Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s fine. It’s not their journey to make sense of. It’s yours.
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Goals. Yes, you can try to make your life & environment “perfectly suitable” to achieve your goal. But you become dependent on these circumstances to achieve it. Real effectiveness lies in becoming disciplined & focused enough to achieve goals regardless of the circumstances.
— Zero Dean (@ZeroDean) January 20, 2019
Goals. If you have to console yourself after quitting, feel the need to play up being disappointed, or feel guilty when people say “It’s ok, you tried”, the chances are good you quit too easily.
You may be disappointed in quitting, but if you truly tried, you’ll also be proud.
— Zero Dean (@ZeroDean) January 19, 2019
Goals. Don’t quit when you’re angry. Don’t quit when you’re tired. Don’t quit when you’re upset. Don’t quit when you’re disappointed.
Only quit if you feel satisfied with your efforts & *truly* believe that moving on is in your best interest.
Otherwise, hangon & keepgoing!
— Zero Dean (@ZeroDean) January 19, 2019
If you’re starting to struggle with your NewYearsResolutions it’s probably because you’re trying to initiate too much change at once. This leads to feeling overwhelmed & quitting. Focus on making progress on 1 goal or 1 part of it & keepgoing. Add complexity/more goals later.
— Zero Dean (@ZeroDean) January 17, 2019
Don’t let discouragement keep you from reaching goals within your grasp. Understand that facing setbacks & being discouraged doesn’t have to lead to quitting. Change your tactics & strategy as needed, but only quit if you know it’s best for you. Otherwise, keep pushing yourself.
— Zero Dean (@ZeroDean) January 17, 2019
You likely won’t achieve every challenging goal you set for yourself, but there are always benefits in setting difficult goals & working towards them. Success is more than just achievement. Always be working towards things that you want & the benefits will appear in time.
— Zero Dean (@ZeroDean) January 10, 2019
It’s better to learn to recognize the value in challenging yourself & overcoming obstacles than it is to seek an easy life and try to avoid them all. Because no matter where you are in life, the challenges keep coming (but so, too, will the rewards for overcoming them).
— Zero Dean (@ZeroDean) January 4, 2019
Always remember that social media responses are not an accurate representation of people’s actual interest in your offerings. Users of social media platforms are always working against mechanisms that are intentionally kept a mystery.
Be very careful about using the response to something you or someone else posts as an indicator of its actual value. Lots of quality content goes unnoticed. And lots of crap gets promoted. Social media systems can easily be manipulated to make one thing appear more valued or popular than another.
Every platform has algorithms that are designed for the host’s benefit, not your own. And as long as there is a financial barrier between who can afford to pay for views and who cannot, it will never be a fair system based on the quality of the content.
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People can pay for all the things that can make them appear valued, popular, desirable, and successful. People can pay for views, pay for likes, pay for followers, and pay for engagement.
And all these things become part of a psychological phenomenon called social proof. And social proof can easily be leveraged to influence people to act and behave in ways that they wouldn’t if they knew the reality of a situation vs. what marketers and others want them to perceive to be true.
Social proof can also deter people from pursuing a chosen path because they get discouraged when they compare the results they’re getting with the results that someone else appears to be getting. It may simply be that someone is paying for those results. And even if they’re not… as I wrote in It’s your life and your path — keep going, “Remember, you’re living your life and walking your own path, not someone else’s. Just because someone else is making progress towards their goals is no reason for you to stop making progress towards your own.”
And as I wrote in Rejection, “If you believe in what you have to offer, then don’t stop offering it simply because some of those you offer it to reject it.” It may not be that what you have to offer is being rejected or ignored at all — it may just be that it is going unnoticed or hasn’t reached the right audience yet.
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Always seek ways to make progress in some area of your life even when you come to a standstill in another. Often, the key to making progress on one path can be found by making progress down another.
There is nearly always a way forward even if you have to take a step back to get there.
Opportunities await those willing to put in the effort.
Keep going.
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