3 Psychological Rules For Your Life’s Success
Too many people waste time in life when all they have to do is grasp what they know they can do well and with a passion
Are you in prison?
This is what my old school friend said to me one night when I called him up to see how he was. I laughed out loud because I knew what he meant. See, I had been ringing him about once a month and had done for the previous year or so.
After all, at the time, it was the middle of a pandemic.
And if you’re reading this in the present period that I`m writing then you’ll know what it’s like to be in a pandemic!
As the phone conversation continued with my friend we concluded that being in a government-imposed lockdown would be a great time to do time in jail. After all, being in jail robs prisoners of their freedoms and lockdowns stop people from going places in the normal way. So that’s why many people find lockdowns to be similar to punishments.
When I got off the phone with my friend it got me thinking about what it would be like to be in jail for real.
I figured it would be harsh and it would limit all the things I want to do in life. And that would then frustrate me. And if I were to be released back into society after being in jail then I`d regret wasting all that time in my life which would have inevitably stopped me from doing what I wanted to do.
But if you’re reading this it’s likely that you’re free of jail and has chosen to interrupt your normal life by investing your time in these few lines and for that, I’m thankful to you.
So it’s only fair that right now I`ll get to the 3 reasons why we must grasp life in the present and live it to the full:
1. When we are born we have life but we are not guaranteed that it will be a good one until we mix with good people
As when we are that small we never know what good even is. So we have to be taught about it. That’s where those closest to us teach us about emotions and how it feels if we are nasty or if we are pleasant to another person instead.
Of course, we know that we want to be treated well.
So we soon realize that we need to smile at people by way of greeting them and from there we build up the presumption that everyone will have our best interests at heart.
Yet not all people do.
And it usually takes us many years to separate the good people we come across from the bad people we meet throughout our lives. That’s when adulthood kicks in and those closest to us let us learn from our mistakes. But still, as adults, we often trust the wrong people and it knocks our confidence back as a result.
So at that stage, we need to go back to basics and accept that we judged people wrongly as being good for us when they weren’t.
And we must learn from these experiences but at the same time continue to keep an open mind to meeting new people in the future. Otherwise, we’ll be limiting ourselves and our potential to meet a new network of good people. But if we do this we will never continue to learn and grow.
2. We never know how much time we have left in life until it’s over
And even then we’re not guaranteed we’ll know the end has arrived. Because we’re not familiar with enough people who have come back from death and can agree on their analysis of what the last moment taught them.
So all we can do is wait for our death or we can enjoy or live.
The choice is that simple.
Yet too many people blame others for something that they said or did in the past, or refer to something that must happen in the future before they can get ahead in life. Either way, they’re playing with time that they`ll never get back. And there’s no guarantee they’ll be gifted the same amount of time going forward once you do feel ready to move on.
So we need to grasp the present moment and take action in case it’s our last.
3. What we are attracted to spending our time on at present is a clue to what our overall thinking is pushing us towards for the future
Because that’s the activity or pastime that’s dictating of overall attention. So it’s only a matter of time, be it weeks, months, or years that we’ll be forced to spend all our time on this passion. And when we do we’ll finally be present in our lives.
And that’s when we’ll be able to do our very best at what we do.
So until then, we need to ask ourselves what we are waiting for in life or better still, are we happy to be imprisoned for things we didn’t create or spend all our time doing?
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