5 Life lessons I learned from Steve Jobs

Implement these habits if you want to…

The first time that I saw Steve Jobs in an interview I felt amazed for the way that he shares his vision with everyone who was talking of.

The doers are the major thinkers. The people that really create the things that change this industry are both. The thinker and doer in one person — Steve Jobs

You might have heard before some quotes from him and recognize that he has something that makes him unique in the way that he processes things.

But not his entire life was beautiful, just looking at his early ages he dropped out of college and tried different psychedelics drugs, in fact, was experimenting with different challenges before he found Apple.

And still, all these difficulties he could manage to be someone who we remember such as an entrepreneur, visionary, and genius.

We are taking enough risks in our life?

We are living in a century where the people are like dead zombies, doing what is supposed to do each day. Going to college to learn specific topics of one career and work in a specific area to earn money and having enough to live a “great life”.

But that’s not how Steve Jobs was thinking at his early ages.

1. Take action now

I always advise people — Don’t wait! Do something when you are young, when you have nothing to lose, and keep that in mind.- Steve Jobs

The first and most valuable lesson that I learned from Steve Jobs is to take action.

Our world is changing every day and new challenges are coming up and every person is taking the risk to fulfill their dreams. However, the majority is just doing what other people tell to do and what things “work” instead of being disruptive and trying new things and giving their best to make it real.

How I make it happen?

• Deciding to take action
• Implementing the decision that I’ve made in detailed steps

So starting things and taking action on projects that I was having fear of was an epiphany and something that I feel grateful to do it.

2. Be Resilient

Let’s go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday. Steve Jobs

In everything that is new, it could happen two things: it works or doesn’t

The way someone views adversity and stress and how they face it differentiate resilient people from others.

When I was young I didn’t know about resilience and I suddenly give up after some attempts of doing something that I thought would work. But I was wrong because sometimes it requires more than a few attempts to make something happen.

I would have liked to know this before:

Every failure is just another step closer to a win

In just statistics, when you try and try and try harder than ever before you are more close to win and succeed.

It’s an inevitable part of our lives to have some mistakes in the path. But we don’t know that every mistake give us experience and make us more strong

I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. It is so hard. You put so much of your life into this thing. There are such rough moments in time that I think most people give up. I don’t blame them. It’s really tough and it consumes your life. — Steve Jobs

Resilient people have a positive image of the future and a huge desire to achieve everything that they propose despite failure.

• Don’t let setbacks or bad situation affects your entire life, take it as a situation to learn and absorb experience for every failure.

3. Be passionate about what you do

(…)So it’s a lot of hard work and it’s a lot of worrying constantly and if you don’t love it, you’re going to fail. So you’ve got to love it and you’ve got to have passion and I think that’s the high-order bit. – Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs is the live proof that when you give all you passion to what you do, impossible things could happen, and when you try so hard in something that you believe you can make it come true in order to create a high product or service that can change how we see the industry today.

How to be passionate about what I do?

Is common to feel stressed and tired when we are committed to a project and it includes different tasks that maybe some processes where we don’t feel so motivated.

We need to have in mind the reason why we are doing what we are doing.

Ask yourself why you do that and why it's so important to you, you need to have a good direction and good management of your motivation, having a holistic view to control your life.

4. Follow your heart and don’t lose faith

“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” Steve Jobs

When we start something new and don’t know where we will go in the future with this “idea” is common to have a lot of concerns and failures in the way, is part of learning and knowing what works.

• You need to be disruptive, change your strategy fast, learn fast, and fail fast.

Focus on the things that work, have a good intuition, have your purpose in mind in every moment to face all the difficulties.

“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”- Steve Jobs

To find that successful path and be the first to walk in, you need to fail a lot and try a lot of things before. With every failure, you are always more close to your dream.

5. Your life is going to end

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Steve Jobs

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.

Live your life to its maximum and don’t regret not doing what you’ll prefer to do. We only live once so is important to have that in mind.

If today were the last days of your life, will you do what you are going to do today?