I started becoming interested in personal development over 40 years ago and I've been involved in teaching it for more than 30 years. After a life of being involved in personal development, there isn't any doubt in my mind what truly makes life worthwhile. I have decided on these 5 things :
- A faith that goes beyond my own small reach of things
- Meaningful Relationships
- Freedom to do the things I want to do
- Work that I enjoy and feel is a contribution to others
- Feeling A1 about my life
A faith that goes past my own tiny width of things:
I find it so incredible that anybody would declare that there is no God. Is a person so easily fooled as to believe that they have every bit of knowledge and can actually declare that based totally on that there's no God?
Considerate from this prospective: say that an individual has gone to school all their life and studied each discipline that was available; what quantity of all of the information would they now have packed in their small head? Go out and pick up a single grain of sand on some sandy beach and reflect on how many grains are left on all of the beaches of all the seas in the entire world and the one grain of sand represents their information and the remainder of the grains represent all of the knowledge they don not yet have. Is it irrational to accept that out there in all that unknown information that there might doubtless be the awareness of God?
- A faith that goes beyond my own small reach of things
- Meaningful Relationships
- Freedom to do the things I want to do
- Work that I enjoy and feel is a contribution to others
- Feeling A1 about my life
A faith that goes past my own tiny width of things:
I find it so incredible that anybody would declare that there is no God. Is a person so easily fooled as to believe that they have every bit of knowledge and can actually declare that based totally on that there's no God?
Considerate from this prospective: say that an individual has gone to school all their life and studied each discipline that was available; what quantity of all of the information would they now have packed in their small head? Go out and pick up a single grain of sand on some sandy beach and reflect on how many grains are left on all of the beaches of all the seas in the entire world and the one grain of sand represents their information and the remainder of the grains represent all of the knowledge they don not yet have. Is it irrational to accept that out there in all that unknown information that there might doubtless be the awareness of God?
For me life has been worthwhile and suggestive because I have faith in and a relationship with an all knowing, all caring, all potent God. It gives rhyme and reason to an otherwise incomprehensible existence with absolutely no purpose. You also can have a relationship with God.
Significant Relationships:
The second thing which has given a purpose for living is relationships: to have loved a gorgeous girl and experienced the lifelong intimacy that is part of the conjugal union; to have known the joy and the love of having my personal kids and watching them grow into adults and becoming caring and giving individuals, taking on the responsibility of raising their family and making their contribution to society; having grandchildren who are lively and who go around making reference to me as papaw; to have pals who would go the last mile with me, who actually care for me as a person and accept me as I'm; all that is what makes life profitable.
Liberty to do the things I'd like to do:
The 3rd thing that makes life worthwhile is freedom: the liberty to live my life the way That I decide with no state telling me where to live, what to work at and dictating my every move. What a privilege to live in a great land like America, the land of the free and the brave; the land where any person has the liberty to search out the things which gives them pleasure and happiness. America where the only limit is the limits we place on ourselves to learn, to earn, to live a life of purpose, to satisfy our every dream.
Work that I enjoy and feel is a contribution to others:
The forth thing that makes life worth living for me is work: that is right, work, working at what gives me joy and purpose. Although making money through doing what I truly adore to do is very gratifying, there is much more, and that's the sensation of making a contribution to others and the inter satisfaction of being needed and appreciated for what I'm in a position to do to help some other person reach their dreams.
Feeling good about my life:
The fifth thing that makes life profitable and really sums it up is feeling A1 about life: awakening in the morning on a pretty fall day as it is now as I write this tract and taking a big breath of the cool morning air and seeing the wonderful thing about autumn all around, from the golden leaves of the sugar maple just outside of the window to the other colors of oaks,red maples, the orange and green and varying shades of colours all around, and being crammed with excitement about the things that lie ahead for this day. So true is that quote, There aren't any gu
Significant Relationships:
The second thing which has given a purpose for living is relationships: to have loved a gorgeous girl and experienced the lifelong intimacy that is part of the conjugal union; to have known the joy and the love of having my personal kids and watching them grow into adults and becoming caring and giving individuals, taking on the responsibility of raising their family and making their contribution to society; having grandchildren who are lively and who go around making reference to me as papaw; to have pals who would go the last mile with me, who actually care for me as a person and accept me as I'm; all that is what makes life profitable.
