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Everyone's aesthetics are different, and imitating them for a long time will only make people lose their taste. Learn to appreciate what you like instead of imitating what others like. Therefore, you must understand to appreciate your own preferences, rather than blindly imitating others!

By Willii Sheffield CPublished 3 years ago 9 min read

1. A smart person will not always do fixed thinking at one level. They know that many things are polyhedrons. If you hit a wall in one direction, it doesn't matter. You will find opportunities in another angle and you will succeed.

2. An excellent life is the product of dreams. It can be said that the higher the dream, the richer the life and the more remarkable the achievement. Conversely, the lower the dream, the less plasticity of life. That is, it is often said: "The higher the expectation, the greater the probability of meeting the expectation".

3. When we imagine the bright prospects of a goal, we will be very excited. Once it involves the action of how to achieve this goal, we often feel that we have no way to start, and it is even more difficult. Many goals are stuck by a difficult word. In fact, the completion of things is impossible to grasp, the goal is always higher than the reality, there is no reason to go from low to high. The key lies in planning, in fully tapping one's own potential and formulating a specific and feasible plan.

4. If you don’t work hard, you will have a chance. If you go in the wrong direction, no matter how hard you try, it will only be in vain. When a fool is in bad luck, he says to a bad card in his hand, as long as we work hard, we will surely win.

5. Because there is always a distance between dreams and reality, your "dream" need not be too "real". Even if someone thinks that your idea is just a "dream", you don't have to take it to heart. After all, dreams beyond reality are worth chasing with our hearts, and only then can we truly realize our potential.

6. If you are still accustomed to conventional thinking and stick to the rules, then you are destined to fall behind others and have no advantage, and the opportunity will be missed for you. So get ahead. It must have the ability to innovate: think others dare not think, do what others have not done.

7. Many successful people are not only experts in developing and capturing opportunities, but also experts in discovering the potential of opportunities and using them efficiently. Their success inspires us: we must improve the utilization of opportunities and maximize the opportunities.

8. When a person is desperate, even the slimmest hope will be regarded as a life-saving straw.

9. The distance between success and us is not far away. As long as you are willing to calm down and do the things at hand, don't want to achieve success all of a sudden. The road is taken step by step, think about what to do now, and then work hard to complete it, you will be closer and closer to success.

10. There is no other shortcut to success. It can only be down-to-earth and move forward one by one. Also known as "one step at a time". It is difficult for people who are unwilling to do ordinary work to achieve great things. There is no sudden success in the world.

11. There is no gain for nothing in the world. Don't be fooled by sudden benefits or good luck. In fact, no pie will fall from the sky. People who fall into traps are all greedy for things that should not belong to them, and are tempted by things that do not belong to them. In the face of temptation, think more and be more sober, and you will not be deceived by the traps of life.

12. Many people believe that opportunities can be met but not sought after, so many people spend their precious time waiting for opportunities. In fact, if you have extraordinary courage, a wise mind, and hardworking hands, then you will also Opportunities can be created.

13. Opportunity is by no means a gift from God. Excellent people do not wait for opportunities to come, but take the initiative to create opportunities; a successful person is by no means a leisurely tourist without any pressure, but an active participant. People who create opportunities by removing blood stasis and embrace them with open arms are the most hopeful and successful people.

14. A person usually encounters unsatisfactory things due to the limitations of his own conditions, and he is angry about it. It is better to admit the reality and take a breath to change this reality. Only the sober aspirants can have more and better opportunities, and can control their own future.

15. Goethe once said that people who are hesitant will never find the best answer, because the opportunity will be lost in the moment of your hesitation. Even in the midst of chaos, one must be decisive in making one's own choices. Hundreds of thousands of people who excel in ability have been relegated to mediocrity by missed opportunities due to indecisive habits of action.

16. Every cause is a war. The tactics should be determined according to the changes of the situation. The overall situation of the whole war must have a full plan in advance. There are many chances of winning before the war. This is the obvious truth.

17. If you are willing to be humble, you can only sink; if you are not willing to be humble, you will have endless driving force. External stimuli are a double-edged sword: they can make you sink or push you forward. So, after being stimulated, don't always feel resentful about it, but think about what you can do to make yourself as respected as those elites!

18. If you want to be respected by others, you must have real talents. Those who have the ability do not need to apologize when they stand there, and the most delicious food is to rely on their ability.

19. As long as it can be used, defects will also become favorable conditions for creating opportunities. The key is what kind of attitude and method we adopt. Fate may hint to us like this: who you think you are is who you will be.

