Life

What is the opposite of arrogance, aggression, vanity, and pride? It’s humility. Humility is the act of being reverential, modest, and politely submissive. It seems like it doesn’t leave you any power, doesn’t it? Well, it’s not true cause humility gives you a lot of power. Aren’t you tired of the desire to be right, to impress, and get ahead? Humility offers you freedom from all those desires. What’s best about it is that losses and frustrations have less impact. So who is a humble person? It’s a person that confidently receives the opportunities to improve, grow, and reject labels that society forces on them. You, too, can lead a humble life, and it is a life that results in compassion, contentment, forgiveness, and patience.

Can you achieve something by doing nothing? Well, it seems so, but not quite so literally. There is a significant concept of Taoism called Wu Wei. It’s Chinese, and it literally translates to “non-doing” or doing nothing. What it stands for is a natural action. That means an action that doesn’t involve excessive effort or struggle. Wu Wei is actually the cultivation of a certain mental state in which your actions are very effortlessly in alignment with what we call the flow of life. So, basically, it’s going with the flow, and it’s characterized by a feeling of great ease when we are spontaneously acting perfectly. It’s when you’re doing the right thing spontaneously and effortlessly, without even trying.

A personal mission statement is as a compass set to a specific location. It is a powerful combination of words that sum you, your goals, and sometimes ambitions up. A personal mission statement is a mission statement designed for you. It is your mantra, your central dogma, and it gives you your identity.

Death is one of the scariest topics for several people. Our culture has learned to sidestep it in conversations. Death is terrifying for several reasons. We do not completely know what awaits us after. We are not sure if there is an afterlife or if blank, nothing waits for us. We have little control over happenings once we are dead. We leave those we love behind and leave several things undone. Dying is even worse. Except for terminally ill people, we generally do not know how fast we are dying. Worse still, the process of dying can be short and sudden without time to prepare for what happens after or very long and painful.

Virtues are the guidelines that provide us with a way to behave with others and our self. We know how to live in this world, what we have in our character and how we live every day with a purpose in this life. Some of them are what we practice already for example discipline, kindness, creativity, trust, gratitude and service.

Human beings develop and grow in certain stages. At every stage, there are some milestones to achieve and challenges to face. For every stage, natural processes take place and unique changes are seen. Here are the basic stages of the human life cycle from birth to death with the indicators of each of the stages.

Some people look and always act as if they know what to do with their life. They are unhesitatingly going through any obstacles, never getting any doubts about the decisions they make, and feel completely fulfilled. What do you do if you are not so lucky to be one of these? What do you do if you are not sure, why you exist and what is your life purpose? Well, here are a few tips about finding it.

Life is pretty bright and joyful in all of its diversity. Its complexity sometimes may lead many individuals to feel a bit lost and struggle to understand what their purpose of life must be. That leads to unnecessary soul-searching, depression, and frustration. Those whose productivity suffers a lot, and they cannot properly concentrate on achieving their goals. So let us determine the central life’s areas.