5 Golden Principles To Live An Extraordinary Life

Have you ever thought about what kind of extraordinary life you want to have in the future? Wait, or do you think that living a great life is even possible for you? Do not worry, everyone has the same opportunity to live the successful life they desire, if they follow through and acknowledge these 5 golden life principles… 

1. Life is hard

Yes, admit it, life is hard. Some people may say that if we think that life is hard, it will be hard for us. This is true, but somehow you do not want to live an ordinary life. What you want is something different, something special that makes you happy, wealthy, satisfied, healthy and more. In other words, you want to live a successful life, which is not something easy to achieve.

And you are going to create all the amazing results out from nothing. I believe that we all start from the same point. We are not rich and this is why we are pursuing for wealth. Therefore, life is going to be hard, but if you are willing to work on it, you can create amazing results in your life and make it extraordinary.

It is just like what Bill Gates says, ‘life is not easy and it is unfair’. You cannot choose which country you want to be born in and you cannot choose what family you want to be in as well. What you can do if you are the less fortunate one is to tough it out. Although that life can be hard and unfair, we all are presented with the same opportunity to succeed in life.

You can live the kind of life you want and be successful no matter who you are, even if you are uneducated or handicapped. If you are poor today, it is great news because most rich people were once poor in their lives and that is what makes them to achieve more in their lives. If you are uneducated or a college dropout, it does not really matter because there are a lot of successful people out there who are the same with you. If you are handicapped, you can still use your potential to make a difference in life.

So accept that life is not easy and you have to sweat to climb before you reach to the top. The most important lesson for you to learn here is that everyone of us are presented with the same opportunity to be successful in life.

2. You cannot control everything

The second life principle is that you simply cannot control everything. Yes, some things happen in our lives without our control. Just like an accident, you simply cannot control it. I believe that nobody here wishes to be in an accident, but somehow it will just happen.

Like natural disaster, nobody can control it, but it will happen anyway. Narrow the scope down to a smaller area in your daily life, you cannot control what your boss, your colleagues and your friends think about you as well. However, what you can do is to control your own thoughts and emotion.

Here is the key lesson, you cannot control the wind, but you can definitely control your sail to reach your destination. To put it in another perspective, we cannot control what happen most of the time, but we can surely control our thoughts and our emotion.

When a car overtakes you while driving, what will you think and how do you feel? Some people will get angry and try to overtake that car. Some people will just feel nothing because to them, it is just simply traffic. What do you feel when your boss scold you because you are not doing your work well enough? It depends, you can get angry and quit. Or you can learn from the experience and think of it as that your boss really cares about you and your work and he really wants you to improve.

In fact, this golden life principle is going to be the key factor that will determine your success in life. You cannot control most of the event out there and because of this; you have to learn to control your thought and your emotion. Whenever you understand about this, you can then create the extraordinary results you want in life because no matter what happen to you, you will always look for a brighter side that can help you move forward in life.

3. Everything happens for a reason

The third golden life principle is that everything in life happens for a reason. There must be a cause to every effect, just like what has been explained by the Law of Cause and Effect. You will reap what you sow, period.

If you are hard working right now and you take consistent action toward your goals, you will eventually achieve what you want in the future. It is not by accident. You can plan for it and you can create the results that you want.

If you fail your examination, there must be a reason behind it as well. It can be that you are not hard working enough to study the subject, or it can be many other reasons. The point is that it happens for a reason. In case if something bad such as an accident happen to you, guess what, there is a reason for it as well.

I am not saying that you deserve it when something bad happen, it is just that everything happens for a reason. If an accident happens, it must have something that has triggered it. It could be careless driving and so on. The main point is for you to understand that living a successful life is not by luck or chance, it is purely by design because there is a reason for it to happen.

4. You can learn anything you want

Another awesome life principle is that you can learn anything you want in life. There are tons of information available to you in the internet. Remember, we are living in an information age, there are all sort of information available to us with a click of a mouse.

