10 Painfully Obvious Truths Everyone Forgets Too Soon

You know how you can hear something a hundred times in a hundred different ways before it finally gets through to you? The ten truths listed below fall firmly into that category – life lessons that many of us likely learned years ago, and have been reminded of ever since, but for whatever reason, haven’t fully grasped.

1. The average human life is relatively short.
2. You will only ever live the life you create for yourself.
3. Being busy does NOT mean being productive.
4. Some kind of failure always occurs before success.
5. Thinking and doing are two very different things.
6. You don’t have to wait for an apology to forgive.
7. Some people are simply the wrong match for you.
8. It’s not other people’s job to love you; it’s yours.
9. What you own is not who YOU are.
10. Everything changes, every second.

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10 Truths We Forget Too Easily

It’s surprising how easy it is to lose sight of the important things in life. Busy schedules and weekly routines have a tendency to put the brain on autopilot.

Some of life’s essential truths need repeating. Keep this list handy and give it a read any time you need a boost.

1. BEING BUSY DOES NOT EQUAL BEING PRODUCTIVE

2. GREAT SUCCESS IS OFTEN PRECEDED BY FAILURE

3. FEAR IS THE #1 SOURCE OF REGRET

4. YOUR SELF-WORTH MUST COME FROM WITHIN

5. YOU'RE ONLY AS GOOD AS THOSE YOU ASSOCIATE WITH

6. LIFE IS SHORT

7. YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT FOR AN APOLOGY TO FORGIVE

8. YOU'RE LIVING THE LIFE YOU'VE CREATED

9. LIVE IN THE MOMENT

10. CHANGE IS INEVITABLE - EMBRACE IT

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88 Important Truths I’ve Learned About Life

Everyone gets drilled with certain lessons in life. Sometimes it takes repeated demonstrations of a given law of life to really get it into your skull, and other times one powerful experience drives the point home once forever.

Here are 88 things that Mr. David, the author of Raptitude -- a blog for getting better at being human, has discovered about life, the world, and its inhabitants and listed in his post.

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