My 10 Rules for Success
My 10 Rules of Success are listed below:
1. Persevere
Perseverance could lead you to success in everything you do, like in every task you need to finish. Such as when you are doing something then you thought that it would perfectly work. Then there an error occurred. You lost your motivation to work on it yet there is still a chance to make it work properly. You should try and try until you succeed. Like the quote from the movie of Walt Disney, Meet the Robinsons, states: “Keep Moving Forward.” You should never give up and do not be discourage easily.
2. Be yourself
Being yourself is just an easy thing to do, but for others, they had rough time doing it. To those people who had been too addicted with their idols, they tend to copy what they like, what they do and most especially their attitudes. Copying someone’s personality could not help you to learn who you really are. You would not know your real skills which may help you to be successful. You should be yourself so that you would know the field you are capable of.
3. Believe in yourself
Believing yourself could lead you to success. Some people do not believe on the skills and talents they have. One real reason about that is they may be discouraged by someone. They may have shared their skills but they got bullied and lost self-confidence. They might have been told that their works were ugly or useless. Then they will stop from enhancing their skills. You should not listen on people who are telling bad things about your works. Do not be discourage, instead make their negative comments an inspiration to work harder and at least they noticed your work. Who knows? They might be just jealous on the skills and talent you have.
4. Keep learning new things
Keep learning new things to make you more knowledgeable enough to reach your goal. Do not stop because you thought that you have a better life already. Like when you are satisfied in what you are and you are not aware that you can become greater than you are right now. Such as when you are good in drawing. You do not know that you can become greater than that, like become a famous animator. Maybe you will be the one who will continue the series of one of your favorite anime. So do not stop and keep learning.
5. Practice independence
You should practice independence and stop depending from other people. Like every time you have home works, you tend to be lazy and prefer doing other things. You know that your classmates will make their home works, so you depend on them and just copy their works. You should stop doing it because it is not only that you would not need to waste your precious time doing your home works, but because you could not learn anything from doing it. Start being independent from them, start to learn how to do things on your own. By that, you will know that you have been succeeded once you finish a task on your own.
6. Follow instructions
Following instructions should be practice by everyone. Like every professor told us, follow instructions properly and do not do things unnecessary. This is your stepping stone to success. After you learned how to follow instructions, you will understand the system. You began to realize how you can improve things thus, called thinking outside the box. Like when you are having an examination, then you did not follow the instructions. You will surely get a low grade even you answer it correctly. It is like you did everything to pass that examination yet it is useless and your effort was wasted because you did not follow a simple instruction that was the education system. After that you will graduate, same in work, you will start low and following instructions but eventually become the big boss after you learned the system and seek opportunity to it.
7. Time Management
To be successful, you should learn how to manage time. Starting from even a small task, you should properly manage the time so that you can finish it in the given time. Like having a lot of projects, you should start making them early before the deadline comes. Yet you still also need to do your assigned household chores. To be able to do them all, start managing your time and stop procrastinating so that you do not need to rush in doing your projects.
8. Seek help if needed
In doing our assigned task, we really need to do them on our own. Because we believe in our skills, we tried to do our task alone even though there are times we experience difficulties. If a time will come that you will experience fails from doing it. We should seek help from other people if needed because not all the time we can do things alone. There are really times that we need others to help to make things possible.
9. Accept negative feedbacks
In everything we do, feedbacks from other people is always there, most especially negative feedbacks. Whenever we finish something, like an artwork, we cannot avoid feedbacks from others, either positive or negative feedbacks. Base on my experience, as I finish an artwork, some of my friends would tell me negative comments. Being discourage from what they say is not avoidable. The brighter side is, it is much better to receive negative comments from them. Because of that, I can enhance my skills and the things I am lacking of. I feel more inspired because they notice my work.
10. Be optimistic
Whenever we feel down because we experience failures in our life, chin up and be optimistic. It is not because you failed once, you will end and forget every dream you have. Being optimistic sometimes is not that bad. It will help you gain more knowledge and do better or even best.
