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11 Reasons Why You Will Never Get What You Want In Life
3 min readJun 6, 2022
- You do not persist until you get it. Instead you give up at the first signs of failure.
- You were not ready for it. But you took that as a defeat rather than a challenge.
- You don’t recognize the things you do get. Your attention is only on what you do not have and the things you could have done.
- You’re not lucky. You do not get the lucky breaks at the right time, or do not know how to use the ones you do get. “If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? Stanislaw J.
- You value your emotions over what matters. You are not willing to do those few important tasks because you do not “feel like it”. You rely on motivation rather than action.
- You avoid taking Responsibility. Rather than work for it you sit on the couch, praying, hoping and wishing that it will somehow appear.
- You consume more than you produce. You know enough already but keep thinking that learning more will make it more likely that you will discover the “Easy button”.
- You refuse to improve and therefore stagnate. This is likely because you just hope to get better passively and that time, more than effort, will make things happen for you.
- You don’t do what matters. You answer emails instead of…
