Reminder for an easier life in 2025
Marek Demcak
Strategy Director @YIT Slovakia | 16+ years in Corporate world | from Manufacturing to Construction | from Performance to Operational Excellence
(1) Embrace reality.
Check your “calendar “- you will be surprised by your life priorities.
If you do not embrace reality, you will miss out on how things really are — you will spend life in a delusion, wondering what is wrong.?
Embrace reality and deal with it.
If nature was perfect, it wouldn’t be evolving. So, rather than getting stuck overlooking mistakes, it makes sense to find your imperfections and deal with them.
(2) Rather ask for forgiveness than for permission.
The №1 rule of bureaucracy: it’s easier to ask and wait for permission than do any action.
You can wait until someone decides what you have to do. Or you can acknowledge you don’t know you do the action and learn from the reaction.
Even though a permit is mandatory, you can always act toward what you want to achieve because If you wait for permission, you may never start.
We learn by doing. We get older by waiting.
We can wait forever. Or… We can work.
Act, get things moving.
(3) Always expect good intentions.
If you assume your partner has good intentions in any action, you become curious and approach any situation in a positive mood.
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When you are positive, you are more open to listening. The more you listen, the less you express your opinions.
Listening to your partner is the key to a long and happy relationship.
In long-term games, good intentions always win.?Short-term games are for cheaters.
(4) Spend money to save time.
Make sure you spend as much time as possible on activities that make you happy and as little time as possible on activities that don’t.
Advertisements on TV or YouTube will not make you happy — if you use software frequently, ensure you have a paid version.
Scrolling social media packed with the marketing of Happiness-promising products and the embellished reality of “famous “people will not make you happy — spending quality time with close friends will do.
We treat time as money; we even say we spend time. But unlike money, time is finite.
(5) Have no time for toxic people.
Toxic people don’t make you feel good about others; they don’t make you feel good about yourself, either.
Get rid of people that drain you. No exceptions. Life is too short.
Cheers,
Marek ??