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How to Live a Fulfilled Life
For a long time I have encourage and inspired readers of my motivational books, tracts and articles to follow their heart’s desires, be true to their dreams and let passion empower their lives. It is quite interesting to hear many inspiring and incredible result from individual that have honour their hearts desires and subsequently found happiness and success in their chosen profession. What will you do if you have a dream of becoming successful in life but you are not in a position to accomplish it? Either due to financial constrains or other pressures and obligations, you dream is relegated to a future time, and your current situation doesn’t look anything like your heart’s desire or dream. Here are your choices:
1. Act with courage as if your dream is already real, no matter your current situation: - Every conscious man on earth has a dream of succeeding in life. Success is determined by your personal desire, passion and tenacity of purpose. Indeed everybody needs courage to succeed in any career, profession or vocation. Without courage success is a mirage. Nothing good comes easy. So, we need to be courageous devoted and determined in whatever we do or strive for. "Courage - unless a man has that virtue he has no security for preserving any other," E. Fremont said. Failure in life is mainly because of our inability to approach our beautiful ideas and visions with strong courage. The Bible says, "Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. For who so findeth me, findeth life and shall obtain favour from the Lord." (Proverbs8: 34-35). Thus a man of courage is an unconventional person. Yes, it is difficult for men to wait patiently upon the Lord in times of tribulation. We need wisdom and courage and serenity to understand the word of God, because riches and honours are from Him. The fear of the Lord makes us abhor sloth, laziness, pride, arrogance, selfishness and wickedness in our lives. We should always remember to trust in the Lord with all our heart in whatever situation we find ourselves. God is going to reward us, the faithful, more abundantly. We need courage to face the realities of life. Many have failed to achieve their sweet dreams because they lack the courage and wisdom about how to actualize their dreams.
2. Do what you have to do in the meantime, but keep your vision alive in you mind and heart that it will sustains you spiritually: If you choose to succeed in life, everything else you do exist in service toward that goal you have set for yourself. As an aspiring musician, your part time job as a cleaner is a vehicle toward buying a guitar. Then, you speak, think, speak and practice music as much as you can when you are not doing your cleaning job. The quality of your life depends less on what you are doing with your body, and more on what you are doing with your time and spirit. Keep your soul nourished and everything else will fall into place. As Eleanor Roosevelt rightly noted, "The future belong to those who believe in the beauty of their dream."
3. Honestly identify your talent, take a leap of faith and act on it: - Some who do this succeed gloriously and consider their leap the best moment of their life. Others do not ultimately live to the vision they set out for, but create a lifestyle more rewarding than the one they left. Others return to a position similar to their original one. Be truly honest with yourself. Recognize your weak points and talents. Have the courage and daring to face the challenges of life because of fear. But most fears are just negative visualization, and changing that vision to a positive one may be all you need to take steps toward living the life you have always dreamed of.
4. Make change in your present situation: - If you cann’t change anything about your present job, you can bring desired qualities of your dream into your situation. If you want to be a successful motivational speaker, you don’t need to stand on a stage to speak. You could start by writing inspirational articles for people in the hospitals and you will be amaze on the number of lives you will inspire and change within a short time.
5. Show love, compassion and appreciate others: - With every good things you do, you are sowing a seed through the harvest you may not see, your positive attitude towards others will grow into something that nurtures and thrive. Calling a friend who is sick will brighten his/her day.A stranger you help today may save someone’s life tomorrow. Your generosity towards someone in need may impact that person’s children and future generation to come.
