Choices inspired by self love bring meaningful success & life satisfaction. This video will show you 3 ways how to practice self-love while aiming high with real-life examples from billionaire philanthropist Warren Buffett’s life.
A. Find your passion and make it your job
You might have heard this before – if you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life.
According to the New York bestseller book “The Warren Buffett Way”, he believes that everyone’s wired in a particular way. And to have meaningful success in life, it’s important to understand and appreciate our unique qualities, and focus on those opportunities that make the best use of them.
And so he chose to follow what he was good at… numbers and became what experts call one of those rare phenomenon of investing success.
We are more comfortable doing things that we like to do, things that fire us up.
So self-love -the compassion to make things easy and enjoyable for yourself and focusing on the opportunities that make the best use of your unique qualities, makes the whole journey to success feel faster.
B. Focusing more on the lesson learnt is important for self-love
Self love is important for success because it empowers us to be the kind of person who refuses to give up.
Show yourself compassion and instead of feeling bad or beating yourself up over a mistake, accept that setbacks are a part of the process, they don’t mark the end of the road.
And instead of focusing on how it feels and how things could have been different, focus on what was missing, what fell short, & what could be done differently so that you have a better chance of succeeding next time.
Warren Buffet’s first investment at the age of 11 wasn’t profitable, but he learnt the importance of patience from this experience – a lesson which eventually became one of the cornerstones of his success.
Misfortunes don’t make an experience a complete failure if you learn something from it. Focus on the big picture and learn from your mistakes.
C. Emotional resilience
Self love is also about letting yourself experience the whole range of human emotions, but knowing when to stop and how to move on, essentially becoming more emotionally resilient. Let your head have a say even when it’s a question of the heart, it will help you develop a more rational outlook and patience…an invaluable life skill that builds confidence.
Warren Buffett pledged away the majority of his wealth, over 30 billion dollars to a philanthropic organization. Even though he could have given such a big donation to his own, Buffett Foundation, started by his wife, he gave it away to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, because he believes they are better equipped and already scaled to handle the billions of dollars.
Even when it’s a question of the heart, a rational outlook has more power to do good.
“Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods.”
– Robert Schuller
To be truly there for others and to give your best at work, it’s important to be in a healthy emotional space.
There are no shortcuts to real success – it takes time, perseverance, and patience.
