What Potential Does Your Life Have?
How to achieve your dreams depends on the life strategy you adopt.
‘I once dreamed of riding a sword across the country, seeing the prosperity of the world.’ With Wei Xu’s songs, we have our former dreams, but few people who actually turn dreams into reality.
How to achieve your dreams depends on your life strategy.
‘Your Life Has What Potential’ talks about a green rabbit’s story. A god gave a man a book, telling him he would meet a girl with green shoes, they would walk hand-in-hand in the rain, spend their honeymoon in Paris, have two lovely children, and spend a happy old age.
So he set off, hoping to meet a girl with green shoes. Along the way, he met girls who fell in love with him, but they didn’t have green shoes, so he rejected them all. Until he became an old man, he lived a lonely life without love.
He didn't realize that when he met a girl he liked, he could also give her a pair of green shoes.This story tells us how to achieve your dreams depends on your life strategy.
The first life strategy is ‘Meet’. Using feelings to determine our lives, if we don’t like the current life, we rush to the next stop.The second life strategy is ‘Positioning’. Believing that there is a suitable target for ourselves in the world, and finding it and realizing it. Based on these goals, we first figure out what we want, then make a detailed plan, and then step by step achieve it.
The third life strategy is ‘Creation’. Not believing that there is any ready-made life answer, hoping that we ourselves create. The most important thing in life is not success or immediate pleasure, but the process of pursuing our life goals. First find a goal, try to cultivate your own abilities, expand your horizons, and gradually strengthen your abilities. When your abilities and horizons become stronger, there will be no obstacles to stop us from creating the life we want.These three life strategies, which one do you choose? When we choose the ‘Meet’ life strategy, the feeling of freedom and spontaneity is good, but there is a risk of not meeting, and it’s difficult to control. We find that our carefree attitude leads to embarrassment in middle age, and if we don’t plan our lives in advance, it’s difficult to find suitable opportunities after 35, and we can only continue to struggle in a forced smile.
If we plan our lives in advance and position ourselves, this changeable era often makes it difficult to aim for the target. Some people study for many years and graduate, and then find high-paying jobs in first-tier cities, bearing heavy housing mortgages. Some people are unremarkable, staying in their hometowns, effortlessly obtaining huge sums of money from land compensation. If the person who sold the old house goes to the city to settle down and enjoy the city’s various resources, doesn’t that feel like a completely different world?Perhaps five years ago, you wanted a house and a car, a high-paying job. Five years later, you just wanted a courtyard, more time to accompany your family. Therefore, the world is changing too quickly, and our thinking and values are also constantly changing.
What we experience today is nothing that ten years ago people knew about. This means that the world we will face in the future has no experience to learn from, let alone how to achieve our dreams by positioning our lives.
Therefore, it’s unreliable to plan our lives in advance, because the environment is changing, and our thinking and values are also changing. The most reliable life strategy is to remain unchanged in the face of change, learn and cultivate the ability to live well wherever you are. When we have enough vision and ability, we can create our own lives no matter where we are.
The author in ‘Your Life Has What Potential’ tells us that...
How to train our abilities in reality, break the gap between ideals and reality, and cultivate ourselves to become life masters, and create value in the field we like, and live a happy life.
The significance of hard work is to pursue happiness. The happiest thing in life is to live happily in the way you want. Many people work hard for a meal, and some people strive for success, but still feel unhappy. Could it be that we satisfy our need for happiness, and also become a life master, living the life we want?
How to find your interests?
I’ve been writing for a long time, and I’m painful, but I can’t stop. It feels uncomfortable if I don’t write a day, but I can always finish it. Interests are what you can’t let go of, and you can’t forget. So to develop interests into abilities, we need to find our interests, and then develop them into our abilities. What is something you’re getting better and better at?Setting a reachable goal, repeatedly, to increase the level of interest.
Interest is not innate, but a self-management skill. Once we find our interests, we must continue to cultivate them.
Second, we must have talent and ability.
Third, we must persevere and be opportunistic.
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