I've heard it from a large number of people. "Manage" "Make do with what you have" "Live your life in this particular way" "Things are tough, so drop your lofty dreams and settle for less".

Things like these are said everyday to different people around the world. Everyday you're told to manage and settle for things you don't want because life is not a bed of roses.

You start listening to them and you take up the job you know you clearly hate. You study the course you don't like. You marry the person you don't want to, because you think it's impossible to find the person you want.

You start settling for average things instead of continuing to pursue those things that your heart really yearns for.

Guess what? You start getting these inferior things. You become stuck with that job. You find yourself studying a course you don't like. You find yourself living your entire life with a partner you never really loved.

And when you're stuck with these things, you become unhappy because this is not what you wanted out of your life. You're forced to now manage forever because you listened to others and settled for less.

If you're like me, I believe you don't want to live the rest of your life unhappy. I believe that you believe in yourself and you have faith that you can get what you really want out of life.

Whoever is telling you to settle for anything lesser than what you truly want is trying to put you in a prison where unhappy people live.

I'm not saying you shouldn't take advice at all. Advice is good, but you are the One who ultimately decides whether to accept them or not. Only accept them when you truly feel it is the right thing to do.

Don't take advice out of fear or peer pressure. Take advice because it really vibrates with your spirit. Very few people have the capacity to give you such advice. The majority will give you mediocre advice targeted at making you live a boring, unhappy and average life.

You should not listen to them. Follow your heart. Believe in God and believe that you will get what you want. Work steadily towards it and someday your dream will stare you right in the face.

Until next time,
Keep winning!

source: http://www.boldwinner.com/2016/10/dont-settle-for-less.html

I don't like a mediocre around me, whenever a person tells me to take a decision i know is "settling for less", i stop going around such people because i love challenges and always aim for better things.

Benita27:
I don't like mediocre around me, whenever a person tell me to take a decision i know is "settling for less", i stop going around such people because i love challenges and always aim for better things.

Great. That's the spirit. It's challenges that bring out the best in us. To hell with mediocrity.

Boldwinner:

Great. That's the spirit. It's challenges that bring out the best in us. To hell with mediocrity.

Lovely thread.

Op, sorry!, i had to modify this because of my e-enemies.

People should be bold enough to make the right choices for themselves and not be discouraged by circumstances, being able to withstand challenges make great people great.

miss/mrs benita, if you love challenge, then you better come down to ibadan here, its just a bus stop. it doesnt worth loving at all, there's nothing to that bus stop.. trust me.

kelval:
miss/mrs benita, if you love challenge, then you better come down to ibadan here, its just a bus stop. it doesnt worth loving at all, there's nothing to that bus stop.. trust me.

Hahaha.. where is this man from?

Boldwinner:
Hahaha.. where is this man from?

www.oracle.com would surely help you bro.

kelval:
miss/mrs benita, if you love challenge, then you better come down to ibadan here, its just a bus stop. it doesnt worth loving at all, there's nothing to that bus stop.. trust me.

Miss actually.
"Life is not a bed of roses".
Instead of looking for an easy way out, give it more time and you will be where you so desired.
Imagine students going for "law" and where given "social works", why not put more effort for another year instead of taking a course you won't make much impact at?.

Benita27:
Miss actually.
"Life is not a bed of roses".
Instead of looking for an easy way out, give it more time and you will be where you so desired.
Imagine students going for "law" and where given "social works", why not put more effort for another year instead of taking a course you won't make much impact at?.

They're afraid of losing one year, forgetting that they'd be losing about 5 years or more hurrying into a course they never wanted. Which one is better to lose 1 year or 5 years?

Boldwinner:

They're afraid of losing one year, forgetting that they'd be losing about 5 years or more hurrying into a course they never wanted. Which one is better to lose 1 year or 5 years?

Is it about losing 5 years?, there won't be joy in doing something you didn't bargain for...though!, some people make the best out of it.

Benita27:
Is it about losing 5 years?, there won't be joy in doing something you didn't bargain for...though!, some people make the best out of it.

some do actually because life has no fixed pattern. They can make the best out of it by still making the right choices from the wrong ones they've made.

Benita27:
Miss actually.
"Life is not a bed of roses".
Instead of looking for an easy way out, give it more time and you will be where you so desired.
Imagine students going for "law" and where given "social works", why not put more effort for another year instead of taking a course you won't make much impact at?.

e be like say you and boldwinner no fall victim for jamb shey? if to say you ever search admission, search, search ehn, una no go they here they yarn that kind thing.. so i dream to study bus admin buh after searching for admission for 5 years i later had offer in insurance and did it. i later find happiness in the course though and after school i had lota good job offer buh hell i dont even know where i kept my certificate. so my dear, no matter how hard you try, life will still f**k you. wherever life leads you just show to it you'd survive no matter what.. i think that's whats up.

kelval:
e be like say you and boldwinner no fall victim for jamb shey? if to say you ever search admission, search, search ehn, una no go they here they yarn that kind thing.. so i dream to study bus admin buh after searching for admission for 5 years i later had offer in insurance and did it. i later find happiness in the course though and after school i had lota good job offer buh hell i dont even know where i kept my certificate. so my dear, no matter how hard you try, life will still f**k you. wherever life leads you just show to it you'd survive no matter what.. i think that's whats up.

You show life that you'll still survive by taking the decisions that are really yours. The reason you still found happiness was dependent on the new decisions you took regarding The Course you decided to finally study. The point is: the earlier you make the right the choices, the better for you. You don't have to make the wrong choices first then start making right ones like you did.

You would've been in a much better position if you had stuck with the business admin that you really wanted. You never can tell where sticking with your heart desire can get you.

So the earlier you stick, the better. Don't make a wrong move, then start trying to stick. You waste your time. And time is everything in our world.

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