Learn A Dozen Ways
To Avoid A Life Crisis

There are two ways of managing a life crisis: the way most people manage it and the way smart people manage it. While almost everyone claims to manage by rationality, most manage by learned helplessness and random action. Only the smart people are completely committed to escalating efficiency. They’re goal-oriented and solution-focused.

However, an even better way is to be goal-oriented and solution-focused in the first place--and completely avoid a crisis. Prevention is easier to manage than crisis management.

Most people pretend to be heading somewhere in life but few have a real sense of direction. What they don't realize is that by failing to set goals, they're also failing to anticipate a future life crisis and prevent it. It’s only the most successful people that are completely committed to being goal-oriented and solution-focused.

A goal is only a goal if it’s treated in a formal way. This means that it’s written down and plans are set. Most people only have a vague sense of what they want from their lives. They’re casual about their goals, careless about their plans, and confused about the thrust and meaning of their lives. This common way of living creates a cycle of one life crisis after another. So, if you’re earnest about achieving success in your life and fed up with dealing with one life crisis after another and willing to commit to greater order, efficiency, and enhanced living, how do you become a high achiever?

Strategies To Prevent A Life Crisis

1. Take breaks from the day to day details, relax, rejuvenate, and envision the life you really want to live. When you step aside, you can look inside. Allow yourself to dream about bigger, better, and more bountiful things.

2. Make a plan on how to live this type of life, and use a calendar to begin to mark your steps. A business will not get funded unless it can offer a coherent business plan. How are you investing your precious life-force? Are you wise in your passions? Are you patient in your perspective? Are you persistent in your actions? Do you have a plan for your life that offers a reasonable chance of succeeding in what you love to do?

3. Affirm your clear goals regularly. Your conscious mind is only the tip of your mental iceberg. Your real power comes from how you influence your subconscious mind. This, in turn, communicates your aims and intentions to infinite intelligence. The law of attraction is always at work. The question is whether or not you’re working it intentionally or accidentally.

4. Live and move and have your being in partnership with all. You’re always in relationship with others. With a little patience and a little perseverance it’s possible to improve all your relationships with others. Harmony creates different results than conflict. We’re all intrinsically different from each other, yet it’s in finding the common threads of our humanity that we can create mutually beneficial outcomes.

5. Look at what’s working rather than regretting what failed or what has not happened yet. We’re always in flux, always between what has been and what will be. We’re never at rest, never in equilibrium, because the nature of life itself is dynamic. Staying stuck in what did not happen robs you of the power to change what can happen. The glass is not only half-full and half-empty but the levels are constantly rising and falling as well. Since we have a bias toward things being better, we should lean toward that perspective.

6. Keep seeing, feeling, and acting out your picture of success. Ultimately, you and you alone, are the final authority on how things work out for you. It may appear that other people and circumstances control you but this is just the residual effect of your previous intentions. Choose to be at cause by choosing to perpetuate mental images of your ideal scene. Time will then testify to the value of your inner certainty.

7. Be transparent, avoid white lies, and stir clear of exaggerated stories. Elaborate verbal schemes to keep you safe from attacks by others only have short term value. It’s much easier to live a simple, open, and honest life. Things work out better for you when people feel safe in trusting you.

8. Always think big. The size of our world, the scale of our opportunities, the magnificence of our lives really depends on how much courage we have to dream. Realism is a false indicator of how to predict futures. Modesty is a self-defeating value. Staying small and humble serves no-one. You deny yourself and others the joy of grandeur. Splendid visions beget splendid realities.

9. Settle arguments and move beyond them to cooperation and companionship. It’s not always possible to get alone with everyone all the time. But its detrimental to our well-being to perpetually live in a state of conflict. Make your peace with yourself and with others and move on to live the life you deserve.

10. Balance and enhance your three sources of power: time, money, and physical energy. Understand how you use time and learn how to master your time. Understand how you use money and learn how to master your money. Understand how you use physical energy and learn how to master your physical energy.

11. Take a good look at the beliefs that might be holding you back. When we get a better idea of how we get seduced by the wrong choices and stay in the loop of dysfunctional thoughts, feelings, and actions, we become sufficiently aware to make positive changes.

12. Be a reflective person. Keep a journal. Observe. Learn. Heal. Adapt.Life does get better when you’re in charge of it. When you’re in the flow of updating your views by understanding your experiences, you can gain control of where you’re going and how to do what you intend.

Most people only evolve when they have a life crisis. Yet personal growth can be chosen rather than forced upon you. A life riddled with angst, beset by confusion, and committed to perpetuating mayhem relationship isn’t necessary.

You can live in a sane and balanced way.

You can live in an easy and relaxed way.

You can live in certainty that all your needs are met all the time.

You’ll receive what you give and you’ll find what you seek when you trust the process of life.

If things aren’t working out for you, it’s time to make a conscious decision to change your beliefs, affirm your goals, groove with your best feelings and pursue your highest ideals.

A human life is a fragile thing. While it’s easy to make the wrong decisions and be caught in the chaos of it, it’s also easy to be patient, observant, and wise in the way you choose to live your life. Instead of orienting your growth around a life crisis, it’s much more fun to orient it around setting goals and pursuing plans that fulfill you.

Return from Life Crisis to Achieving Success