Life is shit, as long you don’t follow these rules…
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. — Albert Einstein
While I went through a huge process of change, I had to realise some certain things, that will lead me to a better, more interesting and happier life if I will practice them.
Books!
Read as much as you can. As many books, newspapers and blogs as you know. Daily and in every free second. Get inspired by them, they will help you to open your mind and understand other lives and cultures. Try to avoid boulevard paper, there is no content only dominating pictures and sometime even prejudice. If you stuck to this plan you will be the one guy with interesting stories and facts to share at your friends grill party. (Facebook and Instagram doesn’t count!)
In case you’re not that good in reading but you want to improve yourself, click here to read what I did to improve my German and now doing it with English.
Sports!
Do at least once a week some sport. Get rid of the left over power in you, sometime you need to hit the 0% to be able to recharge yourself to 100%. It’s not only about your physical health, what’s obvious, it’s about your mental health as well. You’re facing some problems and you don’t know how to handle them? Go for a run, swim or ride. Take some time for yourself. It will help you to find the answer you have been looking for.
Don’t chase People
It’s very easy to explain, people who really want to be with you, will always find a way to stay with you. If they pretend that you’re no that important to them, believe them. Never look for excuses why it was okay that someone hurt you. There are no mistakes, only decisions. You have never to question the loyalty of a true friend. You don’t have to fight for attention from real friends. They will try to show you how important you are for them and you will try to show, how you are interested in them. There is no reason to fight for people you mean shit to them. Follow your passion and the right people will come from self. But remember, people come and go and that’s okay. If somebody wants to leave, let them go and let them make space for someone even greater.
Stay true to yourself
Never stand back when it comes to the question of your opinion. Don’t be afraid to hurt other people, because you won’t. You will may have another point of view, but it will not harm anybody. Your friend will accept that you have another opinion, he will agree that you two disagree on something. If not and he feels insulted by your different kind of view, you should let him go anyway. There is no reason to be 24/7 cautious about what your saying, only to make sure that nobody will feel offended. But in the end you will have forgotten that one person and that’s yourself. It isn’t possible to stay forever happy with putting others always into the first place and yourself into the second…
Travel
It’s the most mind opening thing I could recommend to you. Try new things, eat something you have never seen before and get in touch with locals. Try to avoid touristic places and discover instead the culture of the country. Use the local public transportation. Avoid western fast food chains. Sleep in hostels and not in hotels. Find new travel buddies in there, have fun and enjoy your life. Travel stories are experiences you will never forget, even if there were some bad ones, they will turn into funny ones at the next grill party back home, promise. It will let you grow while you’re going through the daily struggle of finding your way through an environment you have never seen before.
Meet new people
I know there is always this little bit awkward and weird moment when you meet someone new. But it’s always worth it. It isn’t healthy to stay constantly in your small friends circle. In case you’re an introvert, it’s just an reason more to face your fear. Force yourself to get in touch with strangers. Go to this grill party you know only this one guy, go to visit overcrowded bars and take a seat beside a stranger on a ski lift. But only to meet them isn’t enough, be interested in them and ask them as much as possible, everyone has his own story which they would like to share. Learn from this stories and try to understand them. Don’t stand there and just listen without questions, you might like to listen carefully and want to show respect by this way. But it can be easily misunderstood as an I-don’t-care-attitude.
Questions
Ask as much as possible questions. Don’t only ask people about their lives, ask yourself minimum the same amount of questions. Asking questions doesn’t mean you’re dumb, it means you’re willing to learn something new. If there’s no answer around the corner, go and chase it until you have it. It’s easier than you think. The key is this top secret website (www.google.com) ;-) If you are willing to learn more, although it’s just reading a biographic book or going the next step in your educational way, you will definitely never get bored.
Set some goals and save your money
To set goals is a very important thing, if you won’t do that you won’t know where you’re heading to. After you have set your priorities you will know on what you want to spend money and on what not. Don’t follow trends. Don’t buy what others buy. Buy whatever supports you to reach your goal. Anything else is not valuable for you. For instance when you start to train for a marathon, it won’t be recommendable to drink RedBull, so buy a water which will be obviously cheaper and throw the saved money in a money box. If it’s full bring it to your bank and after a while it will be possible for you to use it for another goal like to travel to China for instance. Of course you won’t get rich with avoiding a drink, but you can safe a big amount of money with avoiding bullshit you don’t particular need for a living…
Click here to read why people don’t like my goals and why they probably won’t yours neither.
Face your fears and do mistakes
Don’t be afraid of doing mistakes. You can achieve some great experience through that. If you always avoid risk and choose the secure way, your live will stay boring. Of course you can read about others and try to learn from theirs mistakes, but you will never be that aware about what you have done if you won’t have done the mistake by yourself. I don’t say go out and do mistakes on purpose, but try not to avoid an opportunity because there’s a slight chance that something could go wrong… It could hold you back from the once in a lifetime decision.
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Jason
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