50 Life lessons part 6
251 Write your own scripts, write your own chapters, play those characters that you love and get the desired ending irrespective of others’ liking.
252 Comfort of stable and secured life is very seductive, once you get sucked into it-you hardly want to come out of it, but you must have a will to get out of it and lead a little rugged life to give yourself chance to make a huge impact in life.
253 Reaching conclusion early before exploring the unknown and get mystified by it is like seeing caged bird and draw conclusion without watching it how high it can fly in open.
254 Confidence is useful when you need to deal with people or have to get something done quickly, but doubt is good when your aim is improvement and mastering your craft for a longer period of time.
255 When others tell us what the right path is and if we acknowledge and agree to it, it means we have been conveniently lying to ourselves till now.
256 The person who knows how to be joyful while being alone will never have to beg for company.
257 Constant self-discovery is the exercise that will never exhaust you and will always help you learn something new about yourself.
258. We can’t mask our grief with fake happiness.
259 When the entire system is corrupt, honesty is viewed with a criminal’s eye.
260 You must be ready to make a sacrifice for the things you love in exchange for everything else.
261: Your source of happiness, your interpretation of happiness, is unique and should not be copied; it must sprout, spread, and find its own direction.
262: Any story that revolves around our own personal story stays with us for a long time.
263 Many things in life cannot be fast tracked. No matter how restless you become to get it done quickly, some plants will grow and bear their fruit only after you grow them with care and patiently wait to reap the reward.
264 Sincerity towards those who oppress you makes you a slave without your being aware of it.
265 At the worst of your time, even the best of your relationships fall apart.
266 If you hesitate to tell others your value when being asked, it means you don’t have any clarity about what kind of value you want to uphold.
267 Most of the complaints in life arise from the fact that things are not happening the way you want them to happen , you are not able to do things that you want to do, and you are swayed too much by others’ words and actions.
Keep your priorities clear, check your expectations, and limit your outward focus.
268 If others’ acceptance or rejection excites you or dejects you, then your emotions are dictating you and you have no control over them.
269 No matter how many favours you have bestowed upon someone, if you do just one thing unfavourable, the unfavoured will be remembered more vividly and all the favours will be quickly forgotten.
270 In this busy world, nobody has time to think about others’ struggles. Everyone is dealing with their own challenges in their personal lives. Stop pretending that the world is watching your every move.
But if you do anything wrong — that is unacceptable to society at large — then you won’t be able to escape. When they find you indulging in wrongdoings, the same people who were ignoring your struggle will pounce on you in no time.
271 Weeds need to be eliminated in order for plants to grow healthy. Misunderstanding must be eliminated in order for a relationship to grow healthy.
272 The whole world wants you to play the game of instant gratification as it is filled with excitement, but the real treasure lies in game of delayed gratification, where you don’t expect anything to happen in short term.
If you condition your mind to play a long-term game rather than seeking instant gratification, you will be immune to many short term pain and win many battles which others cannot even think of.
273: Telling others what you want to do before doing it is a losing game, because surprising others with your work gives you more energy and firepower than making people aware of your future projects and working on them.
274 If social pressure gets to you, then others can easily get work done from you through coercion.
275 If the relationship has been strenuous in the past, it is difficult to start from scratch. Past wounds don’t die easily, and the deeper the wounds, the longer their memory lasts.
276 When a warrior goes to war, he is never sure of winning or losing but he is absolutely sure that he is not going to surrender, even in worst of situations. In the same way, you are a warrior. Life is a battlefield and winning or losing is probabilistic, but surrender is never an option.
277 If you constantly talk, you cannot think. “Thinking and talking cannot happen simultaneously.”
278 If your story is not moving anywhere ,what good would you achieve by listening to others’ good stories?
279 Everyone prefers to be around people who share their personality traits.
280 If time is money, all the time spent continuously scrolling on your phone is equal to burning money in the open air with a pinch of regret felt afterwards.
281: Never take advantage of others by standing on their backs for selfish reasons.
282 Those people are supercool who don’t talk more than required and don’t interfere too much in others’ personal lives.
283 People who get mad at loneliness have never appreciated or realised the beauty and majesty of the universe that resides within us.
284 All productivity hacks and tools for increasing work efficiency help you squeeze the most work out of the least amount of time, making you a slave to time. Your real satisfaction lies in doing work where you lose sense of time while being engaged in it.
285 Sometimes the easiest things are the most difficult to do .For example, not talking when not required instead of unnecessary talking to make your presence felt to others, Waiting patiently rather than rushing for no reason, as if the world will end if nothing is done soon, doing nothing when there is nothing to do rather than overloading yourself with unnecessary work and feeling decimated at the end.
286 Every day gives you an opportunity to start things in a new way. It gives you an opportunity to learn what you have not learned, start something you have not started. But most remain entangled in a loop of past misfortune and future worry without embracing the beauty of a fresh start.
287 Question the question that is being asked and you will never be satisfied with a shallow answer, you will go deep to get to its roots.
288 As long as you are living, your heart will keep asking you — what are you living for? You cannot escape this question for long.
289 When your focus shifts to showcasing your work rather than enjoying it alone in its pursuit, you are taking away the purity of your joy and filling it up with artificial fulfilment.
290 Overthinking about what negative could happen to you will paralyse you to such an extent that positive thoughts will always shy away from you.
291 When someone calls you and asks you to be with them, always raise the question for what specific purpose they need you. If your presence is only for gap filling and there will be no value addition to them, then it is better to decline and say no to such an offer.
292 If you get a generalised answer to your specific question, then either you have asked the question to the wrong person who has no knowledge of it or the person is hiding some bitter truth that they don’t want to be revealed in the open.
293 If you start to hate yourself because others are throwing mud at you, you fail to realise that from cradle to grave , you have to spend most of your time with yourself alone. So stop dancing to the tune of others and start reflecting on your life and improving upon it.
294 Everyone has got a different definition of achievement. Some think that their work is an achievement. Some think the barrier they cross in their life is an achievement. Some think their family is an achievement. Some think their way of living life is an achievement. Some think the relationships they make in their life’s journey are an achievement.
295 Never be easily available to someone who has a habit of getting work done through others but never returns the favour.
296 Usually, the one who has not achieved anything significant in life has the most suggestions for others. The successful one usually doesn’t believe in giving too many suggestions to others.
297 When reasonable expectations from you translate into unreasonable expectations, then your threshold of inner tolerance starts to fall apart.
298 If someone is better at something and continues to brag about it to others, that person will not be able to grow much because mastery of any skill requires a heavy dose of humility, and self-satisfaction is its worst enemy.
299 When your anger controls you, you are on the path of self-destruction.
300 If others are making unpleasing comments about you despite giving you a hint of dissent from your side, then you have every right to walk away from that place without seeking anyone’s permission.
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