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The women of Teen Wolf are smart, fierce, and overall impressive. Let’s take a look at the rules of success we can learn from them.
The following list mainly focuses on Lydia Martin and includes Allison Argent, Melissa McCall, and Kira Yukimura at some points.
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1. Use your assets to your advantage
Lydia is hot, and she knows it. She’s also very willing to use that to her advantage whenever she can.
Allison is talented at archery from a young age. In the early series, we finally saw her taking advantage of that skill she had previously deemed just a hobby.
Same thing with Kira and her sword-fighting skills.
Most of the time, we’re so focused on all the traits and things that we don’t have that we entirely disregard all the skills and attributes we already own.
Look at what you already have. It can be anything from good looks and style to charismatic charm or extensive knowledge in skincare.
Literally, ANYTHING could aid you on your journey of success.
Many people end up turning a passion they’ve had since childhood or their teens into a ragingly successful business or career.
Now it’s your turn. What are your assets, and how can you use them for success? There is always a way!
2. Don’t hide the difficulties you’ve overcome – be proud of them and let them make you stronger!
“Someone Tried To Strangle Me And I Survived; I Don’t Need To Hide That.”
– Lydia Martin
The adversities you’ve overcome and the problems you’ve solved have become some of your biggest strengths.
Countless people have created a whole business around the lessons they learned while working through a problem. Now, they make money, helping others overcome this issue quicker, and less painful than they had to.
Lydia, Allison, Malia, and Kira have all faced challenges and adversities of some kind that could have broken them. But they not only overcame them but learned how to thrive through them.
Start looking at every challenge in your life as free training from the Universe to prepare you for your future life.
How has the pandemic trained you? What did you learn from losing your job or from not getting into the college of your dreams?
What did you learn from that painfully failed relationship? In which ways are you better than your past self through failing that exam?
Stop looking at your failures with shame. Be proud of overcoming that experience and using what it taught you to create a more successful life.
3. Only by taking risks can you save others
“I Don’t Want To Be Safe; I Want To Save Stiles.”
– Lydia Martin
If you want to be a leader with raging success who changes people’s lives, you have to be willing to take risks.
You will never be able to make a significant impact in the world if you timidly sit on the safe sideline.
I’m not saying go out there and spend all your savings on one far-fetched business opportunity.
Our Teen Wolf women also didn’t throw themselves unnecessarily and without any kind of plan into danger.
What they did do is not cower away when danger approached. Instead, they prepared themselves, and when the time came, they strategically and instinctively went into the battle.
That’s what you need to do. Stop avoiding any kind of risk for fear of failure.
Sometimes, the risk of failure is well worth the potential reward.
4. Work in silence and stun them with your results
Unless they get to know Lydia more, most people perceive her as a very superficially pretty, and popular girl.
She downplays her intellect by making dumb comments – which is entirely unnecessary, though.
However, it does create a striking contrast to her silent achievements.
She has an immensely high IQ, and her EQ is also far from bad.
Without people noticing it, she regularly scores the best grades while at the same time battling the supernatural and figuring out her powers, all without much help.
The point is, your results matter, regardless of whether other people recognize them as such.
Work in silence towards your goals relentlessly. It’s much easier to do so if you don’t have to fight against a stream of unwanted attention by small-minded people.
5. Know how to take care of yourself; don’t rely on others to save you
Lydia learns self-defense when she’s sick of playing the role of damsel in distress.
She wants to protect herself. She wants to do the saving for once instead of being saved by others.
Allison picks up archery again when she gets sick of feeling so damn scared and helpless.
She knows she is not made for being helpless, and she takes matters into her own hand to fulfill her potential.
Knowing how to take care of yourself doesn’t mean you should be one of those men-bashing women who are all about ‘who needs men, I’m a strong independent woman!‘
No, be grateful if people offer you help and accept it if there is no good reason other than your ego to say no.
We all love helping someone out. And especially men love helping women out since most men’s primary energy is masculine, which is very giving by nature.
Most women’s primary energy is feminine, which makes them cherish receiving. We can see that being reflected in endless fictional stories, where women find their prince charming, who opens the door for them, or gives her his jacket.
The important thing is, you can receive very well without needing to rely on it. Obviously, you can open a door for yourself, but it’s a sweet gesture if someone cares enough to do it for you. So why not cherish that?
So learn to take care of yourself as Lydia and Allison did.
Practice self-defense.
Learn different languages.
Get a degree.
Know how to change a tire.
Know how to drive a car.
Be informed about your finances.
Have all the skills necessary to take care of yourself. But if somebody offers to help you, don’t turn them down simply to prove yourself.
You don’t need to prove your strength to anyone. You simply need to be strong when it counts.
6. Always improve yourself
It takes Lydia quite a long time to get a grip on her banshee powers.
Unsurprisingly so, as she’s the only Banshee around. There is no alpha there to teach her.
