The lines are drawn

With each day you live, the statuses of your fortunes fluctuate up and down. The areas in which this happens are varied; with health, finance, well-being, happiness, productivity, social life, career and knowledge being just a few examples. As though your life is a line graph, imagine these values being plotted constantly; the lines are drawn all the time.

You have to learn to read between the lines to avoid being shaken by the ups and downs of life and to keep things from getting out of hand. People who learn to understand their life’s varying fortunes and use them to their advantage will stand out as being resilient and they will weather life’s storms.

Thankfully, you don’t need to be a data analyst to study and understand your life’s vicissitudes. You just need to apply the right efforts in the right direction and everything else will fall into place. In whatever area of life you are interested in, study how the line is drawn and in which direction its graph is heading. Do you like the direction? Can you see any patterns over time? This imaginary line graph of your life’s vicissitudes gives you a chance to see what is going on, when it all started and how you can change things. This knowledge becomes power when you use it to make decisions that change your circumstances and mindset, to improve yourself.

Other lines are drawn too throughout a person’s life stages. Misfortune in your life draws the line between those who care and those who just pretend to, and you will not need anyone to tell you which side they are on. It also draws the line between cowardice and courageous resilience; when you refuse to give in to hardship, instead of taking the easy way out of accepting life’s pressures without resistance.

Success draws the line between genuine friends and family, and people who are not comfortable with your good fortune. It also draws the line between the wise and the imprudent, when you choose to continue working on maintaining your success and improving your life, instead of losing yourself to fortune and acting recklessly.