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Setting up your life through success
Most people generally believe that the challenges you face in life offer you the biggest learning experiences. Success is generally looked upon as a poor teacher, even though that is the outcome we are trying to reach. But there are still things you can learn in success, that can push us further along. So here are 3 ways that you can use success to level up your life.
- Be more critical
When you aren’t doing well or working towards reaching success being critical or harsh of yourself can have the tendency of making you feel more discouraged. In these types of cases it can cause you stop working hard or completely abandon the goal you were working towards. Neither of these practices are helpful to you since success is a never ending journey. The key to utilizing these more harsh approaches is to temper them with successful outcomes. You should be more reflective on your approach, with the mindset of identifying where the shortcomings in the success were. Maybe you could have gotten a better result if you had started earlier or worked harder. It could also be that you have found a skill lacking because you didn’t know it would be important. Regardless doing this allows you to sandwich the shortcomings between great outcomes, making us more likely to feel good and continue to improve at the same time. Operating in the extremes of only confidence or failure…
