Career Tips: 9 Obvious Truths Everyone Forgets

The human mind has an interesting ability to learn then selectively forget what seems too true to escape; or too obvious.

Here are 10 facts we encounter all the time but choose to completely forget and the learning cycle begins again. Take a look:

1. Life Is Short

We know deep down that life is short, and that death will happen to all of us eventually, and yet we are infinitely surprised when it happens to someone we know. It’s like walking up a flight of stairs with a distracted mind, and misjudging the final step. Live your life today!

2. You Will Only Live The Life You Create For Yourself

Your life is yours alone. Others can try to persuade you, but they can’t decide for you. They can walk with you, but not in your shoes.

Remember, it’s always better to be at the bottom of the ladder you want to climb than the top of the one you don’t. Be productive and patient.

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3. Being Busy Does NOT Mean You Are Productive

Though we all have seasons of crazy schedules, very few of us have a legitimate need to be busy ALL the time.

And being busy rarely equates to productivity these days. ‘Busy’ people outnumber productive people by a wide margin. Their busy schedule gives them an elevated sense of importance. But it’s all an illusion.

4. Sometimes Failure Occurs Before Success

Most mistakes are unavoidable. Learn to forgive yourself. It’s not a problem to make them. It’s only a problem if you never learn from them.

If you’re too afraid of failure, you can’t possibly do what needs to be done to be successful. Behind every great piece of art is a thousand failed attempts to make it, but these attempts are simply never shown to us.

Bottom line: Just because it’s not happening now, doesn’t mean it never will.

5. Thinking And Doing Are Two Very Different Things

You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do. Knowledge is basically useless without action. Good things don’t come to those who wait; they come to those who work on meaningful goals. Ask yourself what’s really important and then have the courage to build your life around your answer.

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6. You Don’t Have To Wait For An Apology To Forgive

Life gets much easier when you learn to accept all the apologies you never got. Forgiveness is a promise – one you want to keep. When you forgive someone you are making a promise not to hold the unchangeable past against your present self. It has nothing to do with freeing a criminal of his or her crime, and everything to do with freeing yourself of the burden of being an eternal victim.

7. It’s Not Other People’s Job To Love You; It’s Yours

It’s important to be nice to others, but it’s even more important to be nice to yourself. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. So make sure you don’t start seeing yourself through the eyes of those who don’t value you. Know your worth, even if they don’t.

8. What You OWN Is Not Who YOU Are

Stuff really is just stuff, and it has absolutely no bearing on who you are as a person. Most of us can make do with much less than we think we need. That’s a valuable reminder, especially in a hugely consumer-driven culture that focuses more on material things than meaningful connections and experiences.

9. Everything changes all the time

What you HAVE today may become what you HAD by tomorrow. People and circumstances come and go. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.

However good or bad a situation is now, it will change. That’s the one thing you can count on. So when life is good, enjoy it.

Happiness never comes to those who don’t appreciate what they have while they have it.

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