Tips for Living a Good Life

Different people define living a good life differently. But no matter how this phrase means to you, it all sums up to living with the little pleasures that can make you happy, performing kind deeds, and striving to achieve your personal and career goals. All these factors and more contribute to the level of happiness and accomplishment that can make you feel fulfilled and achieve a good and happy life.

Certainly, all people go through failures in one way or another in life. Nobody is perfect in this world, so
when this happens, does it mean that you will stop there? Of course not. One has to overcome this imperfection in order to become successful.

Living the good life means different things to different people. There is, however, a slightly ambiguous, mutual understanding. “The good life” is the life that you would like to live broken down to its most basic form. It deals with the simple pleasures that make you happy, the compassionate deeds you perform, the personal goals you strive to achieve, the relationships you nurture and the legacy you leave behind. Sincere personal fulfillment is generally the collective end result.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. Hereunder are some practical tips for good living.

1. Appreciate Life’s Simple Pleasures – The best things in life are free. From a quiet lakeside sunset to sleeping in on a rainy day, life’s greatest simple pleasures can only be purchased with mindful awareness.
2. Slow Down – Urgency and haste instantly diminish accuracy, awareness and happiness. There is a big difference between getting things done and getting things done effectively.
3. Exercise Your 5 Senses – Sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. Each provides a gateway to rewarding personal experiences.
4. Be Self Sufficient – Freedom is the greatest gift. Self sufficiency is the greatest freedom.
5.Talk to Strangers – Quite simply, this is how you will meet great people.
6. Use What You Have – Success is not the byproduct of limitless resources. Success happens when you stretch the limits of the available resources.
7. Assist Others – What goes around comes around.
8.Be Clear on Your Goals – You will never get where you want to go if you don’t know what you want.
9. Make a Decision – Indecision is the leading cause of missed opportunity and wasted time.
10.Practice General Time Management – Trying to achieve your goals without doing a little time planning is like sailing the open ocean without a compass and map.
11. Educate Yourself on the Facts – Ignorance is only bliss in a vacuum. In the real world you will eventually be confronted with the facts, and by then it may`be too late. Be aware of reality, get your facts straight and make educated decisions.
12.Think More, Talk Less – The more you think and the less you talk, the more you will learn and the less you will miss.
13. Keep Your Promises – Not doing so guarantees loneliness and failure.
14. Always Find the Positive Lesson – Every negative outcome holds a positive lesson. Finding it is the key to greatness.
15. Foster and Nurture Relationships – A happy, fulfilling life is a life shared with family and friends.

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About Lucila Oblena

A native of Cavinti, Lucila C. Oblena spent all her working years as an educator, beginning as a classroom teacher in 1944, then a Guidance Counselor and retired as a school Principal. She is also the founder of CLOTA (Cavinti Laguna Overseas Teachers Association). She is the Editor of Tipakan.com (Cavinti Diaspora).