Create a Life, Not As Lifestyle

To be able to just live, we may not need to bother looking for the opportunity to think or how to improve the quality and benefit ourselves. However, as the most special thing of being God's creation YME, we are obliged to obtain a meaningful life. We must strive for everything. A wise proverb says, "Find a meaningful need and fill it better than anyone else. - Kejarlah something meaningful, and use every opportunity that there are better than anyone. "

There are several steps to make our lives become more meaningful. The first step is to increase the willingness to learn. Humans have a remarkable mind, then use your mind to create the learning progress-progress in life. We can learn from many things, learn them is to experience life, failure, everyday events, people and so forth. Then increase and hold a willingness to learn.

The second step of our lives that means more are trying to do something that is closer to the dream that desirable. Work harder, more active or productive. This step is very effective in increasing the likelihood of getting the money, property or things of value for people.

One thing that should be the guidelines that hard work is not merely pursuing 5 P, the power (authority), position (position), pleasure (joy), prestige (authority) and Prosperity (wealth). Every business that is only oriented to five things, indeed, guarantee the success, or even result in overflow
ruah, but does not guarantee a satisfying end. Examples are a fact miliarder about eight people in the United States gather at the Edge Water Beach Hotel in Chicago, Illionis in 1923. They were very successful, but the tragic fate 25 years later.

One of them is Charles Schwab, CEO of steel company famous at that time, the Bethlehem Steel. But Charles Schwab to total ruin. So he is forced to pay for the debt of his life for 5 years before death. The second is Richard Whitney, President New York Stock Exchange. But this man was to spend the rest of his life dipenjara Sing Sing. Third person is Jesse Livermore, the king of stock-"The Great Bear" on Wall Street. But Jesse dead suicide.

Four people to be "The Match King", Ivar Krueger, CEO of the company in copyright, which is also dead suicide. So also with the Leon Fraser, Chairman of the Bank of International Settlement, he was dead suicide. The sixth is Hupson Howard, CEO of the largest gas company in North America. But he was ill treated in the soul and mental hospital
until the end of his life. Arthur Cutton previous owner was the largest flour mills in the world, but he died in another nation. Meanwhile, Albert Fall, the time that he is a member of a presidential cabinet
United States. However, he died at home in Texas when just out of prison.

In this world not a few people that are very successful, but death in recent years their lives. Their lives as if it does not mean that even if the previous is very rich. Best efforts can produce big success, but it does not mean the end of a life insurance as a man full of meaning.

Therefore the next step that we need to do is compensate with hard work good. An author in the 20th century-an berkebangsaan France, André Gide, that defines the good as follows; "True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others. --
Goodness is the ability to feel pain and happiness of others. "

Hard work is offset with the good spirit that will generate higher to get more than what is needed. It was pushed by the desire to be able to share happiness with others. In the end good is a positive spirit towards life, motivation, and progress
attitudes and the economy. James Allen, author the book entitled As a Man Thinketh says, "thoughts and good deeds do not bring the results that may be bad, bad thoughts and deeds do not
may bring good results. "

With study, work hard and do good then we will be able to create life that much more meaningful. The steps described above, as evidenced also very effective to make a positive impression of ourselves is not easy to forget people. I believe that we still have a lot of opportunity and potential to get anywhere in life is precious, and whatever we work.

Source: Make A Life, Not Merely A Living - Create a Life, Not As Life by Andrew Ho.