In times when you are down and seems no light will ever shine upon you... It is cool to see something like below for motivation :)
Sunday, September 19, 2010
5 things to consider for happy life
I was talking above about how to work on list of important things to make your life happier. I would like to propose 5 universal principles that make common sense and need to be considered when making this or other decision.
1) Health. Would your choice will make you more healthier or less? It is easy to understand - it does not mater how much money do you have if you are seriously ill and nearly dying. What is the point then?
2) Emotions. Lets say you are very healthy and reach, but cannot sleep at night because of fear, or stress, or constant depression
3) Relationships. Even if you have lots of money, health, and good sleep but you are alone and have no one to share your happiness with. For example you have been offered 1mil $ but with condition of spending all your life on small island with no people. How would you even know that you are happy???
4) Free time. Even if you have great job and lots of friends but have no time to spend those money. It may be not worth it...
5) Learning. Constant learning and development, improving of your skills. Is there any area of your life that you would really want to do? Something that you always wanted to do and felt like you have special skills towards?
Monday, September 13, 2010
Making choice for happy life
With all people be different in the world and with different individual priorities it is still highly important for each and every of us to be happy in life. Numerous researches were done in order to find out what to do in life and how to live it happy...
Basically there is one common rule - start do things that make you happy and satisfied. It is very easy say, but on practice this can mean so many different things, and they all can have different consequences and often other than being happy. What I mean by that is - would you consider that person has freedom just because he/she killed somebody for no reason and got in jail??? or would you consider someone happy when she/he has absolutely no regard to the society around and would spend all the time in solitude....
I think, life, like everything else in life has its rules. Making every next choice how do we know that it would make us happy and would have consequences we want.
It is nearly impossible to predict beforehand all possible alternatives for one or other choice. There is an old story, telling:” My son broke his leg. Is it good or bad? Suddenly war started. Every male was taken to war, except him. Is it good or bad?” Unfortunately there is no way to live life one more time or to see what would happen if....
So, how to make right choices for happy life?
Write down on the list of paper; let’s say 5 things that you absolutely must have in your life. For example, you would think your life is dull without friends, or you think - there is no living without hot bath every week, or maybe happiness of your children/parents is absolute priority for you. Put on paper 5 primary things that are highly important in life, something that makes you very happy when you do it or simply something you want to have.
Did you get all 5???? It is hard to think of them for the beginning, but as soon as you start, things will be clearer to you. Your true values will come up and it will be easier to make decisions, plan. Don’t forget to put those 5 things in priorities. Some things are more important for you than others, make sure you give it deserved acknowledgement.
As soon as you are ready and set, you can make decisions now. For example - should I take this job offer in Thailand? Well, let’s see what is in my list. For example - friends, family, travel to Europe, climbing, and hot tea with milk near fireplace. So let’s see now:
Friends - I like and value friends that I have here, and I am not sure if I would be able to find new one, as good as this ones.
Family - Thailand is far away, I would not be able to visit my parents so often
Travel to Europe –I really would like to visit as much of it this year but it is far from Thailand
Climbing - Thailand is one of the best places for climbing
Hot tea with milk near fireplace - it is like 0% chance happening in Thailand.
So it is 2 strong against, one is strong for, and 2 like 50% 50%. Family is more important for me then anything else...I better take 5 weeks off from work and go travel to Thailand rather then taking this job.
Example I gave is very easy. Of course real life is much harder, and it is much more complicated. Still in this way you will be more directed on happiness with higher chance of succeeding!
Basically there is one common rule - start do things that make you happy and satisfied. It is very easy say, but on practice this can mean so many different things, and they all can have different consequences and often other than being happy. What I mean by that is - would you consider that person has freedom just because he/she killed somebody for no reason and got in jail??? or would you consider someone happy when she/he has absolutely no regard to the society around and would spend all the time in solitude....
I think, life, like everything else in life has its rules. Making every next choice how do we know that it would make us happy and would have consequences we want.
It is nearly impossible to predict beforehand all possible alternatives for one or other choice. There is an old story, telling:” My son broke his leg. Is it good or bad? Suddenly war started. Every male was taken to war, except him. Is it good or bad?” Unfortunately there is no way to live life one more time or to see what would happen if....
So, how to make right choices for happy life?
