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Learn & Live Your Life!!!Learn & Live Your Life!!!

When you lose someone, your heart breaks wide open, and the bad news is you never completely get over the loss. You will never forget them. However, in a backwards way, this is also the good news. They will live on in the warmth of your broken heart that doesn’t fully heal back up, and you will continue to grow and experience life, even with your wound.  

1.  The people you lose remain a part of you.1.  The people you lose remain a part of you.

Happiness comes most easily when you know what you’re doing, believe in what you’re doing, and love what you’re doing (and who you’re doing it with), regardless of how things turn out. What you are really pursuing is meaning – living a meaningful life.  It starts with your “why.” When your “why” is meaningful, you are pursuing happiness.  

2. The pursuit of happiness is about finding meaning.2. The pursuit of happiness is about finding meaning.

Today, the only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday. Prove yourself to yourself, not others. You are GOOD enough, SMART enough, FINE enough, and STRONG enough. You don’t need other people to validate you; you are already valuable.

3. Seeking validation from others invalidates YOU.3. Seeking validation from others invalidates YOU.

If you’ve never lost your mind, you’ve never followed your heart. It’s better to look back on life and say, “I can’t believe I did that,” than to look back and say, “I wish I did that.” Don’t spend the rest of your life thinking about why you didn’t do what you can do right now.  Live your life.  Take risks.  Feel passion.  Discover love.  Run free. 

4. Regret hurts far worse than fear.4. Regret hurts far worse than fear.

With an open mind, you will find that life isn’t necessarily any easier or harder than you thought it was going to be; it’s just that “the easy” and “the hard” aren’t exactly the way you had anticipated, and don’t always occur when you expect them to.  This isn’t a bad thing; it makes life interesting. The key, of course, is to accept that not everything is meant to be.  

5. Life is too unpredictable for rigid expectations.5. Life is too unpredictable for rigid expectations.

When you focus on not thinking about something, you end up thinking about it. Running away from your problems is a race you’ll never win. Move TOWARDS something instead of AWAY.  Rather than trying to eliminate the negative, focus on creating something positive that just happens to replace the negative.  

6. When you try to run away, you end up running in place.6. When you try to run away, you end up running in place.

Sometimes life will beat you to the ground and try to keep you there if you let it. It’s not about how hard life can hit you, it’s about how hard you can be hit while continuing to move forward. That’s what true strength is, and that’s what winning the game of life is all about. learn what you can, laugh often, live for the moments, and know that it’s all worthwhile in the end.

7. Unanticipated hardships are inevitable and helpful.7. Unanticipated hardships are inevitable and helpful.

Gandhi once said, “Live as if you were to die tomorrow.  Learn as if you were to live forever.”  I love this quote.  There’s no doubt that every day is a gift, and the gift is an opportunity to live, to learn, and to grow.

Thank You Very MuchThank You Very MuchSompong YusoontornSompong Yusoontorn