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Life Has No Rules

Jun 2, 2016, 11:22 AM

I think that Life has no rules. Today you read tips and advice, prescriptive ways to be better, live better and achieve more. Many of these tend to pass a This-Way-Is-The-Only-Way-And-There-Is-No-Other-Way message.

I believe that there are multiple roads to wealth, health, success and failure. You can afford to take a wrong turn here or there.

You never really know where decisions will lead you until you take them. And you always have more than one option. Some paths look scarier than others, obstructed and challenging; some look easier and more inviting.

We all have to put ourselves out there at one time or another, and take a leap of faith. Whether it’s to do with matters of the heart and allowing ourselves to get hurt emotionally, or whether it’s taking a big business gamble, we have to make decisions without knowing the outcome. Of course we hope that it will all pay off beautifully, but we don’t and can’t ever truly know. Indeed, some magic of life would be removed if we did.

People promote paths that they know worked for them. They might work for you too, but they might not. There’s often no right or wrong. Listen to your gut, trust your instinct, believe in yourself, be ok with the chance of getting it wrong.