20. Failure is actually a necessary process and a necessary investment. Mathematicians are used to calling failure "probability", while scientists call it "experiment". If there is no previous failure again and again, where is the so-called "success"? Failure is a part of success There are many successes that result from the accumulation of failures.

21. Sometimes it is wise to give up a dispensable opportunity, and you will get another better opportunity. Give up a star and maybe get a moon.

22. You can see which piece of the sky is wider at a glance, but to make up your mind to "change a different angle" requires you to have the courage to give up those "opportunities" that seem useful but are actually useless.

23'In life, you have to make choices, but you must make the "right" choices. The secret is "choose what you love and love what you choose". If you can't do what you like in your life, it's a waste of life.

24. The arrival of bad luck is something we cannot predict. Facing its enormous pressure, blaming others will only make our destiny even darker. Therefore, we must choose a way of living that is beneficial to us, change our mentality, and change our way, so as not to be overwhelmed by the abyss of doom.

25. Being a person should be like a good tire. Only by accepting everything and moving forward bravely can you go further through another way of life.

26. Don't worry about things you can't control, you have the ability to decide your own attitude towards events. If you don't control them, they control you. When you encounter setbacks, just pay the tuition once

27. If you encounter something or someone that is very unpleasant, you have to keep these unpleasant memories, remember the pain they brought you, and let them affect your self-awareness, you will hinder your own development. The choice is yours: just take the bad as a lesson and leave it behind. Throw away the baggage that makes you feel bad.

28. In addition to the factors dominated by thoughts and wills, the success of a person's actions, there is also a force that cannot be ignored - the destiny. Confucius said from the classics that "at fifty, you will know the mandate of heaven", saying that the mandate of heaven cannot be violated. It is something that cannot be saved.

29. Those who dare to take risks have the greatest chance to win success. Opportunities often come side by side with risks. Some people shy away when they see the risk, and even the best opportunity loses its charm in his eyes. If you don’t even want the opportunity because you are afraid of risks, you will undoubtedly give up eating because of choking.

30. There are no people who never make mistakes, but after making mistakes, they must accept a lesson and increase their intelligence. If a person makes a mistake and does not understand the lessons, he will only sit there and regret it, then he is likely to make similar mistakes again, and fate will not give you a second chance to succeed.

31. The famous Indian poet Tagore said: "If you shed tears when you miss the sun, then you will also miss the stars." If a person calls himself a jerk after making a mistake, he can only add regret and frustration to himself. Those who do not know how to learn from their lessons will spend their lives in regret.

32. Stupid behavior is mostly produced when the hands and feet are turning faster than the brain. When encountering something that conflicts with one's own subjective intention, if you can think about it calmly and do not act hastily, you will not be impulsive, and you will not regret it later.

33. When faced with making a decision, first of all, you should ask yourself why you made this decision? for what purpose? What are the consequences of making this decision? This will prompt you to think twice and avoid impulse

34. Zen Master Rixiu once said: "There are only three days in life. Those who live in yesterday are confused, those who live in tomorrow wait, and those who live in today are steadfast." But many people in life have their eyes on tomorrow, they don't have time to stop and look at the beauty of today, and they don't regret everything they missed until they are old.

35. Life is short for decades. "Now" is the most precious thing to us. When a person grasps the present, he actually grasps the opportunity, and he also grasps his own life.

36. If you don't want to make a decision that you regret, then when facing a problem; you must plan your thoughts carefully. In this way, you can use the "four taels" in advance to use the "qianjin" in the matter. But if you blunder beforehand, be negligent. Then it may be impossible to make up for it with "thousands of pounds" afterwards.

37. "Death and then live", when encountering extraordinary times, people need to be very thoughtful and very courageous. At the last moment, only with the determination to sink the boat can we survive and have a bright turn.

38. In fact, pushing yourself to a dead end does not mean that you will die. If you don't leave yourself a retreat, you will have no extra worries and will move forward bravely. When people face danger and despair, they often burst out. The power of the stock is infinite, so it will achieve unexpected success.

39. Only by starting a journey can you reach your ideal and destination, only by hard work can you achieve brilliant success, and only by sowing can you reap the rewards. Only by pursuit can you taste the upright people.

40. The road of life is also a curve, with potholes and twists and turns. On it, there are both the joy of the proud and the tears of the losers; the joy of the successful and the distress of the frustrated. Because of this, the curve of life makes life full and meaningful.

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