Chisimdi Nzotta
At first, I was going to make this a ‘Five signs you are a failure’ post but then I thought, ‘why not tell them ways not to be a failure instead’. I took my own advice and then boom! the birth of this.
One of my greatest fears is failing and things happened recently that had me repeatedly saying to myself, ‘You are not a failure!’. If you have this fear of failure too, here are foolproof ways that’d make the rest of your life the best of your life.
1. Have a plan(goal)
Remember the popular saying, ‘If you fail to plan, you plan to fail,’? Well, do not take it for granted. If you want to make it in life, you MUST have a plan. What do you hope to achieve? When do you hope to achieve it? How do you hope to achieve it? etc. If you do not plan there is no way to know if you are headed the right direction and what to do if you aren’t.
Set goals you hope to achieve, long and short term and decide how to achieve it. When do you want to start working for yourself if that’s what you want? When will you start writing that book and when will you finish? At what age do you want to have kids and how many? When do you want to build a house and get a car? With what income? When do you want to change your couch and what do you want to change it to. Make plans for everything no matter how insignificant.
Living without planning is like driving a racing car with no direction. You are moving but you are going nowhere.
2. Act more and say less
We always go on and on about what we are going to be tomorrow. There’s is absolutely wrong with this. The only thing that is wrong is talking about it to yourself or anybody more than you act towards it. It’s not enough to just have goals and plans, work towards it. Enroll in that college already and start studying. Get a job. Start writing that book. Start your own stuff. Get a form for that pageantry(I may be talking to myself here) and generally work towards what you hope to achieve in life.
After planning, it’s time to do what you planned. Know that if you really want to be successful, you have to put in more efforts than other people doing what you do.
3. Learn from your mistakes
You’ll make mistakes unless you aren’t human. Learn from them and don’t stop trying.
4. Surround your self with the right people
A lot of us do not know how great the impact of people we let into our lives is on us. You’ll learn a thing or two from this video of Will Smith‘s below.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bgye3rOgSp7/?taken-by=234star
5. Don’t stop dreaming
No matter what happens, keeps your dreams alive. This greatly spurs you to dare for more. Know that even if not today, someday, just someday.
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