Write down on the list of paper; let’s say 5 things that you absolutely must have in your life. For example, you would think your life is dull without friends, or you think - there is no living without hot bath every week, or maybe happiness of your children/parents is absolute priority for you. Put on paper 5 primary things that are highly important in life, something that makes you very happy when you do it or simply something you want to have.
Did you get all 5???? It is hard to think of them for the beginning, but as soon as you start, things will be clearer to you. Your true values will come up and it will be easier to make decisions, plan. Don’t forget to put those 5 things in priorities. Some things are more important for you than others, make sure you give it deserved acknowledgement.
As soon as you are ready and set, you can make decisions now. For example - should I take this job offer in Thailand? Well, let’s see what is in my list. For example - friends, family, travel to Europe, climbing, and hot tea with milk near fireplace. So let’s see now:
Friends - I like and value friends that I have here, and I am not sure if I would be able to find new one, as good as this ones.
Family - Thailand is far away, I would not be able to visit my parents so often
Travel to Europe –I really would like to visit as much of it this year but it is far from Thailand
Climbing - Thailand is one of the best places for climbing
Hot tea with milk near fireplace - it is like 0% chance happening in Thailand.
So it is 2 strong against, one is strong for, and 2 like 50% 50%. Family is more important for me then anything else...I better take 5 weeks off from work and go travel to Thailand rather then taking this job.
Example I gave is very easy. Of course real life is much harder, and it is much more complicated. Still in this way you will be more directed on happiness with higher chance of succeeding!
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Find the "point" in life
Sometimes it is so easy to believe that you are zero. People all around seems to have common goal and purpose to say or even mention it to you - YOU ARE ZERO OR CLOSE TO IT... By those or other reasons they seem stronger, better, happier, prettier....
Well it is all possibly true - maybe you are zero, just because you don't have nice job, or car.... or maybe they are just like you and me or at least were like you and me at some point of their life and now they are what they are and you are what you are...
Well it is not that bad after all... Car, job, status - it is all can be gained with right effort at the right angle :) the only thing left to find out is - where is this angle where by applying some strength you can turn the world around.
Well it is all possibly true - maybe you are zero, just because you don't have nice job, or car.... or maybe they are just like you and me or at least were like you and me at some point of their life and now they are what they are and you are what you are...
Well it is not that bad after all... Car, job, status - it is all can be gained with right effort at the right angle :) the only thing left to find out is - where is this angle where by applying some strength you can turn the world around.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Course of life
Often being redundant is like being lost. When person is faced with necessity of choice, weather she/he needs to continue current job and look for possibilities of employment or develop new possibilities within new industries, open new horizons.
Some people are lucky and they know exactly what to do with their life, but for most people, no matter how old they are it is still a big question that needs to be answered.
How the one is to know what is the best job for him/her? What is the best way of life? Industry? What i want in my life?
All those questions can be extremely difficult to answer. Maybe, because it is impossible to have experience in everything at once. There is only vague understanding what is behind big words as Director, Sales Manager, IT, Product analysis...
Maybe, it is because due to the resent development of media, society, people don't need to struggle for survivor anymore. There is no need to prove anything, be the best, or become somebody significant. Today's salary even of unemployed person is enough to have decent living (of course only if he/she doesn't go to pub often).
Some people are lucky and they know exactly what to do with their life, but for most people, no matter how old they are it is still a big question that needs to be answered.
How the one is to know what is the best job for him/her? What is the best way of life? Industry? What i want in my life?
All those questions can be extremely difficult to answer. Maybe, because it is impossible to have experience in everything at once. There is only vague understanding what is behind big words as Director, Sales Manager, IT, Product analysis...
Maybe, it is because due to the resent development of media, society, people don't need to struggle for survivor anymore. There is no need to prove anything, be the best, or become somebody significant. Today's salary even of unemployed person is enough to have decent living (of course only if he/she doesn't go to pub often).
Maybe, it is because of fear. Fear to acknowledge the truth. The truth about your surroundings, your job, yourself, about what you personally like or dislike. Because as soon as you acknowledge it and take it on board, you would need to change something. Changes are not always pleasant....
For those or other reasons some people then continue living the way they are now, constantly wondering what would happen if...
And still some of them make a change to enjoy and live life at full.
We will be looking further on how to find out what to do in life...
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