Liberty to do the things I'd like to do:
The 3rd thing that makes life worthwhile is freedom: the liberty to live my life the way That I decide with no state telling me where to live, what to work at and dictating my every move. What a privilege to live in a great land like America, the land of the free and the brave; the land where any person has the liberty to search out the things which gives them pleasure and happiness. America where the only limit is the limits we place on ourselves to learn, to earn, to live a life of purpose, to satisfy our every dream.
Work that I enjoy and feel is a contribution to others:
The forth thing that makes life worth living for me is work: that is right, work, working at what gives me joy and purpose. Although making money through doing what I truly adore to do is very gratifying, there is much more, and that's the sensation of making a contribution to others and the inter satisfaction of being needed and appreciated for what I'm in a position to do to help some other person reach their dreams.
Feeling good about my life:
The fifth thing that makes life profitable and really sums it up is feeling A1 about life: awakening in the morning on a pretty fall day as it is now as I write this tract and taking a big breath of the cool morning air and seeing the wonderful thing about autumn all around, from the golden leaves of the sugar maple just outside of the window to the other colors of oaks,red maples, the orange and green and varying shades of colours all around, and being crammed with excitement about the things that lie ahead for this day. So true is that quote, There aren't any gu
The 3rd thing that makes life worthwhile is freedom: the liberty to live my life the way That I decide with no state telling me where to live, what to work at and dictating my every move. What a privilege to live in a great land like America, the land of the free and the brave; the land where any person has the liberty to search out the things which gives them pleasure and happiness. America where the only limit is the limits we place on ourselves to learn, to earn, to live a life of purpose, to satisfy our every dream.
Work that I enjoy and feel is a contribution to others:
The forth thing that makes life worth living for me is work: that is right, work, working at what gives me joy and purpose. Although making money through doing what I truly adore to do is very gratifying, there is much more, and that's the sensation of making a contribution to others and the inter satisfaction of being needed and appreciated for what I'm in a position to do to help some other person reach their dreams.
Feeling good about my life:
The fifth thing that makes life profitable and really sums it up is feeling A1 about life: awakening in the morning on a pretty fall day as it is now as I write this tract and taking a big breath of the cool morning air and seeing the wonderful thing about autumn all around, from the golden leaves of the sugar maple just outside of the window to the other colors of oaks,red maples, the orange and green and varying shades of colours all around, and being crammed with excitement about the things that lie ahead for this day. So true is that quote, There aren't any guarantees in life but each day of life is a dear gift . It is up to all of us to determine what our approach will be. We can opt to dwell on the bad and the ugly or we will be able to decide to dwell on the good and the beautiful, and that terribly decision will decide how worthwhile life is.
. Conclusion:
Oh yes, as I pointed out in the beginning, that it has taken a life of personal development to come to a full circle and to recognize what really makes life worth living; too bad that we are not born with this sort of an awareness instead of having to live out almost all of our life just wondering what it is when it is all around us, all of the time.
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Work that I enjoy and feel is a contribution to others:
The forth thing that makes life worth living for me is work: that is right, work, working at what gives me joy and purpose. Although making money through doing what I truly adore to do is very gratifying, there is much more, and that's the sensation of making a contribution to others and the inter satisfaction of being needed and appreciated for what I'm in a position to do to help some other person reach their dreams.
Feeling good about my life:
The fifth thing that makes life profitable and really sums it up is feeling A1 about life: awakening in the morning on a pretty fall day as it is now as I write this tract and taking a big breath of the cool morning air and seeing the wonderful thing about autumn all around, from the golden leaves of the sugar maple just outside of the window to the other colors of oaks,red maples, the orange and green and varying shades of colours all around, and being crammed with excitement about the things that lie ahead for this day. So true is that quote, There aren't any guarantees in life but each day of life is a dear gift . It is up to all of us to determine what our approach will be. We can opt to dwell on the bad and the ugly or we will be able to decide to dwell on the good and the beautiful, and that terribly decision will decide how worthwhile life is.
. Conclusion:
Oh yes, as I pointed out in the beginning, that it has taken a life of personal development to come to a full circle and to recognize what really makes life worth living; too bad that we are not born with this sort of an awareness instead of having to live out almost all of our life just wondering what it is when it is all around us, all of the time.
About the Author:
About the author: Jimmie Burroughs is a motivational speaker and author who has been involved in teaching Christian Personal Development for over 30 years. There could be over 600 articles to help on his website in your personal growth. Be sure to take vantage of the FREE offer to get the eBook The 4 Pillars for Personal Development while available.