Life is a like a puzzle. Everyone you meet has a special role to play in your life to bring a picture together with the right set of colours and shapes. When their role is finished in your life, they move on. This puzzle has a pattern in which our lives have to fit in. This pattern may require some lives to be twisted, knotted, cut short or even extended to a certain length. After all, life is not that neat. However, in order to complete this puzzle, we have to look at every knot and twist with a perspective. This all has to be done in a greater detail that completes this beautiful puzzle.
I love being successful. Successes are great! We all are striving hard for success. But what really is a success? For someone, bringing a smile on someone’s face or making a six-figure salary is a success. Sadly, success doesn’t teach us the valuable lessons that we learn from failures. Don’t take me wrong. Success is full of awesomeness, but you can’t shake hand with success unless you have met with failures. They are best friends forever, one can’t live without other.
Only you can help yourself with failures. What is a failure, one more step closer to success perhaps? Some people are going to say yes and some people are going to say no. So what! Remember, someone is out there who is interested in your ideas and waiting for you to show up. Rejection is really a myth. If one person tells you no, ask someone else. There are 7.4 billion people on earth. Someone is going to say yes at some time somewhere. Don’t over think – just don’t give up. Seek out a mentor who is not going to be jealous of your success. He is been there and done that.
Stay in touch with your thoughts and feelings. Give yourself some credit. It is easy to say ‘I appreciate you’ but why not, pat yourself on the back. Or even say, I appreciate myself for all the hard work and commitment I have put in. Treat yourself nicely. For all those matters, remember what is the ‘why’ behind everything you do? Your reason for a smile and being happy is not in waiting for that Monday diet to begin; it is in today, just do it. Don’t overjudge and overthink. Success is hidden between trial and error.
Amna Khaliq is a Business Management Instructor at Northern Lights College. The views expressed are her own. She believes that kindness, smiles, love, and yawning is contagious. In her spare time, she likes travelling, cooking, reading and working out.
