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LM: 13 THINGS TO GIVE UP TO BE SUCCESSFUL

Things You Should Give Up If You Want To Be Successful. 


1. Give Up On The Unhealthy Lifestyle

“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” — Jim Rohn


2. Give Up The Short-term Mindset

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West


3. Give Up On Playing Small

“Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone, and as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

— Marianne Williamson


4. Give Up Your Excuses

“It’s not about the cards you’re dealt, but how you play the hand.”

― Randy Pausch


5. Give Up The Fixed Mindset

“The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.” ― Robert Greene


6. Give Up Believing In The “Magic Bullet.”

“Every day, in every way, I’m getting better and better” — Émile Coué


7. Give Up Your Perfectionism

“Shipping beats perfection.” — Khan Academy’s


8. Give Up Multi-tasking

“Most of the time multitasking is an illusion. You think you are multitasking, but in reality, you are actually wasting time switching from one task to another “— Bosco Tjan


9. Give Up Your Need to Control Everything

“Some things are up to us, and some things are not up to us.” — Epictetus


10. Give Up On Saying YES To Things That Don’t Support Your Goals

“He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who  attain highly must sacrifice greatly.”

— James Allen


11. Give Up The Toxic People

“Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.”

— Albert Einstein


12. Give Up Your Need To Be Liked

“You can be the juiciest, ripest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be people who hate peaches.” — Dita Von Teese


13. Give Up Wasting Time

“The trouble is, you think you have time” — Jack Kornfield


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