Who’s Controlling Your Life?I noticed that the biggest frustration people go through comes from the limited possibility to freely use their time. But, surprisingly, most of them are not concerned about regaining control of their lives. I don’t know how you are, but when my time is on other people’s agenda, I get mad. Finally, your time is your life. This is the most valuable resource we were given by the time we were born. Regaining control of your life is your responsibility. Otherwise, you’ll end up living other people’s lives, not yours… It is finally a matter of learning and practicing a new way of thinking. For most people, there is normal to sell their time in exchange for money. As long as their jobs’ tasks and responsibilities coincide with what they like to do and the environment they are working in is the place where they really want to be, it is okay. But the probability for us to experience unexpected changes in the working conditions is high. It happens simply because there are other people who decide what we are supposed to do – they are those paying us, so our time (aka our lives!) is yours! Of course you might say that once arrived in such a situation you have the freedom to resign. It is true, but the story will go on with your new job where your new bosses will have the same right to decide what you should do with your time. Needless to say that resigning is not as easy for everybody. Trapped into the debts’ cage, most people depend on their monthly earnings, so it is not always so simple to make the decision to resign. The problem is that people end up accepting too easy to waste their time in this way. The reason to have to make a living is for most people a good excuse for not doing the effort of thinking about the meaning of their life. We take for granted the fact that we are in a situation that cannot be changed. We think that our particular case is different from others’ situations. But once we realize that every problem has a solution and that all people have more or less the same problems and struggles in their lives, things start to change. And the change begins with a simple decision: to take back our time and learn how to live differently. How to Live a Meaningful LifeThe need to make money is for most people a reassuring excuse for not taking the leap to live a meaningful life.
Hidden behind a good job – a warm spot supplying a reasonable income -, people use to build and keep around a sweet comfort zone that makes the compromise bearable. To peacefully resign in being satisfied with less in their lives, many people start to associate success with struggle, risk, dirty things to do, and lack of spirituality. They prefer to be pushed by life circumstances instead of taking control of their lives. And then they start to complain about external unfavorable factors affecting their lives as being another excuse for not making the effort to take responsibility for their lives. But, they don’t realize that letting themselves to be ‘pushed’ means to put themselves at the mercy of other forces which they ultimately cannot control. They don’t realize that their comfort zone can vanish at any time. Humanity’s natural drive toward progress brings crises in our lives. Crises are moments when our comfort zones are seriously shaken together with our beliefs about life. We are forced to find new ways of living and that takes us to the next step in our evolution. Though, there are ways to avoid the unpleasant effects of crises. Simply, by understanding that we have a big power: The power of choice. We can choose our destiny; we are able to decide what we want to do with our lives, how we want to live and what for. That’s why we cannot separate our spiritual life from the way we are making our living. Our brain has the power to envision our future and make decisions about what we want to do. In this way, it anticipates the circumstances of our lives (what we are going to live on the material plan). Our natural gifts guide us toward the best way for us to make a living. Following our passions and learning how to harness our native's talents, we can really succeed to make fortunes. But decisions and natural gifts are not enough to succeed. We also need to improve ourselves, to build skills, to learn, and stop making compromises.
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