Your figure = Your success

BirdieChao
Aug 27, 2017
5 min read

This is Birdie's 23rd personal article

In this generation of ours, looks seem to become the number one thing when we are doing anything. If we look around, no matter if it’s in drama series or is it in real life, those who achieve great successes normal also maintain a good figure.

So today, let me analyze with you how you estimate your success with just by how your figure is like.

-The Bird that decides to split his abs up again

First, let me clear the doubts of yours. Figure in my article today does not refer to the Instagram celebrities with extremely good body proportions or assets. Having a good figure is defined as having a body that’s in a genuinely good shape that looks fit and energetic.

Okay, let’s get into the real shit now.

Before I start explaining anything. Let’s see what will we do if we are in the situation. You are the interviewer for one very important job for your company and after rounds and rounds of filtering, you are left with 2 candidates.

Both have the exact same experiences, academics achievement and communication skills.

The only difference is candidate A has a well-maintained figure while candidate B is just chubby and bubbly.

Who will you choose? Share with me in the comment section below why you choose candidate A or candidate B.

There’s no right answer on who to choose, there will never be a correct or wrong answer to this situation. But there will always be a more popular choice and that’s exactly what we are looking at today.

People always say we need to grasp the opportunities that we came across so we can be one step closer to our definition of “success”. But what if you can’t have the opportunities put in front of you?

I recently read one article that talks about a lady’s corporate climbing experience. When she first joins the company, she thought will the ability that she has, she can easily excel in the company to get promoted soon.

Which is true, she has very good academic achievements and did a lot of small projects here and there to prove her ability. That’s also the reason that she was hired. But, even though with strong abilities, she isn’t excelling in the company as the way she wants.

So, one day she went back and reflect on those who always get appointed to do the important projects or those who are already at the high management level. Other than their personal abilities, she realize that they also have a relatively good figure and know how to groom themselves.

So she starts learning how to buy better clothes and groom herself during work. But, there are some clothes that no matter how she tries, she can never give off the same vibe as those who are at the management level.

Till once, she got an opportunity to go on a business trip with one of the female executive of her company. So she told the executive of her thoughts and all the executive did was give it a laugh and said, “To judge a woman, all you have to do is to look at her figure.” (This is my personal translation and might not be accurate. The original sentence is “一个女人状态好不好，看她身材就知道了”)

After this, she realize that no matter how good the clothes are, if you don’t have a good figure to rock it, it’s still useless. After that, of course she starts to take care of her figure as well. That’s the time when she on hack for her life.

No matter is it in the corporate world or is it just in your everyday life. The first impression is the most important thing whenever you meet someone new. And the thing to give off your first impression is nothing else but your physical appearance. Nobody will think you have an awesome personality if you don’t even put in the effort to groom yourself.

Especially if you think you are looking at is about money or personal benefits. People will be even more particular about how you present yourself to them. The first impression is the very first step to help yourself gain the trust from every other person.

This is because this in era, one person’s figure will directly reflect how that person is like in their personal life. Those who have higher status, normally also have a very good figure because they are very self-discipline to take care of their body as well. So, by maintaining a good figure is also a sign to show you are very self-disciplined.

There’s someone that said this quote, I can’t remember who but I know I hear it before. “Poor people’s strength in self-discipline is no doubt weaker than the rich, and the first thing they give up is the way they look.” I think that the rich and poor people that he referred to are not the financial status, but the mindset we have.

Although it’s quite straightforward and mean to say it out so frankly, but it’s obvious to see it around us. Since the majority of us have the “poor mindset”.

All of us have this kind of feeling before, we see all the other good looking people in social media and it gave us the immediate motivation to start exercising and achieve the same results as well. Within that few minutes, we think that we confirm plus chop can resist the temptations of ice-cream and start using money is a more productive way.

Even till the extent that you already design how your next 3 months of life will be like. But in reality, you still eat what you normally eat, you still laze around like how you normally laze and nothing change at all. When people ask you why you still eat so much? You tell them you need to eat to gain the energy to start exercising.

Now you see why a good figure meant so much?

By keeping a constant effort in maintaining a good figure for your own body is a perfect indication of you being discipline to your own life goals.

Before you know, your bad figure will betray you, especially during the times when you are giving off your first impression. It affects every bit of your life. However, just by having a good figure, you will see a huge difference in your life.

Not only by giving off the first impression. You can have a lot of other perks like appearing more confident, rocking every piece of cloth on you even if it’s just a t-shirt and you love to see yourself more in the mirror. (Something that I love to do as well!!)

All of us have wonderful dreams for the future, but at the same time we are also the kind that dreams more than doing. All of us are just normal human beings, only if we are brave enough change ourselves, train our self-disciplinary skills then we stand a chance to stand out from the rest and make your dream come true.

Don’t let your figure become a minus, make it a plus and live it to your fullest.

Last quote, “If you can’t even control your weight, how you want to control your life?”

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-BirdieChao