While ordinary people sit back and count the reasons for not doing all they could have done, extraordinary people act upon their ideas. They are not afraid of losing; the only thing that matters to them is realising their dreams. They are not afraid of being wrong either, or of accepting mistakes and stepping back.
You cannot hope to be more than ordinary if you do not believe in yourself and your own strengths. Look at those around you. How are you, in any manner, different from the rest? Do you have any unique trait that others lean on you for? Have you cultivated a skill that benefits others? Or are you just part of the crowd — laughing, crying, criticizing, berating, eulogizing with the rest?
Think about it. It is the one with the halo of a quiet confidence and calm; a person who knows where he is headed and is confident and helpful too. Someone you can rely upon and who will not take you for a ride. Someone who embraces his ordinariness in an extraordinary manner. An extraordinary person lives his life fully.
The trick to leading an extraordinary life is to lead your simple, ordinary life and be open to experiencing the extraordinary you find within it. Striving too hard to be different is not the way to stand out; rather it is the way to becoming an object of ridicule.
Just live your life fully and by your rules; do not make compromises you do not believe in. Stand up for what is right and work with focus and sincerity. Can Mamata go national? Successful coalitions at the Centre have been usually headed by leaders with weak power bases. He sold all the tickets and now his charted plane seats were full. And this inspired him the idea of starting an airline. So, are you being proactive or being reactive in life?
Do you work diligently toward your dreams and your goals? Or are living life just as it is? Stop blaming, stop complaining and stop giving excuses. If you do not love your job right now, find ways to work around it.
You either change your job, or you change yourself and develop a passion for it. Extraordinary people mix with other extraordinary people while ordinary people mix with other mediocre people. Do you know that who you mix with will influence your life?
In fact, it is one of the most powerful factors that will determine your success in life. The boy, Mowgli, ends up acting like wolves because he was raised by them. Fight him like a MAN! You are meant and destined for big success in life. Stop living in mediocrity. However, you must first mix with the right group of people. Network with other successful people; get to know them and learn from them.
If you have jealousy and hatred toward successful people, you will never be successful, why? So, learn to love great people and admire them. Extraordinary people expect great things to happen while ordinary people expect bad things to happen. In other words, you must think positively all the time. How can you be successful if you are not thinking positive? Imagine if you are Richard Branson , will launch an airline if you think negatively?
You will never dare to move forward if you expect bad things to happen. These are the common negative thinking most ordinary people have. You have to learn to get rid of them immediately. If you have these negative thoughts, you will never go forward in life. They will stop you and they will limit you. Think about it, if Steve Jobs thinks negatively, would he launch iPhone and iPad? No, he would not. Which sane person will want to pour millions of dollars into a product if he does not think that the product is going to work?
The same goes for you. If you do not believe that your goals are possible, you will never take action in the first place. If you think that it is impossible for you to live your dreams, you will never bother taking action and achieving them. So, get rid of your negative thoughts and think positively.
Expect good things to happen. When you expect good things to happen, you will have the intention to take action. And when you take action, results will come.
Jack Ma , the person who founded Alibaba once told the audience in his talk, that the first thing he learned from other successful people like Bill Gates and Larry Ellison is that successful people always expect a positive future. Imagine if you want to lose weight, do you go to the gym to work out once and expect to lose all the weight? Or do you go to the gym consistently to achieve the result? Rome was not built in a day.
Bill Gates did not become one of the richest men in the world overnight. Living an extraordinary life takes time and effort over a sustained period. This is why most people are just… ordinary. It is the same for Michael Jordan. All you need to do is to commit to taking just 5 action steps that will move you toward your goals and your dreams each day. I called this the Rule of 5. If you do this, in a week, you will have accomplished 35 action steps. In a month, you will have created action steps.
And within a year, you will have accomplished small victories that you accumulated every day. Can you imagine how these small victories can impact your life? You will see change, slowly, but definitely. In order to produce great results and outstanding success, you must persevere and hold on until you succeed. Whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward. As long as you never accept failure and continue to work on what you want, you will eventually accomplish it.
Thomas Edison failed more than 10, times before he finally invented the filament that worked in the light bulb. Do you know that Thomas Edison did not look at his 10, attempts as failures?
They hold on and persevere. Here Are 3 Things to Know Today. I want you to go back through this article with either a pen and pad or a notes-app handy and start writing down these action steps in detail. Then make a plan for committing to them: like going out and purchasing a blank-paged hard-backed sketchbook for your daily planner, and actually doing your first yearly and weekly planner.
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