I received a question from a friend. This question is ‘’How a person’s value in life is measured?’’

Now, to answer this question, we have to break it down into several sub-questions such as…

I have a lot of goals and things that I want to achieve. But sometimes I get demotivated or overwhelmed and say that this is too much, and sometimes I say to myself that I have the capability to do and achieve what I want, but I just need to act and execute.

I always dream of being perfect, and I want to do and achieve everything fast, especially since I am now over 30, and I feel that I am already late. This feeling sometimes makes me slow down or even freeze, and then suddenly I wake up and look at myself again to discover that days and even years passed by, and I am still in the same place, and nothing changed. What do you advise me to do?

When we were studying at school or university, the teachers and professors used to test our knowledge and readiness through Exams.

In each subject, we used to pass several exams throughout the year, and based on the results we always knew if we were ready and on the right road, or if we were moving in the wrong direction and if a change is needed.

More than 80 years ago, there was a young girl studying at school. And even though she was eight years old, but her future was already at risk.

Her schoolwork was not good. She was turning in assignments late, and her exam results were bad. Besides all of this, she was disturbing the whole class because of her continuous movement and fidgeting.

‘’I am not happy’’. This is a sentence that we hear now frequently from a lot of people around us, and even you, or I said it ourselves in the past. 

People spend their lifetime searching and doing things only to feel happy. Some people succeed in becoming happier and others do not.

A lot of people want to be more disciplined so that they can achieve their dreams and goals. If you want to learn more, work more, be healthier, or do anything else, you need to be more disciplined.

But before we speak about how to be more disciplined, it’s important that you understand the fact that the key to being more disciplined starts with your understanding of how discipline works.

The clock was pointing to 9 at night. The streets were almost empty except for the cars. The weather was freezing, and the temperature was -7 degrees Celsius. You do not want to be outside your home or even outside your car in this weather.

I want to start this article by telling you a story.

In the seventeenth century, there was a popular medical treatment called ''Perkins tractors''.

‘‘Perkins Tractors’’ were metal pointers, supposedly able to ‘‘pull out’’ disease from ill patients.

Almost all of us wish for more willpower.

We want to resist a piece of cake, stop smoking, or say ''no'' in some situations instead of saying yes and when we are not able to do this, we criticize ourselves by saying that we do not have willpower.

Ever passed through a bad situation in your business or private life, where you said to yourself ‘’I knew it was going to happen’’.

And even though you knew it was going to happen, you were not prepared for it to happen?

This is because you ignored the red flags.

Elephant handlers often train baby elephants to be submissive and to conform by chaining them to a metal set upright in the ground.

They’ll fight and do their best to break free. They’ll try day after day, but eventually, they just give up.

All of us pass through different hard situations in our lives.

Some of them end well, and some of them end badly. Some of them bring joy to our lives, and others cause pain.

This balance between good and bad things that happen to us is what’s called ‘’life’’.

If you ask any person if he or she wants to be successful, I assume 99.9% of the people will say ‘’Yes’’.

However, after answering and saying ‘’yes’’, the real question that everybody is trying to answer is ‘’How to be successful?’’

And my opinion is, before you start thinking about an answer to this question, you better prepare yourself for the journey of success by understanding and ‘’accepting’’ the two points mentioned in this article.