These are life lessons that I have learned and things I try to live by. I’m looking forward to this list growing and changing as I get older, but I hope you can benefit from what I've learned in my life thus far.
1. Get the negative people out of your life
Negativity breeds negativity. Don’t allow people to bring you down. Life is 90% attitude and 10% circumstance. You have the power to choose your attitude every morning.
2. “Act as if”
If you want to be a manager or leader at your job or otherwise, you need to act as if you are one already. Carry yourself as a manager would. Be early, stay late, be focused, take initiative, set goals, communicate with your leaders, set an example, be a leader.
3. Don’t let things get behind you
Know what events are coming up and start preparing way in advance.
4. Take care of yourself
Get enough sleep every night, eat well, drink lots of water. More than that, you need to take care of yourself spiritually and emotionally. Don’t let your job become your relationship. Make time for the important people in your life and make time for God. He obviously made time for you when he created you and then died for you.
5. Have a plan
Where do you want to be in a year? 2 years? 5? Work from back to front. Plan out how you’re going to get where you’re going down to the month. “If you fail to plan you plan to fail.”
6. Be financially responsible
Budget your money, set a goal for how much you want to have in savings in 1 year, 5 years, 10 years and create a plan on how you’re going to do that.
7. Stay on good terms with everyone you encounter, don’t make enemies
The more people you have on your side, the better. One key to being successful is networking. It’s not what you know, it’s who you know. The more people you know and who know you, the better.
8. Be a leader in all things
In fashion, in speech, in action, in the way you treat others, in lifestyle. Don’t conform to what everyone around you is doing. Set the bar high for yourself and don’t let other people dissuade you. You are different, you are unique, you have been called to a higher standard. You are not ordinary.
9. Be trustworthy
Reputation is everything. People are judgmental and a bad reputation will spread much faster than a good one.
10. Talk yourself up
Sometimes there won’t be anyone to encourage you. You will only have yourself. Look in the mirror and tell yourself how awesome you are.
11. Be balanced
It’s easy to be a workaholic. Make sure you make time for yourself and do things that fill you up and give you joy.
12. Always strive to be better
Everyone has negative qualities, and you have the power to change those qualities. If you’re not growing, you’re dying. Don’t settle for mediocrity, and don’t settle in relationships. Friendship or romantic. You have the power to choose the people who are in your life.
13. Stay humble
Humility will take you very far. While you need to believe that you’re awesome and that you’re going places, you also need to acknowledge that everything you have is a gift from God. Humility will bring you more respect from peers, friends, coworkers, and authority figures than pride will.
14. Know what you believe (morally and otherwise) and stick to it
Don’t be wishy-washy, that ruins your credibility. Keep your standards and morals high, even if people around you have lowered theirs. People are watching you, even if you don’t realize it, and if you slip and take the easy road just one time, that could ruin everything you’ve been working for.
15. Don’t take yourself or life too seriously.
No one likes a person who has a stick up their ass. Know how and when to have fun. Learn how to laugh at yourself. It puts everyone around you at ease.
16. Be honest
Honesty is the best policy, always.
17. Seek advice
Don’t pretend like you can do everything on your own. Find someone older than you who is in a position or place you want to be, and ask them how they got there. Be willing to learn. Have an open mind.
18. Love everyone
Don’t be a hater. Treat others how you want to be treated. Allow yourself to care about people, not just about things.
After reading this through again, I am so motivated to do all of these things even more than I do them now! I really hope this encouraged and motivated you!
Faith.Hope.Love.
Chelsea Rae
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