Taking opportunities when they arise is a fundamental aspect of living a fulfilling and rewarding life

In a world filled with distractions and uncertainties, it's crucial to possess superpowers that can help us navigate through life and achieve our goals. While traditional superpowers may exist only in the realm of fantasy, each one of us has unique abilities that, when harnessed, can propel us towards success.

First impressions are crucial when it comes to meeting someone new. It is often said that we form an opinion about someone within the first few seconds of meeting them, and this can have a lasting impact on our relationship with them. In fact, research has shown that it takes just seven seconds for us to form a first impression of someone.

Change is a constant and inevitable part of life, but it can be scary to take the leap and embrace it. However, it's important to take a chance on change because it can lead to personal growth, new experiences, and improved opportunities.

Life is not a journey to discover who we are, but rather a path to create who we want to be. We often get lost in the search for our true identity, thinking that it will reveal itself to us if we just look hard enough. But the truth is, our identity is not something that we find, it is something that we create.

A lot of the time achievement and worth are often intertwined in our society, leading people to believe that their worth is determined by their level of accomplishment

Resilience is an essential quality for navigating life's challenges, setbacks and obstacles. It helps us to recover from setbacks more quickly and bounce back stronger than before. While some people might be naturally resilient, the good news is that resilience can be learned and developed. Here are six steps to help you become more resilient:

Embracing the positives in life can be a powerful way to improve your overall well-being and outlook on life.

So, the last time you failed at something what did you do?  Most of us are embarrassed about letting anyone know that we have failed, so we hide our failure from the rest of the world and sometimes ourselves, not wanting to accept that we had failed.  We have grown up learning about succeeding and not many of us learnt about failure in our younger years.

It’s great to have expectations of how our life will turn out but it isn’t good to form an attachment to a specific outcome because life has a funny way of changing it.

How many times do we look in the mirror and always seem to find something wrong with ourselves? We never seem to be happy with ourselves as we see it. We always want to be just those few kilos lighter or heavier, our hair curlier, thicker or straighter, those few less wrinkles or that little bit younger or older.

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