MyGrowthDiary

  Image via Unsplash When I was young, everyone always told me: "Stay in school, work hard, be the top student, go to university, and get a good job."  It stuck in my mind.  But when I completed my university education, I realized things were different. It was discouraging to do all these things and still end up doing odd jobs.  I realized there is more to life than what the education system teaches.  Here are six important life lessons I was never taught at school. Read Also: Why Hitting your Goals Won’t Make you Happier 1. Failure is Good In the traditional educational paradigm, failure is often viewed as something to be avoided at all costs.  We are conditioned to strive for perfection, to achieve top grades, and to excel in every endeavor.  However, this mindset fails to account for the valuable lessons that failure can teach us. In entrepreneurship, failure is not only accepted but embraced as a crucial part of the learning process.  Every setback is an opportunity to ga

  Believing you'll be happy once you hit your goals is a myth… Image via Unsplash I always said I'd be happy if I reached a certain goal I had set.  Maybe get a better job, move to a better house, or achieve some other milestone.  But with time, I realized that every time I reached that goal, I wasn't any happier.  Instead, I set yet another goal, and expectations piled up again.  And until I hit that goal, I'd just be miserable—a shell of myself.  While setting and achieving those goals improved my happiness, the happiness didn't last.  So, I realized being unhappy now and believing I will be happy once I achieve my goals is an erroneous belief.  So, why was I not happier whenever I hit my goals?  Well, keep reading to find out. 9 Reasons Why Hitting My Goals Didn’t Make me Happier In this section, i’ll take you through the reasons why hitting my goals didn’t make me more happy. Let’s get started. 1. Unrealistic Expectations I used to believe that achieving my goa