(1) Reduce Your Attachment To Possessions
A lot of people suffer pain in life when they get too attached to their material possessions. Then suddenly when they lose them life becomes unbearable. You can lose your car, house, gadget or any other possession that you designate as your source of happiness. This is one advice some of the world’s greatest spiritual leaders have heeded, Mahatma Gandhi had less than 10 possessions on his death - including a watch, pair of spectacles, sandals and an eating bowl. Become a person of minimal needs and you’ll become much content. There is no joy in getting more, more and more. Minimalism in life has been proven time and time again to be one of the surest ways to finding lasting happiness in life.
(2) Trade Your Money To Have Amazing Life Experiences
It’s a topsy-turvy world my friend, where you can be the world richest and the next minute the stock market crashes and you are back to base camp. But you can counter the effect of losing it all by “buying” amazing experiences. Money grows wings and flies away but experiences, never! Go on a trip, tour the world, have an amazing vacation. Those experiences will remain with you for life.
(3) Develop An Endless Curiosity About The World
Depression and boredom are a fact of life even when you have the mint. But a man with a lot of curiosity could never get bored. You’ll always be in constant search, always trying to explore the world. Become an explorer, see the world as your jungle, try new things, go on a quest and become genuinely interested in your environment. Get out of your comfort zone and experience something new.
(4) Take Care Of Your Body
The body is like a modern day automobile, requiring meticulous maintenance for optimum performance. You have to put the right oil, gas, and occasionally fill up the carburetor with water. If you don’t do this, one day that baby will go haywire when you least expect (maybe in some dark remote and lonely road). So will your body. If you don’t exercise, eat proper diet, watch your habits one day you’ll break down. Realize that some of the habits you keep today will either haunt you or be a blessing in old age.
(5) Exercise Your Mind Everyday
Wake up every day and find something to memorize, a quote, poetry, sayings and philosophies. This will stretch your brains elasticity, keep it sharp and leave you with an inexorable library of quotes you can summon whenever you have to make a speech or say anything else. Plant a tree before you ever need one. Recently, there has been an explosion in brain training and fitness activities. Why not take advantage of them? A research has revealed a fit mind could help combat some of the age-related illnesses that erode the minds elasticity.
(6) Live In The Present Not Your Past.
The future is now. There’s a lot of wisdom in that statement. Your past is come and gone and there’s absolutely nothing you can do to change it. But you have today – which to me is your blessing. It holds the promise of a do-over of yesterday regrets. And don’t drive yourself nuts worrying about “tomorrow” – it’s a blank check. Why not live in the present. Your present can become your tomorrow, and your tomorrow, your yesterday. Today is all that matters. Seize this moment!
(7) Smile A Lot More
Smile. It increases your face value. Dolly Parton
The world and things around would try to give you 101 reasons why it’s just wrong to want to smile. But don’t. Keep smiling no matter what. Besides helping you cultivate a positive attitude to life, smiling makes you agreeable and likeable to people. Being always moody has just the opposite effect – it would scare off your friends. Smile, smile and keep smiling. Don’t stop until I say so.
(8) Watch The News Less
Jim, if you've been following the news like I have for the past few months, you’ll have 1000 reasons to cry more, whine more, laugh less and possibly have a heart attack. Today, 5 people wounded in terrible Island, 10 injured in no-mans-land, another 30 hospitalized in No-where’s-ville. They update you with tragedies which can lead to high blood pressure, opening the door to a heart attack. Ditch the news. Ignorance is bliss!!!
(9) Don’t Take Life Too Seriously
My life has been one great big joke. A dance that’s walked, A song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke When I think about myself. Maya Angelou
Like Maya, I also laugh at my own existence. Is like a joke. Robert Frost, the poet once said “Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.” Life isn’t some “business” to be had and be over with – if it were that way, it wouldn't be fun. You have to revel in the mystery of your own existence, be amused by your mistakes and failures and have amazing takeaways. Find a way to take delight in the “little things of life”. Don’t read too much meaning into every event in your life, the bad ones especially. The fault never always lies with you. Sometimes in life, things just happen. Laugh it off!
(10) Offer Help To Someone
I shall pass this way but once; any good that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being; let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. Etienne de Grellet
Be nice to people on your way up, because you’ll meet them on your way down. – Wilson Mizner.
You heard the man, right? Be someone’s knight in shining amour. Offer someone in need genuine help. What goes around they say comes around. Who knows, it might be this same person who runs to you in your distress. Be a life saver. I was touched by the story of a millionaire who had offered to pay for a poor girl’s eye operation on Quora – that’s class if you ask me!
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