Prince Ben Mohammed is a trained accountant, author and one of the most powerful motivational speakers your audience is likely to experience. He uses simple examples, funny stories and a transformational style of writing to inspire people of all strata of life to take responsibilities, to overcome obstacles and achieve success. He lives a purpose driven life graced with love, service to God and humanity. He is the President of Prince Foundation International; Publisher, Success Is Now Readers Digest; Speaker, Success Is Now Summit; and author of other international bestsellers, including:Success Is Now! Proven Steps That Will Change Your Life.; The Ultimate Revenge; and The Reality Of Man;andtheseindispensable works are acclaimed for helping people make positive and fulfilling changes in their lives with amazing grace What can assure living a long healthy life
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The 5 Timeless Principles Of Living a Fulfilled Life
"The important question is not what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount." - JOSEPH ADDISON
We are all in pursuit of happiness. In some shape or form we are constantly moving towards what we believe will make us happy, either in the short or in the long term. You might say that we are designed for happiness and since the beginning of time human beings devised countless ways and means of creating happiness. For the majority of us, happiness comes in the form of what we call success; by achieving certain 'things' that we believe will make us happy.
We live in a culture where the trappings of success is running rampant. Ironically we can see the so-called icons of our time, who appears to have everything, dealing with immense inner struggles. We tend to pursue the symbols of success whereas what we really crave for is that inner feeling of being a successful human being. Aristotle noted that true success lies not in possessing things, but in the knowing that you deserve it. This knowing is a deep inner conviction that is the cornerstone of living a truly happy and fulfilled life.
When you are fulfilled your life is one of the deepest joy because you feel like your life is fully worth living and that you are fulfilling a greater purpose. You feel that you are realizing the reason why you came here.
With the pursuit of the symbols of success we tend to get trapped by the belief that we will be happy in some future time 'when' I have the perfect job or the money, or the relationship or the health. To be truly happy we need to detach ourselves from events and circumstances and learn to live our lives on purpose - and to find happiness within. This can be easier said than done, especially when you are trapped in a relationship you hate, or a job you hate or with a body you hate.
We can look at this in 4 categories of experience and many of us move in and out of them throughout our lifetime. An awareness of these categories can help us to come to the realization that we are never stuck and that there's always another way.
The first category is when you Do What You Hate:
On a deep level we all know what we love and what we hate. Yet, so many people are stuck in careers that they hate or stay in relationships with people they will never be in harmony with. In this category, you know that you hate it, but still you do it and often you have 'good reasons' to do so. The truth is that as long as you are in this category you will never be happy because you know that what you are doing is something you hate.
The second category is to Hate What You Do:
You might be doing something you quite like, but somehow that are things you don't like about it and consequently you hate doing it. The problem is not with what you are doing, but in the actual doing. You might be in a relationship with someone you love, but still you hate it. You might be doing something you love(ed) but you hate doing it.
The third category is to Love What You Do:
We've all met people in some of the worse jobs ever who seem to always be happy. These are people who have learned a secret of life which is to love what you do, regardless of what you are doing.
The fourth category is to Do What You Love:
Although we all know what we hate, somehow it seems much harder to find what we love to do. Doing what you love is probably the greatest gift you can give to yourself and one that will reward you with life's deepest joy which is true fulfillment.
We all find ourselves in one or more of these categories in different areas of our lives and we are constantly moving in and our of these categories as our experience of life shifts. It's very useful to analyze your life according to these four categories as it can help you to get on the life path called fulfillment. True fulfillment can only come from a life path where you love what you do, and do what you love. Until and unless you reach this point you will never live life at the highest level.
Here are the 5 timeless principles of living a fulfilled life:
1. Realize that you are unique and special and that you have a higher purpose in life. You are not an accident. You are here for a reason and part of your mission is to find out why you are here.
2. Find your bliss - find what you love in life and do it. Do it as often as possible and be kind to yourself by doing that which brings you inner joy.
3. Love what you do - doing what you love is only one half of the story. You still have to love what you do and this is an attitude. Even if you are doing something you hate, you can still love doing it and once you do this you start to shift the focus of your life and more of what you do love will start showing up.
4. Keep growing and expanding - without continual growth and the expansion of yourself you will soon get bored and start 'hating what you do'. Personal growth is an essential ingredient in being fulfilled.
5. Be inner directive - don't allow others to prescribe your happiness for you. Listen to that still small voice within that only you can hear. Ultimately you are the only one that can make yourself happy.
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