So make good use of this. What you can do with all this information is that you can learn to become who you want to be. You can learn through books, articles, workshops, audio learning and many more these days. You can learn how to cook better, how to be a better parent, how to plant a bonsai, how to fish, how to play golf, how to make money from the internet and many more. The possibility is unlimited.

This information is available to most people out there. Thus, use this information wisely to help you getting what you want in your life. Make it habit to always learn and improve your knowledge and skill.

5. You can be lucky as well

Do you think that successful people are lucky? Do you think that you need luck to be successful? Like what you have learned above, success is by design, not by luck or chance. As long as you work hard and smart to move toward your goal and your dream, you will eventually reach there.

So what if you think that you are unlucky? Well, you can increase your luck by working harder and never give up on what you want. For example, Soichiro Honda is someone who increases his luck through hard work and never gives up. He eventually created the Honda Corporation and earned handsome rewards. You can read about his biography and you will understand why and how he increased his luck.

Now, use these 5 principles to help you in your journey to success.

Never Give Up !!

This is a very crucial key for you if you want to succeed. No matter in your career or in your life,success will never come automatically. You must never give up if you desire for success. If you insist, keep on your hard work, in the end, the wealth will be yours, prosperity will be yours. You must know that this is the spirit that you need to succeed in your life.

Allow me to give you an example here. If you took a hammer, and hit the wall inside a house. What will happen? Nothing will happen, what you will get is just a loud “bang!” But what if you keep on hitting and hitting the very same wall? You will get a huge hole in the end; you can even make the whole house collapse with just a hammer. Therefore you see, many things which seem like impossible to happen. But if we keep on working on it without giving up, you will find that we can actually create something impossible.

Look around you; do you have any friends who are very rich and successful? Let me tells you, if you have this kind of friend, they must be very hard working. And you know what, they’ve been hard working for many years, maybe they’ve been very hard working for 10 or 20 years. However, if you are very lazy, the whole story will be different. If you are lazy for just one day, it is OK.

But if you keep on your laziness for 2 days, 3 days, 1 week, 1 month, 1 year, 5 years and so on. Your laziness will become a massive destructive force which tends to destroy your life. If you see someone who lives a frustrated live, poor, this is maybe he or she is lazy. But let me remind you, this person is not only lazy for a few days, maybe he or she had been lazy for 10 or 20 years.

Every successful people out there face a lot of ups and downs in their route to success. But they insist and keep moving on. They turn the destructive force into energy and inspire them to keep moving on. Like what I mentioned just now, success will never come automatically. You will need to face many problems and challenges before you reach your target. Just like climbing a mountain, you will need to cross all the obstacles and climb all the way before you can eventually reach the top.

Actually I’m very impressed with those who had created amazing results in their life. A lot of people who pursue for success give up in the end. And they waste a lot of their precious time the moment they give up. Why did I say so? Let me gives you a metaphor.

Imagine that there is a stone in front of you. You keep on hitting it until it breaks. If the stone breaks after you hit it for the 99 times, do you think that it is the 99th times that make the stone breaks? Absolutely not! The 1st to the 98th times do contribute to break that stone. Well, this is what happens in real life. Many people hit the stone until half way, say 50th times and they found that the stone is not breaking, they give up and stop hitting it. What they do then is that they search for other stone and hit it again. They keep on hitting and hitting, again, the stone never break and they give up again. So you see, they’ve wasted the time and energy of hitting the first 50th times and get no result.

A quitter will never win and a winner will never quit. Look at Thomas Edison, how many times did he fail? Some people say that he failed more than 10,000 times before he invented the light bulb. If he gives up, his name will never be known today. The thing here is that, he fails 10,000 times just to find out how light can be emitted. If he never fails before, it is impossible for him to know which material works and which doesn’t. The same goes to you, the reason for you to fail is to find out how to become more successful.

Well, don’t worry if you fail, because nobody will remember about your failures after you succeed. Don’t believe in me? Look back at Thomas Edison, what will you think about him the moment you heard his name? I’m sure that you will think of that he is a great man; he is a very successful person who invented the light bulb. So you see, you are not going to think about his failure, like he had failed 10,000 times.

