Live Your Best Life

Each minute of our life is a lesson but most of us fail to read it. I thought I would just add my daily lessons & the lessons that I learned by seeing the people around here. So it may be useful for you and as memories for me.

As human beings, one of our deepest-rooted desires is to have a meaningful and happy existence. You’ve probably heard of the saying, “Live your best life.” It’s good advice.

Living your best life means creating a life that you are proud of, so you want to make sure you are doing your best. But how, exactly, do you live your best life? How do you make ? What does it really mean to live your best life?

We all want to feel connected to both ourselves and others. We want to feel that we’re part of something important and that we’re making a difference in the world.

We want to look back at our lives and our achievements and be proud. In short, we want what the saying says: to live our best lives.

To live your best life, you need to be the best version of yourself. And that is not possible until you know everything about yourself.

You need to figure out what your strengths and weaknesses are. Observe yourself for a couple of weeks. Observe how you react to different situations and note down your observations. Then, take steps to adjust your behavior so that you can be a better person. It is important to acknowledge we are human and not perfect. If you are not doing something well, learn to do it better.

Here is an interesting story of a person called Joy, who always dreamed for a better life.

Joy was sitting on the bench in a park and was thinking about his future. There were many questions in heart and mind like, what to do, to become successful it his life! Not sure on what is it in him a factor of success. He was not either clear or have an idea of what to do. He underestimates about himself and have no confidence in, as talented as others. He always thinks, he is not meant for achieving anything.

Every time he walks out park, disappointed about his life. He reaches to the house with sadness in every nerve. His mom asks him “why are you so sad these days?”. Joy doesn’t reply his mom and goes to bed for sleep and struggles to fall asleep, with mindful of anxiety toward his life and career.

Next day morning he wakes up with hopeless feeling. But to overcome this feeling of hopelessness, plans to watch some motivational videos to keep himself motivated. After watching few videos, gained some relief and kept hope to himself that he can do somewhat in his life to keep going.

Joy browses some skill development videos on YouTube. The videos is about all Top skills of Highest Paying in IT. Joy thinks for a while to get trained in Tech Skills and Programming. Joy Starts upskills by watching tutorials on YouTube. He continued for a week to learning the skills. Later, he gave up as he was unable to understand the any of the concepts in it . He got disappointed and depressed. After that, he got a call from his friends that they have arranged party for cracking a best paid job. Onn force of all friends he attends the party.

Joy attended the party. All his friends welcomed joy with so much enthusiasm and love. The party was held at a Five-star Hotel with great grandeur. All his friends celebrated their success. After the Party, Joy reached home with inferiority and stressed. Joy questioned himself and his abilities “why I am not able perform well, as my friends ?” . Joy felt bad about himself and so depressed to his life failures till the date.

After a long struggle within, Joy decided himself that he was unfit for IT industry.

Next day morning, he was read in a newspaper and he saw some job posts related to banking sectors with some decent salary .. Joy thought to himself “This is to be the better option for me to make my life better “.

So, he decided to prepare for banking exam. He bought all the materials required and joined on a coaching center. Joy tried his best and worked very hard. But failure followed him with huge competitions in real. He failed twice in exam and he struggled to core within himself and among everyone.

Adamantly, he kept his spirit to prove himself and dreaming for a better place. Had hold all the fire of complexities he was going through and consistently worked for exams.

Finally cracked the prelims and mains in banking exam, he was shortlisted for an interview.

With all the lessons learnt and the strength gained in failures Joy attended the interview with great confidence in his quality of not giving up. Interview Panel was impressed with Joy attitude towards life.

After awaiting log Joy got interview results. Joy was full of confident on results yet fearful went check results. To his shock, he was not selected.

After seeing this , joy was depressed. Not knowing what is happening to him and all unanswered questions in mind, he cried every moment.

He lost a thought of success and only questions remained on his failures.

After few days , he met a monk at ashram where he went to practice meditation to get control on thoughts in his mind. He visited this monk and asked “swami ji , can I ask you one thing , with your permission ? “

“yes , my dear boy “ said monk it polite and soft voice .

“ From long time, I am facing a lot of failures in my life “ paused and said Joy “ even after giving my best . All my friends achieved success better that me. I stood out nothing compared to them “.

For his question monk said” I will tell you a story, you will come to know how you can achieve success!”

Monk started telling the story.

“In a forest, there was a lion which was very huge in life. One day all the animals arranged running race, it that race the cheetah wins. The lion felt inferior and discourage about losing the race and questioned itself “why I can’t run as fast as cheetah? Am I good enough as him?”

And other day, Elephant and lion keeps the weight lifting challenge . The elephant lifts the heavy weight with its trunk with ease. Again, The Lion lost this challenge and starts questioning itself “Am I not Strong enough as this elephant? “and felt inferior to the elephant.

“Feeling low, the lion slept in the Den. All the animals it the forest were also asleep. The hunters started to hunt all the animals and fired the forest .Sudden chaos in forest, the lion got furious and attacked all the hunters with its claws and roared with its loud voice which is scarier and made the hunters to run away in fear . And the lion saved its forest and became the king. All Animal saluted to the lion and bow to savoir of forest.”

“Then the Lion realized for what we he was capable of. And stopped comparing itself to other animals “

Monk concluded that “Everyone of us, has our own talents. We can’t compare anyone with others “.

Thus, Joy realized that he has some hidden talent in him. And thanked the monk for this wonderful message.

Joy decided to read books to make himself better. He read multiple personality development books and novels. Joy was inspired after reading to tell Stories. He thought himself “why can’t I inspire people by writing stories “

. Joy decides to become a writer. Joy trained in creative writings. After completion of the course, Joy collected some Story concepts to write a story and publish.

Joy wrote his debut novel after many struggles published it. His Novel became bestseller in one of the in New York and gave him a successful career.

Joy became successful after maty failures and continued his interest as a writer and won many prizes in literature.

After the huge success, a TV channel interviewed Joy and asked “ what made him a successful writer ? “

Joy answered, “ I was a failure and depressed ,I lead hopeless in my life . Then, I was realized to focus on what matters me to the most that made me successful.

Final thoughts

Whether it is about your career or your personal life, you need to keep learning. Sometimes life does not go according to our plans. Do not get demotivated. Learn new skills, improve the existing ones, gain new soft skills, work on your character — and do anything else that will bring you to your best life.

You only live once — so you must be sure you are making the most of it. When you are in your eighties and cannot make any more memories, you need to have a plethora of exciting memories to look back on.

Article by Hari Kumar

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