How To Get Out Of The Rat Race?

Well, Before I answer the question "how to get out of the rat race?", I would like first to define a rat race and it's main characteristics. In my opinion a rat race is a group of rats (or lets say people acting like mindless rats) trying to race their way either out of some danger or toward some goal. And I suppose that randomness is the main characteristic of a rat race... But wait, Winners in such a race are never chosen randomly!!!! There is luck, But there are also hard workers. And here is how hard workers go out of a rat race!

Well, Before I answer the question "how to get out of the rat race?", I would like first to define a rat race and it's main characteristics. In my opinion a rat race is a group of rats (or lets say people acting like mindless rats) trying to race their way either out of some danger or toward some goal. And I suppose that randomness is the main characteristic of a rat race... But wait, Winners in such a race are never chosen randomly!!!! There is luck, But there are also hard workers. And here is how hard workers go out of a rat race!

1- Know yourself,

Yes, Know Yourself, This is your start point, your first step in the long journey of your successful life. You should know everything about yourself, what do You like? what do You hate? what makes You happy? What makes You sad? what empowers You? what weakens You? And most important: What are your goals?

2- Know your friends,

It doesn't mean that everybody is your enemy only because he or she is racing with You. You can't live all by yourself and You can't live all to yourself...

You will always need somebody to help You, to teach You, to guide You and sometimes to comfort You.Plus working together in groups has proven to give the best results in the shortest time. There's another benefit for having friends along the way because your friend is your mirror... so if you think that your friend is not doing well start to worry about your own self.

3- Know your enemy,

We all have enemies, this is the nature of our life and a complete peaceful world never exist... And knowing your enemy is an important factor if you decide it's time to fight him and be warned because your real enemy could be your own self. Time is the enemy of all human beings since the beginning of the universe.

4- Take care of false friends,

Those are people that seems to be your friends but deep inside them they are not: like the ones that would tell your secrets, or the ones that will give you weak excuses every time you need them. Also some habits and ideas could be false friends like believing that all the people of a certain color or race are bad.

5- Have a model to follow,

Find yourself a model or two to follow their steps to success and try to find the models that started in similar circumstances like yours. This will remind You that it is possible to achieve your goals. But remember: I said follow their steps and not copy their steps,,, What is good for someone is not always suitable to the other even in the same circumstances.

6- Be Yourself,

Remember when I said "Know Yourself"?! Now I say be yourself!! If You know yourself well enough then you don't need others to think for you or to tell you what to do or what's good for You. Be yourself means be unique, be different and don't be like butterflies and rush together towards the flames and get burnt. People with genuine ideas are the only ones that achieve great success,,,Can you tell me how was the computer before Bill Gates?

7- Keep learning,

There's something new every moment those days, and what you have learned is not enough, believe me what you have learned in school or university is essential but it's not going to take you anywhere, simply because everybody knows it, and people have made quite every use possible from that old stuff... You should learn new things if you want to get new ideas other than those that people already got...

8- Plan it,

You sure noticed that the main characteristic of the rat race is the randomness, everybody act randomly, decide randomly and this is why they get lost in most case. You will need to plan everything if you are really willing to get out of that race as a winner. And the best way to plan anything in general is to divide things into a long term goal and short term goals. The short term goals are a series of goals that depend on each other gradually and the total of those short term goals is your long term goal.

Ex. You want to become a millionaire and you have only 1000$
Then: Your long term goal is 1000 000$ (say in 3 years)
Your first short term goal is to turn your 1000$ into 10 000$ (say in one year)
Your second term goal is to turn the 10 000$ from your first short term goal into 100 000$ (say in one year)
Your third short term goal is to turn the 100 000$ from your second short term goal into 1000 000$ (say in one year)

Which achieves your long term goal (in the total of 3 years).

You should also decide the period of time that you will need to achieve your mini goals and the the total time that you will need to achieve your great goal,,, comparing what you have achieved within a given period of time to your short term goals and your long term goal will be a good progress indicator to your performance...

9- You will do it,

If You doubt You can get out of that rat race then forgive me, but you are not going anywhere. Be confident and take things at your own speed. What if You fail? Keep trying... You will do it someday.

10- We are still human,

It's nice to work hard, nice to study hard, nice to achieve goals. But we don't forget that we do all that to make our life better. So, it doesn't make sense if we work so so hard that we end up sick or depressed... A bit of music, a little laugh, a nice walk, some time with family and friends and a lot of fun is not forgotten because we are human still.

This is how I believe we can get out of the rat race in simple words: Knowledge, Planning and Insistence are the key words.

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