{"id":11559,"date":"2017-01-10T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T11:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/?p=11559"},"modified":"2017-10-16T19:06:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T13:36:32","slug":"how-can-you-stop-being-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/how-can-you-stop-being-average.html","title":{"rendered":"4 Surprisingly Simple Ways to Stop Being Average and Start Being Awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you consider yourself to be average, you are not alone. Many people go through these feelings at some point in life. The astonishing thing is that a significant percentage of successful people were also average at some point. But then they rose above being average by putting in the required effort and time. \u00a0They made a plan and saw it through.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/How-can-I-stop-being-average\/answer\/Nelson-Wang-2\">Nelson Wang<\/a>, a motivational writer, and a renowned Quora enthusiast gives\u00a0an interesting strategy to be beyond average:<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>1. Learn to persevere<\/b><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>Everyone sucks in the beginning. It&#8217;s what you do after the start that counts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&gt; My 2nd Quora post has 366 views. My 6th Quora post has 98,000 views. My 13th Quora post has 548,000 views.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; My first book sold less than 50 copies. My second book has over 40,000 Kindle downloads.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; I had to make 14 iPhone apps just to get to 4 that made the top 100 in different categories<\/p>\n<h3><b>2. Find five awesome people crushing it in life<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Spend time with those people. You are who you spend your time with. <strong><i>Awesomeness is contagious.<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><b>3. Find your purpose<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Imagine waking up every day excited for you&#8217;ve set out to accomplish. That passion alone will propel you to the next level.\u00a0<b>Take action now!\u00a0<\/b>Getting started is half the battle. Just focus on getting started. <i>The inertia will keep you going.<\/i><\/p>\n<h3><b>4. Understand the value of time<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Your time here is so freaking valuable. Do you really want to look back one day and ask &#8220;what if?&#8221; Better to look forward and to say &#8220;what&#8217;s possible?&#8221; Most people don&#8217;t push themselves to be better than average mainly because they never have a sense of urgency.\u00a0Understanding the value of time changes that.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><i>Life is short. Make the most out of your time here.<\/i><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Bidding adieu to an average life sure sounds exciting, but with a little\u00a0help<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0it also becomes a lot easier. <a href=\"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/talkItOut?from=showAllExperts\">Connect with our Experts<\/a> and get the right guidance, right when you need it.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you consider yourself to be average, you are not alone. Many people go through these feelings at some point in life. The astonishing thing is that a significant percentage of successful people were also average at some point. But then they rose above being average by putting in the required effort and time. \u00a0They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-confidence","category-self-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}