25 secrets to good life
Each of us has our own way
of life, “indifferences” as they call it. But the reality is that even how
different we are and the way we live, there is still one universal truth,
values and principles that is governing our world. These truths are both simple
and general that if you try to learn and apply them in your life, a great
change can happen.
Such truth gives other
people a chance to find their place in this world and to live their life to its
fullness. While for others who does not know these principles, it makes their
life so hard, dull and miserable.
The question now is, how can achieve the good life and live life
to the fullest?
Learning and knowing the
answer to this question can help you make your life as happier and successful
as it should be.
So if you are serious in
creating positive changes in your life, start learning and applying the
principles of living the good life.
1. Live Today
Past can’t be brought back
and the future will always be uncertain. Today is yours, so make the most of
it.
2. Maintain Balance
Your life is affected by
the four aspects that are mental (brain), emotional (heart), spiritual
(faith) and physical (body). Learn to maintain balance of the four
aspects, for as Spice girls have sung, “Too much of something is bad”.
3. Forgive and Forget
The only person that
suffers when you do not forgive is YOU. The other person is probably caring
less of what you feel. Be kind to yourself and forget about it.
4. Accept Change as Part of Life
The more you can adapt to
change, the easier your life is because change can open bigger and better
possibilities for you, if only you’d accept it.
5. Visit Places You Never Been
Seeing a new place let you
discover and learn more of other things in your life. It helps you expand your
perspective and horizon.
6. Read Books
The best way to live is
through continuously learning. Try to be better than “normal” yourself. Keep
expanding and growing.
7. Attend Classes
Just like the swimming
lessons you’ve always wanted to take back in high school. Remember that you’d
never be too old to learn and discover where you really can win and be happy.
8. Take Time to Make Memories and Keep Your Journals
We should not wait for memories
to happen, we should make memories happen. Find time to create memories with
others. Make a note of each moment you do not want to forget, both the good and
bad. Read your journal once in a while to see how far you’ve gone along.
Surely, it will make you SMILE.
9. Capture the Moments
The ability to retrieve a
memory decreases exponentially unless boosted by artificial aids like
photographs and videos. Start taking those pictures you’d like to
look back in your old days.
10. Smile
Nothing beats a cheerful
heart and mind. Be happy regardless. Make the world a better place to live in.
Start sharing your sweet smile.
11. Join a Club
To learn more about yourself is by being more
exposed in to new people and learning from them. It will help you and
everyone else grow; we evolve at the rate of the tribe we are plugged
into.
12. Learn to Give
The old saying would always be true, “The more you
give, the more you receive”. Our value as human being resides on what we can
give and not on our capacity of receiving. Start spreading goodness by giving.
13. Spend Time With The Young Ones
There’s no better stress reliever than the joy and
positive feeling given by the free spirit of a young one.
14. Open Your Ears to the Elders
Listening to the old ones makes you a year wiser.
Remember, the best way to learn and avoid extreme failure is through the
experiences of others.
15. Accept and Manage Failure
Do not be afraid to make mistake. Most successful
people have gone thru multiple failures. A great treasure of wisdom is hidden
on every failure.
16. Take Risk
Life is full of chances and you do not live if you
do not take chances. As they say, the higher the risk the higher possibility of
success.
17. Cry
Who said that boys and big girls don’t cry? You need
to cry, it eases the burden plus it will keep you from having diseases that’s
caused by emotional pains.
18. Respect Other’s Opinion
Who wins in an argument? Keep yourself from
arguments. Nothing is solved with a heated talk. Learn to listen to what others
may say without necessary believing and taking them as true for you.
19. Take a Break
Reward yourself for a days’ work. Take that break,
you deserve it and you need it in re-energizing yourself to another day of
work.
20. Work Smart, Not Hard
The most stressed people are those who do not know
how to work smart. Do not take the entire task to yourself. Remember, you are
not alone in this world. Learn to maximize and trust the abilities of others.
It’s not a weakness to ask for help.
21. Be Yourself
Don’t try to act like someone else just to please
everyone. You don’t have to, plus you can’t. Stand firm to who you are.
Eventually, you’d discover who are worth keeping in your life from those who
are not.
22. Start Caring
People don’t care how much you know, they want to
know how much you care. Start caring and let the people know that you care.
Remember, that relationship is more lasting than accomplishments and prestige.
23. Meditate
Take a time to be with yourself and be silent.
Such can relax the fast-pace life you are in and helps you discover more of
whom you are and who you can become.
24. Discover Your Definite Purpose
Life is a journey. As you go along your journey,
set your maps. Discover the right you at the right place and time. To help you
discover, ask yourself, “If there was no praise or criticism in the world, then
who would you be?”
Once you know the answer, you are right there.
25. Live Life with the World
Do not live for yourself alone; remember that
there are other people and creatures that surrounding this world. Even if
unaware, every move and action you take creates an effect to others.
So learn to take responsibility of your actions.
And start contributing your knowledge and experience for the benefit of the
whole world.
Life is not easy nor that tough neither.
Having a good life and living our life to its fullness is merely a choice. So make that choice
to live life to it’s fullest.
How? Is a long list! And unfathomable
life is, this list has surely have not covered all the ways. You too have
your own share on how to live life to its fullest. Feel free to start
contributing it here.
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