The 10 Ways to Live a Great Life

Almighty God has created life for all of us to live with peace, happiness and harmony with each other. But unfortunately, that is not quite the scene which is there in this world. It is because of the realistic nature of the people which arouses different negative feelings like hatred, envy, jealousy, enmity, selfishness, egoism etc. among each other that people are not able to live life with harmony with each other. This is happening due to lack of enough life education to the people. Life is an art, a craft and a science. But unfortunately, today the life science has become a complex science to understand due to the realism prevailing in the society. The need in this situation is to keep life as simple as it can be and make the most productive use of life. My philosophy of life is that we should try out best to live our lives in the best possible way we can live it. This best possible way doesn’t mean materialistic best possible way but it essentially means the best possible qualitative life in terms of human values of life like truth, non-violence, love, unity, brotherhood, co-operation, pity, forgiveness, selflessness, spirituality etc. If we really adhere to this principle, then we can surely live a high quality life. This is the basic need in order to live a great life. Furthermore, there are certain other essentialities which need to be followed in order to live a truly great life. They are as follows: 1. Live life in a natural way: Let life move on in a natural way. Don’t interfere with the natural course of life unless and until it is not moving on properly. The natural way of living the life is only the best possible way of living the life. Don’t use your artificial mentality to interfere with your life and spoil it. When life is lived in a natural way, then only it can be lived in the best possible way. 2. Follow the laws of nature: It is necessary to follow the laws of nature in order to live a great life. The laws of nature related with the time-table, eating habits, clothing habits, housing habits, life style etc. need to be followed in order to live a great life. Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. This famous quote by Benjamin Franklin is one example of it as regard to the time-table. Eating natural and hygienic foods, dressing in simple and neat clothes, keeping house clean, clear and blissful, following a peaceful, interesting and healthy life style are some other examples of following the laws of nature. 3. Follow the principles of life: It is necessary to follow the principles of human life. As said above it is necessary to follow the human values like truth, selflessness, brotherhood, co-operation, unity, pity, forgiveness, non-violence, love, harmony etc. in life in order to live a right life based on human principles. One should keep away from the wrong principles like hatred, enmity, envy, violence, selfishness, lies etc. in order to keep life going on the right track. By living life like this, one can build high moral standards of life for himself and get reputation among everyone in the society. 4. Understand the value of time: Life has a limited time span for everyone. We need to understand the value of invaluable time and make the most productive use of this limited time span. There are lots of activities to be done in our lives and there is too little time in our hands to do all of the tasks. Thus, first of all, we need to make sure that we make the most productive use of the time in our hands and secondly we need to optimize the types of activities we select to do in our lives. Thirdly, we need to do the activities in the best possible way so that we get the maximum result out of it. It is in this way only that we can make the most productive use of the time available to us. 5. Value life more than money: Life itself should be the most important factor for us in life. Life in the sense that our living in our day to day life. We should try to make our everyday productive, fun and worth living in order to enjoy life to the fullest. Life should be kept serious at work and enjoyable with family and society. After all, we deserve to enjoy happiness for all our hard work done at work. We need to understand the value of life and try to spread happiness among others to the maximum possible extent. The more happiness we will spread among people, the more we will get in return from them. This way, life can be made greatly happy and worth living. 6. Value money but keep it secondary: Money is important in life to maintain our living and to increase our standard of living. One needs to understand the importance of money in life and make all the best possible efforts to earn maximum possible money in life. But at the same time, one needs to understand that money, even though important, is a secondary thing in life. Life itself meaning our family, relatives and society are much more important than money. Thus, that should always be our first priority than money. One can live life with less money but it is very difficult to live life without any of our family members or near and dear ones. Thus, one should most definitely try to earn the maximum possible money in life but not at the cost of anyone else. 7. Respect elders and senior citizens: Respect your parents, elders and senior citizens in the society. They are like the pillars of the monument of the society. Even though, this may sound to be not that important a point but it is highly important to follow it in order to build trust and self-confidence in the society. When one respects elders, he is automatically liked, advised and guided by them in order to move ahead in his life. This may prove to be valuable for a person to achieve success in his life. If not anything else, one will surely receive blessings and kind words of appreciation from the elders which will prove beneficial and helpful for a person to move ahead in his life. 8. Develop spirituality and a religious attitude: It is necessary to develop spirituality and a religious attitude in life for spiritual upliftment and religious advancement in life. It should come from within or through inspiration or it may come through any other way but it is necessary to cultivate these divine qualities in life and spread it in our personality in order to blossom the tree of our life and get returns of fruits in the form of heavenly blessings. Spiritual practices if followed truly throughout the life, then it can lead us to heaven and getting salvation. If not anything else, we need to understand that life is a gift from God. We need to develop spirituality and follow religious practices in order to worship God, the giver of life. 9. Have time for leisure activities: Life is not just about being serious all the time and making the most of each and every moment. One needs to give some time for leisure activities and relaxation in life. It can be done by activities like watching television, movies, playing sports, surfing, travelling etc. But such activities are needed once in a while in order to provide change, peace and enjoyment in life. It is also advisable to develop good hobbies and interests in life which can develop the personality of a person and induce creativity and enjoyment in life. 10. Devote time for social service: It is highly necessary to devote time for social service in life. Most people ignore this aspect but it is the most important aspect which needs to be followed in life. Our world is still overall an underdeveloped world to a large extent thriving with poverty, hunger, over-population, diseases, corruption, exploitation, terrorism, natural calamities etc. One should rise to the challenge of removing these problems from the society for the welfare of the society. “Arise, awake and stop not till your goal is reached” is really the motto which needs to be followed in order to remove these social and political evils from the society. There is this much highly important need to do social service activities in order to remove these evils for the welfare of the society. Thus, one should necessarily and surely devote time for social service activities on a regular basis for the welfare of the society. This will give him a sense of satisfaction as having done something for the betterment of the society. It will also give him social respect and reputation in the society. Thus, it will surely help a person to live a great life and will also help in contributing for the betterment of the society. A person should try to follow the above 10 guidelines in order to live a better life. If a person follows the above guidelines truly and honestly in his life, then he is surely going to be able to live a great life. That’s my promise! Thus, start living your lives by following the above guidelines right from today. By following these guidelines, you can enhance your personality to a great extent, live a truly great life and contribute for creating a wonderful, better and greater world.