Do You Know What You Really Want?
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Bad times present golden opportunities to re-assess your goals
When times are good we are busy rushing from task to task, expecting the future to be better than the past and looking forward to improving our own circumstances. We are fixated on materialistic gains and living the good life in a culture which tells us that work is the only highly valued activity. So much so that we don’t realize how this same culture is sucking us dry and making our lives a misery of stress and anxiety.
The times are probably not so good for many of us now, and the future does not look so bright. Perhaps now is a good time to look at whether still striving hard to reach that “nirvana” of achievement and acquisitions is a good idea? Why do we do it? Is it because we don’t know what else to do? Is it because we are programmed by our culture? Whichever it is, when we are anxious about the future we forget to live in the present.
Better decisions
Rushed and hurried decisions will often backfire on you because they are made without due thought to the way they will work, how others will react to them and whether they are really answering the problem you have. They also backfire, because if you haven’t thought them through you will be unable to justify to yourself or anyone else the reasoning behind what you plan to do, and what steps you’ll need to take to keep your plans on track.
Taking time to reflect on the way you organize your life is never wasted. Working towards a goal which does not promise happiness or fulfillment is a mug’s game. All your efforts go towards the end result and you forget to live your life while you are trying to get there. If you are not careful, you’ll be old before you’ve realized it and your life will just have been one long struggle, probably towards gaining something you didn’t even really want.
Better priorities
If you cannot spare the time to enjoy those things you work so hard to achieve you need to rethink your priorities. Money, career, position - they all pale into insignificance when you realize that in the rush to succeed you have left no time for family, friends, enjoyment and even solitude - something which is priceless when you are worried and concerned with many doubts and troubles to think over. Try to give yourself time to “smell the roses.”
You need to move from the fast pace of constant striving to one of calmness and clarity. Rejection of the materialistic culture you’ve been striving for means a change in values and priorities. One of the most important aspects of living a good life is to pace yourself. If you do this, everything you do will be considered and well thought out. You’ll have time to collect your thoughts and quiet your mind before coming to any decisions.
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