Five ways to light up your future
When it comes to your life story, you call the shots. Whether you choose a college, major, career, or spouse, you have the final say. If you want to take control of your future, you must realize that you can manipulate your own reality to fit your innermost hopes and dreams. Bend the world around you to fit your hopes and dreams. Realize that you are the driver of this vehicle known as life. You are not a passenger and you do not have to wait until the next stop. You can steer this thing wherever you go.
Here are five ways to help you light up your future and take control of your life:
1. Don’t forget yesterday, reflect on tomorrow, but live fully in today, every day.
You have real-time control of your own destiny. Don’t chain yourself by worrying too much about what happened before, and don’t overload yourself by projecting plans too far into the future. Live in the now and you will have more control over your future.
2.Network
Don’t go through life fighting battles alone. Find allies. Create genuine relationships based on healthy and positive exchanges. Don’t selfishly seek help. Be willing to give up a part of yourself in exchange for the help of others.
3. Get informed and never stop learning.
Every personal perspective in this world is unique. At any given moment, the dumbest person around you still knows at least one thing that you don’t yet understand. Be humble about your educational development. Be open to new ideas and practices. Recognize that learning never stops. Keep the door of your mind open at all times.
4. Have frequent conversations with someone who has a different worldview and belief system than yours.
Like-minded people tend to gravitate towards one another. That is natural and to be expected. If you want to have a bright future in this world, you must be comfortable dealing with people who share different points of view. If you’re a liberal hippie, only hanging out with other hippies, then how are you going to react when your first boss is a staunch conservative who wears his politics on his sleeve? Similarly, if you are the president of the local chapter of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), then you need to seek out different viewpoints to experiment with. Associating only with people who share your beliefs is short-sighted. In life, you will be constantly expected to coexist with different perspectives, so make sure you are willing and able to do so.
5. Learn to let things go.
Whenever you feel completely overwhelmed, like the odds are stacked against you, think about balance. Ask any physicist and he or she will tell you that the universe, from astronomical scales to subatomic levels, is one big balancing act. Balance is fundamental to the existence of anything from planets to people to particles. Whenever you feel like you’ve hit a rough patch, remember how things balance and find strength in the knowledge that balance holds the universe together. Trust in the fact that things will work themselves out.
The future is what you make of it. You are in complete control of your life, no matter what past or future obligations you may have. Be confident in your ability to manipulate reality in any way you see fit. Create the conditions in which you want to exist and adjust them when necessary. The more purposefully you live, the brighter your future will be.