Live an Ideal Life (Jan 24, 2010)
If you are twenty-five years old now and you are expected to live up to a rich old age of eighty, there will be another 55 years or 20,075 days ahead of you. How are you going to live each day of your life? How many of these days will be used to building relationship with your family, friends, co-workers and people around you? How many of these days will be invested on learning new things, self-growth, contributing to the society and making a difference in the world we live? Will you spend time to find out life’s purpose and live a fulfilling life? Or are you going to live each day with worry, anger, fear and frustration?
One great tragedy of our generation is that most people do not pause and think about life. There are people who merely exist but do not live. They do not know and never try to find out the purpose of life and what type of life they want to live. Ask them why they go to school, and they will be astonished by your question. They will tell you that they go to school to study and that will help them secure good jobs. Ask them why they go to work, and they say because everyone goes to work. So they go to work, spending a big portion of their valuable days on work they don't like to do, with people whom they don't want to see, in a place they don't want to stay. And then they complain about being stressed. They attend stress management seminars and learn stress management techniques for a day, go back to work expecting to be able to handle the stress in the workplace. They are stressed further when they find out that the techniques they had learnt do not work.
Whatever we do today is our own decision. We are where we are now because of all the decisions we made earlier. Every moment is a moment of decision. There are moments when we make bigger decisions but we only reach these bigger decisions because of all the smaller decisions we made before. Being late in the workplace is a decision. Do you know of people who are always late at work? Do you realize that these are the same people who blame the traffic, other drivers, and the weather as the causes for their coming to work late? These are the same people who complain a lot, these are the same people who find their days very “toxic”. How we make use of our day is up to us to decide. Every new day is a gift from God. We decide whether to unwrap that gift or let it stay in a corner of the house to be covered with dust.
Deep within us is the desire to live an ideal life. Again, how do we intend to live each day of our life? What are the things which are important to us? When we choose to compromise our most deeply held values, anything we gain by doing so will be of no real use. If we must betray the unique person we are in order to feed our appetite for fleeting pleasures, we have dealt ourselves a tragic loss.
Imagine living a life that is ideal in every way, filled with meaning for the unique person that you are. Keep that vision constantly in front of you and you will surely do everything you can and move toward it. An ideal life is about much more than impressing others with how clever or fashionable we are.
We are the one who decide and creating our life today. Therefore, make it outstanding; make it an ideal life we want to live. The ups and downs of the moment will come and they will go. What will always remain is our passion for living. We are a dynamic expression of a universe that is overflowing with limitless possibilities. Choose to live up to our highest potential. We can learn to focus on our most compelling and authentic desires, for in them we will find boundless energy to achieve. Do truly great things for the world by doing what gives us real fulfillment.
Esther Law is a director, consultant, trainer, Past Division Governor of Toastmasters International, President for Lions Club of Kuching Host (2009-2010). Esther is also the Overseas Director of Fuda Cancer Hospital, Guangzhou, China. If you have any comments about this article you can contact her at lawleepoh@gmail.com
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