We often find ourselves questioning life. Some time or the other, this question pops up in our minds: What makes life worth living?
Dilemmas encumber the clear vision that we inherently possess. Here are a few goal-setting tools that will help you to make your life worth living and find happiness:
Defining a Meaningful Life Worth Living
One of the biggest fears that human beings have is whether they are living meaningful lives. People spend time effortlessly seeking possible answers about life. Everyone is aiming to be the best version of themselves.
Many prominent personalities have invested their time and efforts to answer such great questions about what makes life worth living and other interconnected realms. They have stated various definitions as to what life is!
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What is Life?
Life is nothing else but the mere existence of beings. All the things in the world around us contribute to our lives in their ways, making us better or worse. It is like a train journey with many stops but a single destination.
We often keep asking ourselves fundamental questions like -Who are we? Why do we exist? What is the need to wake up in the morning?
We keep questioning our lives but all in vain. Instead of complicating things, we need to simplify them. Instead of finding meaning in everything, we should aim to make everything meaningful, contributing to our happiness.
Following are the ways of creating a life worth living and striving to make it even better
1. Move with The Cheese: Adapt to Changes Quickly
1.1. What Was the Book About?
The question about the meaning of life is appropriately mentioned in the book– “Who Moved My Cheese” by Dr. Spencer Johnson.
He has used the metaphor-cheese for what we want to pursue and have in life. It has been told boldly that Cheese will keep moving and that changes will keep taking place. It is you who has to move with the cheese and enjoy it.
This book suggests that in life, when you give up the fear of change, you get a step closer to achieving goals. By adapting to changes quickly, you make your life worth living and meaningful.
Nobody has seen tomorrow, so why stress about it. The important thing is to learn from the past and be grateful for the present.
1.2. Summary of the Book:
Being fearful about upcoming changes is a waste of time as change is inevitable. This theory summarized on one of the pages of the book says:
- Change Happens
- Anticipate change
- Monitor Change
- Adapt to Change quickly
- Change
- Enjoy change!
- Be ready to change quickly and enjoy it again and again!
It is important to note that you need to be like flowing water that never goes stale rather than still water, which is just a breeding ground of negativity! Keep flowing!
Keep moving and struggling through life instead of waiting for things to get better on their own!
2. Ichi-Go-Ichi-E: Stay in the Moment
2.1. Importance of ‘Candid Moments:
You create a meaningful life worth living with the ability to stay in the present. Moments are unrepeatable; they never happen again with the same intensity and power.
Moments are inherently special and give the motivation to strive for a fulfilling life.
Life is a summation of small moments. These moments build us and break us. It is we who set the narrative. Most people forget to live life as it is.
Due to the over-complication of everything, we forget to live in the moment and enjoy the sanctity of every moment at hand.
The biggest fear that we have is what if we lose everything in the future, due to which we do not respect the gravity of current moments. When you start living in the present, you forget your past and better your future.
3. All You Need is Love: Spend Quality Time with Loved Ones
3.1. Meaningful Relationships are the Key to Happiness
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Healthy relationships with friends and family make life easier. Whether that of parents, husband-wife, or brother-sister, a relationship improves us as humans and makes us better people.
There is so much to learn from everyone and everything. Everyone has a source of inspiration, a source of joy that plays a notable role in shaping them. It can be your family or friends or any close one.
The comforting words of a parent, partner, or any person close to you, help you get back on your toes and rebuild the burnt empire at hand. When you talk with your loved ones, you find the answer to the matter you were indulged in.
A simple word of gratitude can make someone’s day and make their life worth living. When you maintain healthy relationships, you focus on the bright side of life.
People like us make society. If we build healthy relationships, it gives hope to society as a whole and hence to the world enabling it to be a better place.
Talk more often with your loved ones who play an important role in your life!
4. Purpose Fuels Passion: Fuel Your Passion
4.1. Be Passionate About the Things You Love
Pay close attention to the things that matter. Discover things that give joy to you. Creating a life worth living is not difficult if you find your passion: something that gives you happiness and makes you alive.
As rightfully mentioned in the top-selling book, Ikigai, a life worth living can be created only when you discover your Ikigai: a reason to wake up in the morning.