For a long time, her powers scared and confused her. But as she started to get a real handle of them, boy did she become powerful!
Kira also struggled to get the hang of her Kitsune powers. With a lot of practice and determination, she eventually manages to get the hang of them.
As mentioned before, you should use your already existing assets to your advantage.
In addition to that, you should definitely also develop your strengths further and make the most out of them.
So, you are a natural speaker. How can you be even more charismatic in front of an audience?
If you’re great at socializing, how can you improve that skill to reap even more rewards from it? Perhaps learning how to remember names with ease would help you.
Appreciating and using your strengths is a crucial step to make. But truly successful people never just settle for being right. They want to be great, to be outstanding and exceptional!
So improve yourself with unrivaled determination. There is much more potential in you than you expect.
7. Make badass and out of the box friends
As Teen Wolf progresses, Lydia grows stronger bonds with Scott, Stiles, Allison, Malia, Kira, and others.
Together their circle of friends becomes smarter and stronger. They bring out the best in each other, and they help the other whenever they are struggling.
Also, they are very different people with very different skill sets. This is a considerable advantage since when they come together, it makes them unstoppable.
Work on having friends as Lydia Martin does.
I know it’s not as easy as going out and buying yourself a pair of shoes (which, to be honest, is not that easy with my small shoe size, either, but you get the point).
Sometimes, all you can do is improve yourself and have faith that you will find your tribe.
But to do that, you have to be open about the different personalities that they might have.
Sure, you probably want to stick to some rigid core criteria, like no criminals or junkies or whatnot.
But don’t dismiss the dorky or nerdy or jock type just because you’ve never even considered having friends like that.
Sometimes, the best kind of friends are strikingly different from us in some ways.
Just like Lydia and Stiles or Malia. Yet, they work out, don’t they?
8. You have the power to create your own life, so use it!
“There’s No Such Thing As Fate.”
– Allison Argent
All of the Teen Wolf pack are incredible at taking life into their own hands instead of leaving things up for fate to decide.
And let’s be honest, they could have so very quickly decided that fate condemned them for how many times the world caught fire with them in the middle of the inferno.
You have the same power to create your own life, so use it!
9. Always fight for what’s important to you
Allison, for example, wouldn’t stand for the way her family treated supernatural beings. She knew better, and she fiercely stood for it.
You will always have more endurance to fight for the things that are important to you, something you are passionate about.
Instead of being miserable and doing a half-ass job with things others tell you are essential, stand up for your values and passions.
Swim against the current and lead the life you deserve instead of the life others have planned for you!
10. Be your own support system; be your own cheerleader
“Be Your Own Anchor.”
– Melissa McCall
I believe we can all agree that Melissa McCall is one of our fiercely brave women of Teen Wolf. So let’s include her in this.
In the beginning, Scott had used Allison as his anchor to ground himself in his humanity and not lose himself to his supernatural side.
After they broke up, he struggled and got some advice from his mother.
I like to interpret this advice as we need to be there for ourselves and can’t solely rely on others.
We are social beings that crave to be accepted and supported by others. However, relying solely on this support can be detrimental to our success.
In times of change, when you are about to take the risk to start building a business, for example, chances are you will not have an anchor in your inner circle.
If you are the first of your pack to ever do something like this, there might not be many cheerleaders edging you on.
If you are solely anchored in their approval and their support, then you will never take the steps necessary to create a bigger life than they can ever imagine.
You need to anchor yourself within you first and foremost. Be your own cheerleader and your own support system.
Know yourself enough to pull yourself out of the dark and motivate yourself to keep working towards your goal.
If you find additional support from elsewhere: Awesome!
But you should never rely on it. Be your own anchor first and foremost.
11. If you’re going through hell, keep going
Yes, this is basically one of those cringy bumper stickers, but I’d like to look at it from a slightly lighter perspective.
While we know to keep persevering through hard times because there is light at the end of the tunnel, most people don’t apply the same principle to less dire situations.
What about that hobby you are trying to get the hang of but always fail at.
What about your math grades that seemingly never improve no matter how much effort you put in.
And what about that bad habit you’re trying to quit but always fall back into.
If we all know to keep going through hell, why do so few of us keep going through slightly challenging and far from hellish situations?
Why do we need our world to go up in flames before developing discipline, determination, and resilience?
Don’t be one of those people who need the worst to happen for them to finally learn the lesson.
Learn it now!
Learn to keep going when things get challenging. You wanted to have a successful business after three months, and two years later, you still haven’t earned $100? So, what? Do you still want that business? Well, then keep going until you have it!
I know you have it in you to achieve great things. The only thing you need is for someone to finally say the right something in the right moment and flip that switch inside you that activates your truly unstoppable self.
I hope this might have flipped that switch or at least loosened it for easier flipping later on. ;D
Well, that’s it for this list. What was your favorite rule of success? Can you think of any additional ones?
Also, who is your favorite boss babe from Teen Wolf?
Until next time,
Sophie
