To thrive in life, you should continue to learn and to grow and to evolve. And become better than the person you were yesterday. Better than you were at the beginning of this year. Better than the person you were last year and the year before and the one before.
No matter how good or accomplished you think you are, the truth is that there’s always room for improvement. There’s always something new to learn, and my Mum always said that no knowledge is ever a waste.
You should, therefore, invest in yourself.
Invest in learning, and growing and evolving.
Invest time, effort and money. And, don’t tell me you don’t have them. You can always find a way if you want it hard enough.
Dedicate resources to self-development.
Read.
Meditate.
Build your faith and spirit self up.
Volunteer.
Exercise.
Travel.
Learn a new language.
Talk to people who are different from you. People from countries and continents outside of your own.
Eat food that are different from what you know.
Become friends with people that are older than you. And the ones that are younger than you. And the ones that know more than you. And the ones that know less than you.
Take a dance class. Or a singing class. Or a creative writing class. Or a knitting class. Or a baking class. Or a cooking class…
Find yourself a mentor or a coach or just someone to inspire you.
Join an organisation. A positive and motivational one.
Go to conferences and seminars and workshops.
Do yourself and the rest of the world a favour, continue to learn and to grow and to evolve.
Thrive.
The moment you stop learning and growing and evolving, you become stagnant. And once you become stagnant, you start focusing on insignificant and irrelevant things. And there is no bigger killer than stagnancy. It is a slow and painful killer. And before it kills you, it’ll make you sour, defensive, bitter, angry, resentful, frustrated, and quarrelsome. It’ll make you poison that will smother and strangle people around you.
So, whatever you do, promise yourself never to stop learning and growing and evolving. Thrive while you are alive.
