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Live Life to the Fullest Through Personal Growth
Guest posting spots for October are now open and I’d like to invite you to participate. The theme will be Winning Attitude which covers the attitudes we need to have to grow and overcome challenges in life. Three examples are patience, persistence, and resilience, but there are still many other attitudes that can be covered.
Please read Guest Posting Guidelines for more information.
Do you want to live a happy life? If you say yes like most people do, then it’s important to learn to enjoy life. Some people may think that they can only enjoy life when they already have a lot of money or have a successful career. But that’s not true. You can enjoy your life where you are with what you already have. You can enjoy your life now.
Here I will share with you how to enjoy life. But before that, I’d like to share two tips that are essential to live a happy life. The first one is to be grateful. I can’t emphasize enough how important it is. No matter how many pleasant things you do, if you don’t learn to be grateful you will always see things negatively.
The second one is to slow down. Life has a lot of simple things you can enjoy. But if you move too fast you will overlook most of them. So don’t be in a hurry. Don’t move too quick. Slow down and pay attention to the world around you. Most of the ways I’m about to share will work well only if you slow down.
Note: This is a guest post by Aileen of Aileen Journey.
I’ve always thought that you had to follow the regular tradition of working a regular job and earning a good deal of money in order to have the “right” kind of life. What I wanted, though, was different. I wanted complete freedom. I wanted to go sit in cafes and bike ride and write. I have many things I want to say and I wanted to get my ideas out in to the world and get feedback on them.
The problem is, I am the only parent of my two small children. I tried starting a retail store, which, I thought, would give me the passive income to be able to take care of my kids while having my time to myself. Unfortunately, a business partner ran it into the ground before I could get any income from it.
So, I took a regular job teaching high school. Then, because that job only helped me make ends meet (since I had big debts that my business partner left me with), I took a second job teaching college online. I was an incredibly busy person and pretty overwhelmed. I wanted out, but didn’t know what to do. Once I was out of debt, my lifestyle still cost quite a bit of money.
Note: This is a guest post by Ron Haynes of The Wisdom Journal.
In times past, someone might work for the same company for 40 years, retire, and get that gold watch. Today, people change careers every seven years on average and may take on a position that reports to many people. For the purposes of this article, I estimated that at my company, a store manager may have to report to as many as 33 people on one issue or another. She may report to someone on loss prevention, another person on inventory issues, another on training, another on human resources, another on purchasing, another on receiving and still another on credit issues. Some of these “bosses” may be in different locations or even overseas.
Today’s worker risks a high frustration level because of the multitude of bosses he or she must report to and it’s become a job just to manage all the different priorities that are thrown at one worker. The problem isn’t that multiple bosses ask a worker to do so many things, it’s that they ask the same worker to do so many things at the same time! Conflict becomes inevitable when so many people think their request should be your top priority.
Everyone wants to have a fulfilling life. Unfortunately, many people miss a key ingredient to have it: finding their life purpose. They may spend years of their life only to find at the end that they have done the wrong things. Many others achieve fame and financial success but feel empty inside.
Don’t make the same mistake. Your time is too precious to waste.
Why You Should Find Your Life Purpose
Here are three reasons why you should find your life purpose:
1. It gives meaning to everything you do
Your life purpose makes everything you do meaningful. You could be successful outside, but if you don’t find meaning you will feel empty inside.
2. It directs and guides you
Not only can your life purpose give you meaning, but also it can give you clear direction of where to go in life. It helps you make big decisions in life. People who don’t find their life purpose don’t have a strong foundation upon which to make their decisions. They most likely will just follow popular opinions.
At September 7, 2006, the first post here was published. So it’s now the second anniversary of Life Optimizer!
It’s been one year since I wrote the first anniversary post and I’ve learned a lot since then. I learned not only about blogging but also about personal growth and life in general. That’s what I love about blogging: it speeds up my learning process.
This blog has also experienced healthy growth in the past year. The number of subscribers grew from about 1200 one year ago to about 5400 now. The traffic level, especially organic traffic from search engines, has also increased steadily.
Of course, all these are possible because of you, the reader. Without your support and participation, this blog wouldn’t come anywhere near where it is now. It’s you who motivate me to keep learning and writing.
So let me say this to you:
Thank you!
