18 May Take a look at things differently (the way happy & successful people do)
9 Ways the Most Successful People See Life Differently – Because success and happiness can often be achieved simply by changing your perspective.
by Jeff Haden from Inc.com
While supposedly every cloud has a silver lining, when you're truly up against it, silver linings can be really hard to find.
So take a moment and look at your challenges, your roadblocks, your barriers, your–well, everything you face on a daily basis–and see them for what they really are: blessings.
While some people are successful because they're given special opportunities, usually the difference in long-term success and failure lies in what we do when we're faced with adversity, misfortune, and seemingly insurmountable challenges.
Everyone faces the following difficulties; successful people find ways to stay positive, keep working, and eventually overcome what to others seems insurmountable.
And you can too. Today, start changing your perspective on:
1. Failures
For most of us, failure isn't the end of the world. Failure is just the end of an idea or a possibility or a dream. When we fail, we can move on to something else, with luck a little wiser and a lot more likely to succeed.
For some, though, failure means going without–or worse, possibly forcing their children to go without.
Failure sucks, but never being able to take a chance on your skills, your experience, and your vision is much, much worse.
Be thankful you have the opportunity to fail on terms you at least partly set. Many people do not.
2. Criticism
People criticize only when they care. While people still care about you or your business, you have the opportunity to do something better, to do something differently, to change their minds–or to just meet in the middle.
Apathy is much, much worse.
3. Unhappiness
When you're sad, that means you care, and caring is the mother of changing things for the better.
Apathy is much, much worse.
Don't dwell in unhappiness. Use it as fuel to make your life better…
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