The Why of Life!!
June 1, 2008
Do you find yourself bogged down certain time end of day and begin to question yourself why on earth am I doing all this. This tires you a lot and does not get you any happiness or satisfaction. You work hard and yet do not get what you want or rather don’t feel like you have achieved something in life. If this is case how do you solve this?
There is another set of people who say that “I have been wanting to achieve lot of things in life but I don’t feel to have that fire, determination and will to achieve”.
Like I always say, the Mind, Body and Soul must have to act in tandem and achieve excellence in life. When you are not able to find a solution to achieve something in life, it is because that you do not find the congruence of the mind, body and soul. Why do they not be in line? Simple, what drives us every day it not logic, but EMOTIONS.
So what are these emotions? Do you find a lot of people who work hard, travel a lot and have a lot of money, luxury and yet do not find the answer to the all persuasive question ‘Why am I doing this’.
Do this exercise: Write down the list of all the positive feeling, emotions that you would like to have in your life. What do you want in your life? What is most important for your in Life. List down at least 5 of them. (e.g. Career, Family, Health, Money and so on)
As you do it, also list down 5 things that you want to avoid in your life, what you would not want to have in your life (e.g. Embarrassment, failure and so on)
Look at the first list of what you want. Say for example, for you Family is very important in life, then everything that you do would be for them only. And in this situation if you were to not spend time with your family you may feel guilty about it. So there is no Congruence between the mind, body and soul. And hence you would feel drained and de-motivated to work on things.
In fact its these values that drives people to achieve things. It acts as a fuel to an engine. And if the fuel is not effective, the performance also is not great! Which means that if your values are not aligned then they do not act as a driving force but acts as friction while taking Action to reach your Goals.
If you find that the values do not match to what you want to achieve, then either change the values or understand yourself more and then based on that decide what you must have to do. This will be a big driving force for your every day where you can act with motivation and the fire in you!
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The article “The Why of Life” has given the solution to my why. I am now motivated and more confident towards my goals.
Thanks to Life of Excellence.
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Bharadwaj
there many things , so many books , so many blogs . etc on how to be happy etc
but i am still searching for that one singe truth .. that one single thing if we become , or if we do , we become content and happy ..
people talk about passion , value , resilience , belief , postive thinking , hard work , planning , action , love , focus, persistence , not letting up things , thinking creatively, developing skills , managing your time ……..
so much gyan available today .. but what is the single , a sinle slogan , which if we keep at it , will result in contentment , happniess , awareness , feel in control