The same goes to Donald Trump, the moment you hear his name, the first thing comes into your mind is that he is a real estate billionaire; he made his fortune with properties. You are not going to think that he is someone who once bankrupted and owed millions of dollars. Actually, Donald Trump’s failure even becomes the inspiration story for many people. This is the same as Thomas Edison, his 10,000 times failures become the motivation for many people.

Every successful people were once a failing person, but they did not give up and they know exactly that if they continued, they will achieve success, and they did. Therefore, it does not matter if you fail today, people will not remember about your failure after you have succeeded. I hope that you can understand what I’m trying to say here. Always remember, if you want success, then there will be no giving up in your dictionary. There is no failure in this world; people fail only because they give up. So keep this key in your pocket today and use it to unlock the door to your success.

I Am Talented !!

Now, this is another key you will require if you want to be successful. You need to believe that you are talented! You must have the confident to overcome every obstacle that you face in your journey to success. Scientists claim that we human only use approximately 10-15% of our brain in our life. And the rest, we never used it.

Albert Einstein, one of the most famous scientists of our time is so talented, that after he died, other scientists break up his head and check on his brain. And what do you think that they’ve found? They’ve found that his brain is bigger than normal people? No, this is not true. His brain is exactly the same as yours and mine.

So what makes him so clever and such a genius? It is because Albert Einstein used up 20% of his brain, his IQ. So you see, he only uses 20% of his brain and yet he became the most famous scientist, nobody understands the theory he explained, he is a genius. Therefore now you can see, we humans are very talented. We already have the resources that we need to succeed.

Look at yourself. From your head until your toes. You are a miracle. God already created the most amazing creature in this world, which will be us, humans. Why did I say so? Human is the most perfect animal in this world. We can walk, run, swim; we can communicate with each other. We are perfect. So far scientist still cannot create a computer which is as powerful as your brain. Even if scientist can create such a computer, but I tell you, it will not be as small as your brain.

Hence you must make use of your brain to the fullest. In fact, you already have all the internal resources you need in order to be successful. We basically have the same internal resources, what I mean here is, the same bio-computer. But then why there are some people who are so talented, they can sing so well, why are there people who can solve mathematical equations so well?

To discover the answer, you need to understand how your brain works. Your brain which consists of more than 1,000 billion neurons, each capable of processing information at a speed greater than a P4 personal computer.

Your talents, our skills all are determined by your brain, which will be how your neurons are connecting. So, if someone who is very talented in mathematics, it is because he has a richer neuro-connection in the area of mathematical-logical thinking. Your neuro-system will develop once you were born, and after that you will get influenced by role model around you. You can be very talented in singing, but you may have less talent in calculus.

Just like what I said in my blog, the best investment is to invest in yourself, in your brain, your mindset. If you invest in yourself, you are not going to make ten percent of return like in mutual funds, or even twenty percent of return like in stock. You are looking at a thousand percent returns from the investment of your brain.

All the knowledge and skills that you acquired with your brain will stay forever with you. There was once a person asked Henry Ford this question before, “What if I take away all of your money and assets?” And did you know what did Henry Ford answered? He said that, “Well give me 3 years, and I will be back at current wealth position”.

Can you see that wealth is just some kind of financial knowledge? Once you acquire them, they will be with you forever. Just like Henry Ford, if you take all his money, he still can create another wealth empire. Money is just the product of your hard work; it is nothing but the score to keep you going.

You already have all the resources that you need to succeed. Success is all about mindset and beliefs. If you think that you can do it, then you can. And if you think that it is impossible or hard, then it will be exactly just like what you think. Our mind plays an important role in shaping the man that we can be. Success require no secret, all you need are just hard work and determination.

Having said all that, you must believe in yourself that you are talented in everything you do. You must first have the confident then only the route to success will be easier. Keep this key with you, always have confident with yourself.