We All Deserve a Great Life

Life is too short to live

Therefore, it is very important to know oneself quickly and start living in a right way. The surrounding is always offering us with new challenges and complexities. Failure to manage those properly means distraction, anxiety, stress or depression. If not controlled, these may engulf us.

Knowing oneself can be divided into two categories; knowing one’s inner-self and knowing one’s outer-self. Inner-self is the most important one as one can easily have control over it.

But in case of outer-self, we cannot impose as control is not in our hand. Rather, we try to adapt or adjust ourselves in order to survive.

Scorpions - Life Is Too Short

Always maintaining a balance between our inner and outer being is a daunting task. At any of point in life, our life may come to a standstill. But we need to keep moving in spite of all adversaries. Time is the most valuable asset. We need to ensure the best use of it during our lifetime.

Taking Care of your body

The first and foremost important thing is taking care of our body. If we do not keep healthy, all other things will go in vain. We need to take the right kind of foods which build our body and have to avoid consciously the kind which are detrimental such as smoking, drinking, unhealthy junk foods and so on.

At the same time, drinking sufficient amount water daily is necessary. Our food habit directly impacts our body, mind and overall well being. That is why we need to be very conscious about this first before thinking about other factors.

Next essential thing is to sleep properly; sleeping for a specific period, fixing a specific time for going to bed and getting up, keeping no gadgets like phone set or music pods around while sleeping.

Why We Sleep: Science of Sleep & Dreams | Matthew Walker | Talks at Google

Every single day, maintaining these principles strictly will get us fit and ready for the next endeavor. We must keep in mind our organs like brain, heart, lung, kidney; eyes are the most important parts which ensure our smooth living every day.

If we carelessly handle and operate these invaluable assets, we will have no option to replace and have to carry the peril throughout our whole life. We must remember that no precious currency or metal can purchase these. If we erode inside, we cannot conquer the outside ourselves.

Brain or Heart : Managing your emotions intelligently

Only human being, the greatest creature on the planet, has a developed brain which allows it to think and choose from alternatives containing both good and bad options.

Every single day, after getting up, we start to come in contract with dozens of things and each of these requires us to respond. These are called stimuli. We can consciously choose our responses against these stimuli.

When any stimuli affect us, it first sends signals to our head to decide about that. After it gets settled, the decision goes to heart for getting our body and mind ready to respond for that.

Our heart, in a word, triggers us to move or act. Its activities create emotions which mean to move. One thing is very important to remember that heart cannot think. Thinking and deciding is head’s activity.

Heart is only responsible for the driving force for which we feel to react to a certain action. Heart triggers multiple emotions like fear, anger, disgust, love, happiness, surprise, sadness and so on. Prioritizing head over heart is important.

Otherwise, chances of making wrong decisions increase. That is why we have to educate ourselves about our emotions, learn to control those properly, and always need to remain vigilant so that heart cannot rule over the head.

We have to instill this habit into us from early childhood and exercise every single day in such way that we become a mastermind of our own life before exposing ourselves to the true adventure of life.

Understanding Others' emotions and manage relation with them accordingly

When we are fully known about our emotions, we have to be aware of those of the people surrounding us. It is the key to managing relations with them.

Seinfeld: Emotional Intelligence - Self Management

Our relations can give us either strength or pain. It depends. But we need to manage those from our inside in the sense that we cannot directly control the emotions of others.

That is why it is important to understand that we surely choose to adapt or adjust for a sustainable relationship.

Balance between Expectations and Achievements

Balancing between expectations and achievements is essential because failure to find a trade-off between these two may cause serious pressure, anxiety or depression.

Having too many goals, thinking about long distant goals and failing to prioritize cause muddle thinking and confusion in life.

Long distant goals can be broken into small pieces and we have to make sure that these small parts are successfully completed each day.

We need to whole-heartedly focus on our present, neither the past nor the future. We cannot ignore the challenges that our life offers daily and cannot also ignore the pressure to be able to rightly handle those. But we need to remain absolutely focused so that we are not engulfed by those.

Life may not always be same. So what? Stay Calm and just breathe well. Things will surely change sooner or later. But never give up and get lost. Nothing is more important in this planet than you and your life.

Habit is very powerful

If we do not control our habits, these take control of us. Then, we become the product of our habits. We must be aware of all our habits and how these are affecting us.

Bad habits always cost us in terms of wealth, energy, relationship and time. If we let these go for long, these will cause huge damage to our life. We will grow our own urge to have in-depth knowledge about habit making, breaking or replacing with a new one.

If we can successfully follow the above mentioned factors, we can be the champion of our own life who will then be ready to win the external world.

The Power of Habit: Charles Duhigg at TEDxTeachersCollege

Interaction with non-living objects

How are we interacting with our surroundings is very important. We interact not only with living beings but also with non-living objects and virtual realities.

With the increase of our interactions in virtual platforms or market places, our human interactions are going down. Exposing to too much information is another menace.

Prioritizing and maintaining a focused life is becoming very crucial. We have to be strictly on our track in case whatever difficult or bad times come to our life. A lot of things will always force us to distract. It can be sometimes abundance or sometimes it can be abject poverty. But we must not slip.

Last Words

Our life time is short. It needs to be managed in a proper way. In other words, we need to live our life in a right way. We need to manage the stimuli surrounding us. We need to take care of our health, mind, and soul. We have to educate ourselves about our emotions and, thereby, manage ourselves properly. We also need to be aware of the emotions of others as well so that we can maintain a healthy relationship with them.

We should not be forgetful of the distractions and our growing interactions with virtual realities. We will eliminate bad habits and develop good ones.

We are the most respectful, mighty and dignified creature in this planet. Our life and time is the most valuable asset. Let’s utilize these in the best possible way and leave a great legacy here for our generations before closing our eyes.