How will you measure your life?

Dream as if you will live forever, live as if you’ll die today.

Our life can be as long as we can make it to be and as short as we can wish.

Life is all about developing various relationships with family, relatives, friends, fellows, work, money, objects, hobbies, and last but not least with yourself.

We all want to love, be loved, learn, teach, mentor, take on responsibilities, acquire various assets, contribute, create, get recognized, be powerful and off course be wealthy.

Now developing any relationship involves giving and taking and if the end result is to be happy we must give more and never expect to get something back. But that’s where unhappiness comes in because all we expect is something back from any/all relationship.

Life becomes complicated because of this give and take game whereas the goal is to make it simple. So you need a strategy to define your life to ensure enduring happiness in any relationship situation.

You are the director of your life but more than often life goes into an endless spiral of uncontrolled spin and there is very little you can do to control it. In such a situation all you have to do is to hold on to it till you get a hang of it. Much of our pain is self-chosen. Just remember there is always an end to any beginning and a new beginning after each end.

We all generally take risks not out of bravado but out of ignorance and blindness to probability and this happens with all of us in almost all life situations.

But that’s the way we all learn the lessons of life isn’t it.

Life is all about making mistakes and the more mistakes you make the more wise you become. Life teaches you by testing you before you learn your lesson, quite opposite to school where you are taught a lesson before test. The good thing about life is that it will give as many chances to anyone who is willing to get up and start again.

Even if you fail all the times, you can still take a new start. At the end of the day you will feel satisfied that you have taken all the chances you could and have played the card well.

It is also true that we cannot go back in life and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

The idea is that later in your life if you have a chance to measure your life; you should be able to feel good about it on any scale.

To have a purpose in life can be a good beginning point to help you give direction to your life.

The idea of selection and pursuing a profession to your satisfaction can be one way to achieve the purpose of your life.

For a successful and satisfactory professional pursuit you must decide on the right mix of resources allocation to shape your life’s strategy. People who are driven to excel have this unconscious propensity to under invest in their families and over-invest in their careers—even though intimate and loving relationships with their families are the most powerful and enduring source of happiness.  

If your purpose in life is as simple as to be happy then all you have to do is simply be realistic and lower your expectations from the world around you.

There was and will never be something like a perfect life.

Another important fact of life is that it does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. The point to remember is the life goes on, with you, without you, so while you are there enjoy the ride.

If we try to group the world around us we can group them in two ways, one where we can do something to change the outcome, second where we cannot do anything to change the outcome. Most of us try to fiddle with the second and spend our energy to change something which cannot be changed.

It all depends which door you open and which door you leave closed. Take a close look because more than often the most important things in life are not things to even bother about.

More time in our life is spent in waiting for any action than the action itself, so why not learn to have fun while standing in a queue, that way we can have more happiness in our life.

Lastly do not worry about life; as we all are not going to survive it anyway.