Where do you go forgood life advicewhen you need it?
Do you look to a close relative, a patient friend, or a chosen mentor?
Or do you look to books written by people whose advice you’ve learned to trust?
I hope you’re open to receiving helpful insights from all these sources.
We gathered the advice for this article from a variety of experts and distilled them into the 21 best pieces of life advice listed below.
May you find them as useful as we have.
Still struggling to apply what you’ve learned from others and to reap the same rewards?
It’s frustrating when you know what you need to do, but you either put off doing it or you sabotage your best efforts —almost as if you don’t reallywantto succeed?
But you do! Youknowyou do. So, why aren’t you making much progress?
Why is it taking youso longto change your life for the better?
First of all, you’re not alone in this. And itispossible to get out of your own way.
But before you can stop self-sabotaging behavior, you have to know what it is and know exactlyhowyou’re sabotaging yourself.
So, we’ll start with a workingself-sabotage definitionand move on to its causes and signs.
How would you describe your personality? How would the people who know you well describe it?
Do you know your personality type, and if so, does it ring true for you?
Personality type is intriguing but sometimes confusing. However, understanding our own personalities and how others perceive us is a big part of self-awareness and emotional intelligence.
This awareness can also help you make better career decisions, have more empathy for others, and improve your decision-making abilities.
通过拥抱自己的个性和你如何naturally wired to interact in the world, you can better manage your life to support your strengths and modify your weaknesses if necessary.
Imagine for a moment how different life would be it you could flip a mental switch to turn offnegative emotions.
If you want to get ahead in your career, develop your leadership skills, and foster better teamwork, your first step should be improving your emotional intelligence.
In fact, manystudieshave confirmed that people with high emotional intelligence enjoy more career success and have a competitive advantage over those with lower EQ.
Back in 1995, psychologist and science journalistDaniel Golemanpublished a groundbreaking book callEmotional Intelligence.
The book was onThe New York Timesbestseller list for a year-and-a-half, with more than 5,000,000 copies in print worldwide.
The Harvard Business Reviewcalled Goleman’s work on emotional intelligence “a revolutionary, paradigm-shattering idea.”
Most people spend a lot of time being unhappy.
If you Google the research on happiness and how many people are happy, you’ll find that unhappy people outnumber the happy ones. The majority people in the U.S. (3 to 1) are unhappy with their work and in general.
Those statistics are daunting and sad. We have one opportunity to live our lives on this beautiful planet, and yet so many of us aren’t enjoying the adventure. In fact, many people find life difficult, unpleasant, or downright painful. But if you ask anyone what they long for most, it’s happiness. We all just want to be happy.
Life presents everyone with challenges and pain, sohappinesscan’t hinge on avoiding these things. We know wealth doesn’t create sustained happiness. In fact, some of the happiest people live in poorer countries such as Brazil, Costa Rica, and Panama. Achievement, fame, power, and material things don’t foster ongoing happiness.
So how do you become a happy person?
“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” ~Mahatma Gandhi
Just over a year ago, I heard author Susan Cain speak at the World Domination Summit in Portland, Oregon.
She had recently published her book,Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
, and was discussing how introverts operate in a world that favors extroversion and why the internally-driven should be more highly-valued in society and the workplace.
We often confuse perception with reality.
That is, we mistake how we understand things for the way that they really are. Our thoughts and feelings seem real to us, so we conclude that they must be true.
But what if they weren’t – including even our most deeply held ideas andbeliefsabout ourselves, about others and the world?