they were glad to find a listener in me.
I could have easily escaped all this, and this would have been OK. Just a good rehearsal in the open air. But when I started to analyze what I’ve got by taking this direction, I was just stunned:
I had fun;
They had fun;
I’ve got 3 new friends;
We opened something new to each other that day, making our lives a little bit richer;
In front of the audience my rehearsal was much more effective;
That was quite a move for me in overcoming my natural shyness :);
That little episode suddenly gave me a clear vision of what, why and what for I was doing all this. All in all, it’s not to amuse myself I was going to perform – I wanted to share that with people. Et voila, I got what I wanted :) That’s what I was actually doing! What these guys made me to do…
Afterwards, I felt so happy, excited and confident… I wouldn’t have received a 1/10th of these emotions, had I chosen another direction…
So that’s it :) And now I study at the drama school under the city’s main film production studio, and enjoy it Immensely! :D