Obviously we all want to be successful, but it seems we can’t achieve it by just wanting! We need to put lots of thoughts and energy on how to get there and how to stay there! First of all I think being successful can’t be in just one field. You should have balanced and complete success in all aspects of your life. And it’s not something easy to get! You may work hard, stay awake all the night, work for long hours and in one word, run and run all the life but it’s not success! You may achieve lots of things, you may get lots of trophies but if you’re not happy in all aspects of your life, then they don’t worth anything at all. Success is a comprehensive concept.
But how can I become successful if I’m not supposed to suffer sometimes?! That’s the art!
The thing is we all need to do or obtain things that aren’t very enjoyable or even bearable but are necessary for our goals. (exercising? studying? working?!) But just a successful person knows how to get them without suffering and feeling the pain! The one-line formula is “Just do what you enjoy!”. Doesn’t seem very sensible and rational? Change your mind!
There are lots of things we love to do, lots of things we enjoy doing and not all of them are killing time! You can get to very important things by just giving time to what you enjoy! A person who enjoys cooking can end up as a head chief in a very popular restaurant! Even if his major is computer science! What’s wrong about it?! He will do what he enjoys and also gets paid because of it! But not all our activities and priorities are as simple as this. There are situations that we need to do things (that mostly we don’t like them) to achieve higher and greater goals. What about them? It follows the same rule except that instead of doing what you enjoy, you should turn what you have to do, to what you would enjoy! This is really art but completely possible and doable. To give an example, let’s assume you don’t like reading history books but for some just-God-knows-why reasons you should get some information as a procedure of getting ready for a project in your company. Ok! you don’t like reading history, see some interesting films about that event, go to a museum with your friends and make fun of everything there! Call a history-related magazine or institute and introduce yourself as a researcher and ask them to give you some information just there by phone!! There can be lots of options that just you can come up with, but whatever you do, don’t do it the hard way! Don’t force yourself that I should read this book entirely by this week and everyday get upset about it! Even if you couldn’t found anything else than just reading the thing, don’t let the sadness to win! Just start reading a chapter that seems more fun from somewhere and then read the chapter before it! Don’t obey its rules and play with it. I’m sure you will end up having fun by yourself and besides getting done most of the work.
Maybe it wasn’t a very good example (or solutions!) but you got the idea!
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