Everyone wants to succeed in life and not everyone knows what it takes to achieve it. Success doesn't come overnight. It takes lot of small steps before reaching the goal. Some of the best and hardest lessons are learnt in hardest situations. Life teaches you all the lessons in the hardest way possible. Certain life lessons learned early can result in great character. 

1. Time is the most precious thing

Nothing in life is more precious than time. You give more importance to bank accounts and often forget to give same importance to time and end up wasting valuable resource. In fact, time is much more valuable than money because you can use your time to make money, but you can’t use money to purchase more time. There is an oft-quoted saying that "time is money." You can interpret this to mean that time is a valuable currency. The worst choice in life is to waste these hours by letting them slip away.

2. Learn to say no

Yes this looks easy but most of the people find it difficult to say No. This is because they lack courage or they feel ashamed for saying it. People often think if they say No, they may be considered as bad person. But the truth is if you know when to say No without any hesitation then life becomes much easier.

Learn to say No when you are offered less than what you deserve. Learn to say No for living your life based on others opinions.

3. Be open to opportunities

Life can be tricky sometimes. Life throws you good opportunities and if you miss it or neglect it, you may never get another. When life offers it, accept and appreciate it. Be open to travel extra mile for that beautiful destination. As the saying goes "Life begins at the end of your comfort zone", always accept the opportunities even though it feels hard.

4. Enjoy more while living busy life

Life can get busy and you often forget to live more. You may question why do we have to live more. But remember what you want to recall and cherish when you are in death bed. Is it busy office work life or beautiful things that happened in life ? Definitely you want to recall all the beautiful moments that you had with family or friends. So make a habit to enjoy more while living busy life.

Nobody is fond of failures but it is necessary to know that Failure is good. Failure is the stepping stone for success. Failure shows where you lack and if you observe that properly and improve yourself, eventually you will end up seeing the face of success. Next time when you fail, remember to see lessons in that.

If you ever feel like doing something and you start thinking you don't belong to that age anymore, remember that age is just a number. Age factor should not come in between you and what you love to do. You don't have to be 10 again to play with kids or you don't have to be 40 to be responsible. Age is just a number.

7. Travel More

8. Make yourself a priority

It's good to make others happy and put them in the priority list but guess who should come first in the priority list, it's You. Always make yourself a priority. Pleasing others for approval and acceptance might feel good in the short term, but eventually, you will lose yourself and feel resentful. Take decisions which makes you feel good because in the end all you have is You.

9. Perfection is Boring

Everyone tries to be perfect but the truth is, it is not possible. Nobody is perfect and even you cannot be perfect either. Whenever you see a happy person and think he is perfect or his situations are just perfect then you are wrong. It's up to you how you react to your situations. Perfection is unattainable, and the pursuit of it makes life boring. Its your imperfections that make you real.

10. Smile more while you can

Bitter truth is life ends without any warnings. You never know when is your last day. Smile more and live more while you can because you may not have another day to feel it. Make a habit to smile more and thank life for giving you one more beautiful day.