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6 Uncomfortable Truths About Success You Need to Hear

Comfort. Let’s think about that for a second. Don’t get it twisted, comfort feels wonderful. It’s reassuring, safe, and protective. A comfortable evening is predictable, but in a good way. You know what you’re getting. Now, that’s great, but say you repeat that pattern, repeatedly. You choose comfort every day and night. That safety net isn’t just present, it completely wraps around your life.

Soon, the comfort can begin to feel too soft. Suddenly, it’s too hard to get up. Comfort is wonderful and necessary in all of our lives, but not wholly. Like everything, balance is needed. Discomfort – often in the form of truths you don’t want to hear – is essential in your journey to success, whatever that may look like.

How to Break Through Your Fear of Failure

Failure is inevitable. It’s going to happen. And it’s probably more common than you think. If you haven’t experienced some form of failure in your life, you probably haven’t stepped too far outside of your comfort zone.

Since failure is something that happens to everyone at some point, you may find some degree of comfort knowing you’re not alone. But if failure is so common, why does it feel so big? Why is failure so hard to accept? Well, maybe it’s not so much the failure itself, but the fear of it. Maybe it’s so difficult because of all of the emotions associated with it.

Why Successful People All Embrace Failure

What do successful people all have in common? Money? Fame? Fantastic lifestyles? Maybe! But one thing that really sets them apart from everybody else is failure. That’s right! Successful people embrace failure as a way to succeed.

It might seem counter-intuitive to think failure can aid in the path to success, but when you hear the reasons why successful people find failure to be helpful, you might start to rethink how you view failure in general.

Why Successful People Embrace Goal-Setting

Do you believe that setting goals is an important ingredient in success? Or to put it another way, how successful do you think you would be if you didn’t have goals? If you got up every day and allowed your day to unfold without direction, how do you think it would turn out?

Although having free time to relax and just let whatever happens form your day can be nice on occasion, most of the time if you want to reach your dreams and desires, you have to make an effort. And that effort involves goals and planning.

Life is like navigating a journey. And the first step in any journey is knowing where you want to go.

How to Turn Negatives Into Positives

Most people have heard the phrase, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” The idea, of course, is to make the best of what is dealt to you. If things aren’t quite what you wanted, try to make it into something else.

Although it may not be quite as simple as it sounds, it can be possible to change a negative thought or situation into a positive one. By practicing techniques that help you to alter your perspective and see things in a different way, you may be able to turn your “lemons” into “lemonade.”

Artist Mary Engelbreit said,

“If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.”

Let’s take a look at a few ways to reframe the negatives into positives.

Why Really Successful People Say No To Almost Everything

One of the world’s wealthiest billionaires, Warren Buffet, is quoted as having said,

“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.”

This concept may seem confusing to some, wondering how anyone could be really successful if they say no to most things. Wouldn’t you think that by taking advantage of every invitation and opportunity, you could have a full and profitable portfolio of investments and accomplishments?

You might think so, but by discovering how really successful people look at opportunities, you might find that by being more selective in where you put your time and energy, you’ll produce better results!

Let’s take a look at why saying no to some things, can be a big YES to bigger things.

Why Constant Learning is the Key to Success

Every piece of information you’ve ever acquired has been learned. Every single one. I could end the article at that, but no one will have learned anything. While learning new pieces of information every day is one thing, consistently choosing to is another.

For many people, the most concentrated time for learning takes place in a school or a university. That’s where you go to develop your mind and learn about all manner of things, allowing you to make choices and become the person you are today. That’s great, but the education system lets us all go eventually. For the vast majority of your life, learning will be in your hands.

Why a Morning Routine Will Make You More Successful

Are you a morning person? Some are and some aren’t. Regardless of the time you start your day, you most likely have some sort of morning routine. Most people have consistent habits that begin when they first get out of bed. These may be things like drinking coffee, eating something, maybe checking your phone for social media posts. Or other random interruptions that may pop up.

But what if your morning routine was planned out in such a way to make your day more productive? Could a morning routine actually make you more successful? What kind of activities and intentions might help you to start your day on a more positive note?

Let’s take a look at some reasons why a morning routine could make you more successful.

7 Habits Of Unsuccessful People You Don’t Want To Copy

What is success and how do you achieve it? Perhaps one of humanity’s most deep-rooted searches, ‘success’ is the ultimate power card available to each of us. In the search for true self-pride, we humans will push our minds and bodies to their limits. Perhaps that’s why you’re here.

To be successful, you must surely focus on what to do, right? Knowing what to avoid can be just as, if not more helpful. If you don’t know the habits of a typical unsuccessful person, then seeds of unwanted behaviours may grow without you realising. Cutting them out at the root before they’ve had a chance to prosper is a good start.

Rise to the Top – How to Become the Best at What You Do

In the popular book, Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell, Gladwell writes that:

“for almost a generation, psychologists around the world have been engaged in a spirited debate over a question that most of us would consider to have been settled years ago. The question is this: is there such a thing as innate talent? The obvious answer is yes.”

Gladwell writes that we imagine that “achievement is talent plus preparation.”

Right?