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--------------- IMPORTANT THINGS TO LEARN BEFORE GRADUATION ---------------
"Making a Living" is not the same thing as "Making a Life"
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To be a TROJAN means you are willing to develop a WARRIOR SPIRIT!
Be a LIFE LONG LEARNER - LEARN and GROW in everything you can because there is no free ride in life.
WORK HARD -Embrace the grind, dig deep and work hard at giving your best. In fact, doing your best is the only option, even if it ends in failure.
Pain and struggle are constant in our time on earth. Pain is not our enemy - it shows us where we need to grow. Push through pain and discomfort.
Learn how to live sore - Learn how to live uncomfortable - learn how to make sacrifices. You have to do the HARD THINGS to get where you need to go.
NO EXCUSES - Excuses only sound good to the person who makes them, and they only explain to others why you are too weak to complete the task.
Develop Grit - which includes - Drive - Persistence - Endurance - Heart - Character - Fight.
You ALWAYS have a CHOICE - You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you have complete control on how you respond to it.
Don't be afraid to TAKE RISKS -Do the hard things in life and invest in things that have value. There is no passion to be found in playing small.
If you want to succeed, you have to be willing to try something and fail. Have the guts to FAIL BIG - its the only way to WIN BIG.
The point of life is - LOVE and RELATIONSHIPS - It always comes down to people.
Fight for those who can't fight for themselves - Take care of people - Be a protector of others.
In order to GET respect - you have to GIVE respect first.
Don't just aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference while you pursue your dreams.
The following things are HARD TO LEARN but they will GREATLY impact how your life turns out.
Delayed Gratification
Resist the temptation to take an immediate available reward, with the hope of obtaining a more valuable future reward.
In other words - choose NOT to do something now, even though you can; that way you can get a better reward LATER.
Long Term Thinking
Patience vs Speed - Almost everything meaningful in life takes a lot of time and effort.
Everyone that is successful has put in long hours and long miles in order to succeed - You have to respect the process
Power of Compounding
Things build on each other over time.
Make the Power of Compounding work in your favor.
The things you do every single day, that don't look dramatic, that don't even look like they matter - do matter greatly! They make all the difference. They are SLIGHT EDGE DECISIONS. The difference between success and failure is so subtle that most people miss it. It comes down to the simple, little, mundane choices that you face every day and every minute, between a SIMPLE POSITIVE ACTION repeated over time, or a SIMPLE ERROR IN JUDGEMENT repeated over time. Making the Power of Compounding work in your favor means that you are making right choices and taking right actions over and over. It's truly easy to do. Ridiculously easy! But it is just as easy not to do. The challenge of it is that there is no immediate feedback. Those simple, little choices that you make throughout your day will have little to no noticeable impact on your day. BUT, those small choices compounded over time will dramatically impact how your life turns out. Stay in the process of right actions long enough to win. How long it takes, only God knows. Just know you are in the right process and take the next step... over and over.
As an example - Would you rather take $1,000,000 right now or 1 penny (.01 cents) doubled every day for 1 month?
The results of 1 penny (0.1 cents) doubled every day for 1 month
Live in the moment - Pay attention to people - Serve others
Focus on growing in the fruits of the Spirit, such as
love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
Live life in such a way that if someone speaks badly of you, nobody will believe them.
