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Mark Twain’s Top 7 Tips for Living a successful Life

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Mark Twain was a writer and also a humorist, satirist and lecturer. Here are success tips from some of his quotes.

  1. Approve of yourself.

“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”

If you do not approve of yourself, of your behavior and actions then you will probably walk around most of the day with a sort of uncomfortable feeling. In contrast, if you approve of yourself, then you tend to become relaxed and gain inner freedom to do more of what you really want. This can, in a related way, be a big obstacle in personal growth. You may have all the right tools to grow in some way but you feel an inner resistance. You now put up barriers in your own mind of what you may or may not deserve. You need give yourself approval and allow yourself to be who you want to be. Not seeking for the approval from others but from yourself to dissolve that inner barrier. This is not an easy task and it can take time.

 

  1. Your limitations may just be in your mind.

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”

So many limitations are mostly in our minds. We may for instance think that people will disapprove because we are too tall, too old or too young. These things mostly matter when you think they matter because you become self-conscious and worried about what people may think and people pick up on that and may react in negative ways. You may also interpret anything they do as a negative reaction because you are so fearful of a bad reaction and so focused inward on yourself. If you do not mind, then people tend to not mind that much either.

 

  1. Lighten up and have some fun.

“Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.”

“Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.”

Humor and laughter are amazing tools. They can turn any serious situation into something to laugh about. They can lighten the mood just about anywhere. A lighter mood is often a better space to work in because now your body and mind is not filled to the brim with negative emotions. When you are more lighthearted and relaxed then the solution to a situation is often easier to both come up with and implement.

  1. Let go of anger.

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.” Anger is most of the time pretty pointless. It can cause situations to get out of hand. From a selfish perspective, it is often more hurtful for the one being angry then the person he or she is angry at. So even if you feel angry at someone for days recognize that you are mostly just hurting yourself. The other person may not even be aware that you are angry at him or her, so you can choose to either talk to the person and resolve the conflict or let go of anger as quickly as possible.

  1. Release yourself from entitlement.

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

You may feel like the world should just give you what you want or that it owes you something. This belief can cause a lot of anger and frustration in your life. Because the world may not give you what expect it to. On the other hand, this can be liberating too. You realize that it is up to you to shape your own life and for you to work towards what you want. You are in the driver’s seat and you can go just wherever you want.

 

  1. Keep your focus steadily on what you want.

“Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.”

What you focus your mind on greatly determines how things play out. You can focus on the positive in situation and what you can learn from that situation or just focus your mind on something entirely else. It may be “normal” to dwell on problems and swim around in a sea of negativity but that is only a choice. You can also start to build a habit of learning to gain more and more control of where you put your focus.

  1. Do what you want to do.

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did so. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

Awesome quote.  There isn’t much to add to this. Just write this down somewhere and keep it as a daily reminder.

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