“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.” John Homer Miller
Living for life is simple if you know the simple basics in life; more precisely, if you can just simplify life’s complex problems by knowing how to process your experiences and expectations.
Living for life is simple if you know the simple basics in life; more precisely, if you can just simplify life’s complex problems by knowing how to process your experiences and expectations.
You are where you are in life today because
of the choices you have made to date. Your experiences are simply the outcomes
of the choices you made early on.
The art of living
well requires you to ask many self-probing questions as you continue on your
life journey. Some of these questions may include the following:
Has my life been
simple so far?
Have I been
overwhelmed by its complexity?
Do I have many
expectations in life—of myself and of others, including my spouse, my children,
and my parents?
Life experience is a good teacher. We all
know that we can learn from our experiences, but most of us do not want to
learn it the hard way through failures and misfortunes. Ideally, we can learn
from the experiences of others—which are less painful, to say the least. But
the life of any individual is uniquely his or hers, so what is applicable to
the life of another may not be relevant to yours. In addition, where you are
today is a result of your own choices, and nobody can make those choices for
you. You have made your choices, and now you must learn how to process the experiences and expectations
from those choices.
The happenings in your life are real to you,
but how you process them in your mind creates thoughts about those experiences,
and these thoughts may affect how you are going to live the rest of your life.
How you live your life depends on how you
process your experiences in life, or how your mind thinks about what happens to
you. Processing all those experience requires knowing the basics in life.
The Book of Life and Living (2nd
edition) is a 200-page book that explains what true wisdom is: it is a process
of asking meaningful questions and getting relevant answers from them to
empower your mind to think
differently. After all, life has to do with thinking -- how you think, how
you react to your life experiences, and how you process and internalize them to
become your memories. The brain is a complex organ. The book explains in simple
layman language how the mind works, and how you may weave the fabrics of your
realities acquired from your life experiences encountered.
To get
the Amazon Kindle version of The Book of Life and Living,
click here;
to get the paperback edition, click here.
Stephen
Lau
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by Stephen Lau
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