Ch. 01: Achieve Success in Your Life Using These 3 Principles We tend to make living a successfullife more complicated than it needs to be. It's human nature to want to overcomplicate even the simplest concepts because we can't seem to get how something could be that simple. We often maintain thio ideal to stop ourselves from being successful. Sure, life is difficult and it can be hard. but that's how it was designed to be. Achieving success isn't as difficult as you might think, just use these 3 principles Begin with what you can control. If you are like most people, you spend too much time worrying abojt things that are outside of your control. These things cause you stress because you spend your day foc'f ng on how terrible your situation is rather than how you can change your situat'on. For example, you can't control that you didn't exercise in the past. There is no value in wasting energy focusing on the past. Instead, learn from your mis'akes and make changes. What you can control is how you react ...L-An ,.ncc! curveballs are thrown at you.