Ikigai is a beautiful combination of passion, mission, profession, and vocation. You should be aware of what you love, what you are good at, what the world needs, and what you can be paid for.
It is easy to find joy when you reflect upon your insights and dreams. Find your passion and stick to it.
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For some people, passion can be following their religion, while for others, it can be a degree they wish to complete. Spot your passion, and you have already won half the battle!
5. The Greatest Wealth is Health: Get Healthy
5.1. Nothing Else but Health Gets You Ready for Upcoming Challenges
According to World Health Organization (WHO), health was defined as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
Being physically, mentally, and socially well constitutes good health. Most people do not realize the importance of mental and physical wellness in making life worth living.
5.1.1. Tips to Improve Health
Take these small decisions and improve your health
- Correct your sleep schedule
- Check your salt and sugar intake
- De-stress yourself
- Take dietary supplements according to your need
- Stretch more often
- Start meditating
- Have more greens; Correct your eating habits
- Drink more water
- Get regular check-ups done
- Eat nuts and seeds
6. Small Changes Make Big Differences: Make Amendments
6.1. It is with the Combination of Small Efforts that We Create a Life Worth Living
Small life changes create a more significant impact and contribute to making life worth living.
It is your job to create a life you love. Go ahead, and make changes. Take small steps! Keep your alarm clock away to wake up early.
Take the stairs. Skip today’s dessert. Go on that long ago planned family trip. Have a cup of coffee with old friends. Play with your kids a little extra today!
Look for new ideas. It is the small ideas that curate significant revolutions. Make minor amendments that will lead to a better life. Small amendments keep you updated and ready for new changes too!
7. It is Okay to Take a Break: Stop Stressing
7.1. Your Problems are Not Bigger Than Your Courage
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Sometimes, it is essential to wait and get yourself charged up instead of moving ahead with low batteries.
Recharging yourself is as essential as breathing. Sometimes, it is just a break that you need to make life worth living.
It can be a small family trip or quality time learning about your religion and the practices of your religion. You can take a Psychology course or language course or just play with your younger sibling.
It can simply be lying down and waiting for a while. Sometimes doing nothing at all prepares you for doing everything together! Take a break, refuel yourself and come back stronger.
8. Time is Better than Money: Use Time Wisely
8.1. Time Waits for None. So, What are You Waiting for?
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Buddha once said in his sermon that a grave trouble is that you think you have time.
Most people do not realize that time gone is never going to come back. It takes time to build an empire that you can rule. It takes time to heal, so head in the direction life takes you.
Happiness is not a foreign concept. You are inherently happy when you value your time and others’ time and make the best use of it.
Keep track of your time as you do in case of money. Live as if there is no tomorrow!
If writing gives you happiness, write! If sports are your happy place, play! If teaching gives you peace, teach! If you like to read Science or History or Psychology, do it!
If food is where your heart is, eat! If following your religion makes life worth living, go ahead and do that!
Make the best out of your life. Honestly, without thinking much, do any and everything out of the limited time you have. Do what you feel makes life worth living in that limited time.
9. Human Beings and Their Take on Life
Everyone inherently has a rough idea as to what makes life worth living. People have the knowledge to steer their lives themselves. It is just that we stop listening to our inner voice. We stop following the knowledge imparted by our conscience.
Humans love to overcomplicate things! What makes life worth living is gratitude, patience, and consistency. Overthinking leads to no happiness. We can find meaning in life if we discover our principles and stick to them without over-analyzing the course of life.
When your mother advises you to go to bed early, meditate daily, exercise more often, eat properly and smile more often, she’s right! It is always a small change that makes life worth living! Listen to her straight away.
Take Away
Hold on, Warrior: Everything is Going to be Alright!
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If you are struggling with anything in life, hold on! The sun will rise again. The rains will return. You will find meaning in the things happening around sooner or later. There is no point in being sad about that yet!
The most important thing is that you have started finding answers to such great questions. And that is the first step you took to make your life better!
You have started trying to understand the psychology of such difficult questions as to what makes life worth living.
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The answers are simple. You curate your version of a ‘meaningful life.’ You add meaning to your own lives. Whether it is finding happiness with family, friends, or other relationships, it is your job to make your life worth living, which you can easily do by following such small steps!
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