1. Embracing Your Uniqueness Wholly
If you want to live successful life, you should accept who you truly are and embrace your uniqueness wholly. If you always follow crowds and trudge on the same road that everyone else is trekking, you will reach the same dead end: You will destine to be a mediocrity. This is because you blindly refuse to walk on your unique road and forever imitate what everyone else is doing. As long as you pretend to be like everyone else, you will have the same result and live the same humdrum life as most people. You must unlock the courage to be different so that you can bring your uniqueness to light. In doing so, you can create your original work that will lead you to a successful life.
I have always wondered why most people nowadays are endlessly thinking what other people think of them, instead of thinking what they think of themselves. I have always wondered why most people are constantly afraid of being different. I have always wondered why most people everlastingly want to be the same as everyone else. I always wondered why people are afraid of being true themselves all the time. If you always try to be like everyone else and are afraid of bringing your true color to light, you will be unhappy for the rest of your life and your life will be unsatisfied because this is absolutely against the human nature.
We were born to be different, unique, and original. Every single person has his or her unique gift to shine themselves. If you continue letting other people coerce you to become the same as everyone else, your life will be unsatisfied with a huge regret. Trying to be the same as everyone else so that you can fit in a society is a distortion of human nature, which goes against God’s laws, for in all the world’s woods and forests – He did not create a single leaf the same as another. As a result, if you want to live a meaningful life, stop pretending to be like everyone else and stop thinking what other people think of you when you decide to embrace your uniqueness ultimately. You have a right to live a successful life and obligation to shower your uniqueness on the world. From now on, you do only one thing: bring your true color to light every single day – that will lead you to a successful life.
2. Choose Your Own Unique Life
Exercising your own freedom to choose which roads you are willingly to work is the key to lead you to a successful life. Life is only one-time offer voyage; therefore, you had better exercise your freedom to do what you are passionate about every single day, show your true color to the world with confidence, and walk on your own unique road for the rest of your life relentlessly. This is because if you are doing what you detest daily and trudge on the same road that everyone else chooses to walk, your torch of enthusiasm for life is fading gradually and you will fall in the trap of depression eventually. And the worst part is that you will be exactly like everyone else and live the same kind of colorless life for the rest of your life. What a nightmare! In order to avoid being in this unpleasant situation, you had better ask yourself, “Do I want to be exactly like everyone else to live a monotonous life? Do I want to repeat living the same humdrum life for 80 years? Or do I want to march on my unique destiny to see my true potential?” I believe that in the deepest heart, you have already known of the answer.
As a matter of fact, I wrote the duology (Liberation: Seeking the Meaning of life and Mexican Rhapsody: Having a Second Chance), which depicts how I have decided to stop trudging on a road that everyone else is walking; how I have chosen to march on my unique destiny triumphantly; and how walking on my unique destiny eventually led me to a successful life: living the artist’s life.
In short, you have your own freedom to choose which roads you are willingly to walk on. And I bet that you want to walk on your own unique path to lead an unregretful life. Ergo, you had better exercise your freedom to choose to follow your unique destiny to make your unique history and enjoy showering your true color on the world. Then, you will see how just embracing your uniqueness ultimately can magically lead you to a successful life.
3. Only Think about What You Think of Yourself
In order to lead a successful life, you must stop what other people think of you; you must focus on what you think of yourself. This is because if you are unhappy and feel depressed every day, you cannot live a successful life. As I mentioned before, in order to lead a successful life, you must embrace your uniqueness ultimately. When you determine to shine your uniqueness on the world, people will gossip about you. However, you don’t need to give any shit to them, for they are simply jealous of you. This is because you have the courage to be different and bring your true color to light: You look damn happy and content every day.
In addition, you don’t need to please everyone since life is extremely short journey. Hence, you don’t have any time to waste with such unimportant matter. Instead of pleasing everybody – you had better start pleasing people who are truly matter to you. You don’t need 100 fake friends; you just need five true friends. If you have five true friends who accept your uniqueness and who are there for you whether you are happy or unhappy, you will be one of the luckiest people on this green earth.
My new book, Dance to Dream: Making the Right Choice (which is scheduled to be published in the beginning of July), depicts how embracing your uniqueness ultimately can lead you to a successful and satisfied life: Interspersed with the story of Shogo’s long time Japanese friend – who left Japan to live in Guatemala after spending just 4 days in Mexico – this book shatters worldviews and encourages us to see the countless different possibilities that lie beyond our ordinary narrow confines.
You must embrace your uniqueness ultimately and shower your uniqueness on the world to live a satisfied and unregretful life. If you start living according to your heart’s prompting, no matter what other people think of you, you will feel content and alive each day. It is not important how people see you when you embrace your uniqueness ultimately and accept who you truly are; it is crucial how you see yourself and how you feel when you start bringing your true color to light every day. For that reason, you must stop letting people manipulate you to make wrong decisions – you mast start making your own decisions and choosing how you live in your precious life so that you will have no regret. This is your life, not theirs.
At any rate, you must unlock the courage to be different so that you can embrace your uniqueness ultimately – that will lead you to a successful life eventually.
