Are you living your best life yet? Do you feel like something is missing? You are all determined but do not see any progress towards change, which would in turn help us live the life you always wanted? These are questions we all have, and most people want what is best for them and those around them. They set for action but achieves no expected results. What could be causing this? Why do we sometimes not progress towards our aspirations, goals, and dreams? What could be holding us back?

The only answer to all these questions is just one. Ever had the say, “Ignorance is bliss.” Is Ignorance really a bliss? This proverb means, if one is unaware of an unpleasant fact or situation one cannot be troubled by it. Is this true? What if that very unpleasant fact is how our lives are? Are we to just ignore any unpleasantness just because we do not want to be unbothered? Some people are where they do not want to be simply because they chose not to be bothered about what is happening around them. This mindset has really had many people regretting ever choosing to ignore what is going on around them, issues that affect them financially, psychologically, emotionally, physically, spiritually, and otherwise. This approach to life has indeed left many wondering why things are not changing for better, looking back in time, why are they still where they are today. What are they not doing well? They are honest, loyal, respectful, and play by the rules, but why haven’t life rewarded them for such diligence in doing good and being the force of good and truly conforming to the system, bending to its will, and contributing in all they can? What we need to understand is that sometimes to really breakthrough in life, we must stop playing by the rules set by default for us and make our own rules. If we play by someone’s rules, we can only succeed in making them more progressive than ourselves, and less for us.

The first thing we need to understand is the system is rigged, and it is in knowing this simple rule about this system are we to break free from its will and truly make a success of our lives. However, before we could do this, we must first admit change and admitting to change implies admitting the real reason why we are where we are today is because of ignorance. We have reduced ourselves to just doing life and bending to this corrupt system’s will that we just take whatever comes our way, and just be fine with it, simply because we could not be bothered enough.

However, what could have caused us to be ignorant? Perhaps we close our ears to wise people’s sayings, we do not read and acquire new information, thus new way of thinking. We spend most of our time pleasing others and playing it safe. We play it safe because we deem that as secure, stress free and mostly, peaceful. However, who knows what can we learn if we can only admit to not knowing stuff and how this system works? We will truly learn a lot.

To truly change for the better, we must first admit that the real reason we are where we are today is because we do not know how to be better. And it is acknowledging that our lack of information has led us to where we are today, that we can truly start making progress towards definite change that will be sure to bring us success and happiness. At the start of the year, many people set goals and things they hope to achieve by the end of the new year. However, most just write things down and expect things will magically happen for them, but that is truly being deluded. For us to see results, we need to first act. However, this is also not an automatic way to achieve goals, we must take decisive actions towards our goals. Now, we must also grow towards definite change by reflecting on results. If we can see that we did action A in hopes of achieving results A, yet we failed to, we must first admit that action A did not work, however in doing so yet still executing action A for results A, we will be truly foolish. This means we need to change our action to B, and maybe we do not know how to do action B, we must also admit that. Now, how do we then effectively execute action B, we must learn, we must perhaps expose ourselves to a new way of thinking and become an effective student. We cannot expect to achieve different results by investing same efforts. We must remember that we reap what we sow. We cannot plant an orange tree and expect to sow apples. This is illogical.

In the similar way, we must avoid being ignorant of the things we do not know and fully find out the things we do not know. In so doing, we will truly progress towards positive change. We can look at this practically, if one sets to eat healthily, the first thing they must do is, admit they do not know how to eat healthily. Now that they have acknowledged their limitation, that is, what has been hindering them from eating healthy, they must set out to find out how to eat healthy. They can do this by reading books on nutrition and healthy lifestyle. If one sets to be an effective speaker, they must first admit they are not good enough, and thus need to improve. Only then can they find out how to be an effective speaker, because admitting to their limitation would have increased their reason and purpose for being better at speaking.

Ignorance clouds judgement, and by not knowing how things are and work, how will we really progress in life? All successful people always want to learn, know how things work. They are very curious, and this impels them to not be ignorant and admit when they do not know anything. This should be how we approach life. In doing this, we position ourselves for definite change, and with definite positive change, comes results.