Should i enjoy life

Everything you have and need is right here. Right now. One of the most popular and delusive hoaxes of all time is that life could be predictable. Life is not predictable. The unexpected is the key ingredient here.

Trying to eliminate the unexpected in your life, making your path as safe as you can, will be the only sure proof way to die of boredom. I used to fight against the unexpected. Especially while I had my business.

Seemed the most reasonable way to manage a business. Eliminate all the possible bad outcomes and wait for the good ones to manifest.

Apparently, the only way to enjoy a steady and healthy growth for my business was to embrace the unexpected and take advantage of it in every way I can. Being prepared when the unpredictable happens is something completely different than rejecting it. So much better to be hit by a wave, and enjoy it, rather than pretend the sea is still. What goes up, must come down.

Every beginning has an end. And I find as much thrill and joy of life in a healthy ending as I find in a genuine beginning. The purpose have been fulfilled. Yes, pain is unavoidable, but suffering is optional. Most of the time, though, I find out endings are not painful at all. People try to make things last for unbelievably long periods of time.

What a waste of resources. Time allows us to exist, how can you think to beat something that allows you to be. For instance, people are struggling to make their relationships last longer. Longer than what? Enjoy the ending and let go. Making something last more than its original intention will just hurt everybody. Enjoy the end and welcome a new beginning. Like this blog post. Time for you to start something new. Hi dragos, i would like to share with you that i have recently been a great fan of begginings, i spent my life being frustrated about each and every ending that passed.

I just discovered your blog and i will continue visiting it in the future. Past few posts are just a little out of track! Very timely post for me. Thank you for your insight. Beginnings are always exciting.

And easy to forget that something as simple as a cup of coffee is our creating and I create a lot of those each day, lol. When you look at ending in that light, they can be very beautiful. Hi Dragos, this was an excellent article. Well done and I agree with almost all of it. The sections on creating value, enjoying value, the unexpected, and the ending were particularly good. Great jobQ. Should You Trust Your Intuition? Awesome telling of things to be mindful. Our lives are often a cycle, and we neglect to come back to mindsets we need in life, to find balance.

Fantastic message as always Dragos. You always know how to put a smile on my face. Mindfulness is key to enjoying life, and we always could use a reminder. What a great way to start a Monday! Thanks for this. We all should be enjoying life. Photo of the Week: Tuk-tuk? Beginnings sure do lead to creation of something, like that coffee example you bring up, and the beginnings are the part where we have the most energy.

We usually let that energy subside after a while, but this is not a requirement. Creating and sharing value is something I sure just take as normal, but am glad that it occurs all the time.

Other people create things, and sometimes it is very doable to team up with them or interact with them in some way regarding their creation.

This is where you feel like you are one of the few that they are supposed to be linking up with, like a drummer with a new drum pattern that meets a guitarist who likes it, or an accountant who meets a computer programmer that has an idea to improve their accounting system.

Beating time sure is hard. Thanks for putting this out there. Thanks for commenting, Armen. I can really see your point about people working together and sharing value. Another problem is that power, prestige, money, and security are all measurable commodities another example of the numbers game controlling your life. If we could live forever, pursuing those objectives would certainly make sense. But how logical do they seem against the backdrop of a finite life?

The pursuit of money metrics as a measure of success in life can make us blind to the times, people, and experiences that are happening all around us right now. And it? Perhaps you?

A boat docked in a tiny Mexican village. An American tourist complimented the Mexican fisherman on the quality of his catch. How long did it take you to get those??

The Mexican explained that his small catch was quite enough to meet his needs and feed his family. I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, and take a siesta with my wife. In the evening, I go into the village to see my friends, have a few drinks, play the guitar and sing a few songs. I have a full life.? The American interrupted. You should start by fishing longer every day.

You can then sell the extra fish you catch. With the extra revenue, you can buy a bigger boat.? With the extra money the bigger boat will bring, you can buy a second boat and then a third boat, and then more until you have an entire fleet of trawlers.

Instead of selling your fish to a middle man, you can then negotiate directly with the processing plants. Pretty soon you could open your own plant. From there you could direct your whole enterprise.? Well, my friend,? When your business gets really big, you can start selling stocks and make millions!?

After that you? The American tourist was leading the Mexican fisherman right back to the life he had here and now. Blinded by his cultural obsession with money and success, the American couldn? The story cuts off there, but we can assume that the fisherman wisely chose to ignore the American?

I want to focus on retirement planning in particular, since it? This is likely due to the aging of the Baby Boom generation, in combination with a record — and seemingly unstoppable — stock market.

What ever the cause, it deserves special examination. A lot of people choose to use what are generally regarded as the best years of their lives to prepare for retirement, a time in life when all their cares will disappear and they? I realize that this flies in the face of conventional thinking, but I think that the uncertainties of life require that we prepare for different outcomes. When it comes to retirement, we?

We do that by making certain assumptions, generally those that are favorable to the desired outcome of a comfortable retirement. None of us can do that — and that?

We can? In preparing for retirement, what we? That means that we? But there is a lot that will be happening between now and the time that you formally retire, events that could require a lot of money, and be at least as important as retirement. Preparing for retirement is something of Catch Think about it — how much money will ever be enough to give you the kind of retirement that you want? Do we mean the series of events that begins with birth and ends with death and gets all fiddly in the middle?

Or is it more helpful to go back to the earliest specks of living matter? Why did those little ignitions keep happening? And why did they start to happen more and more, lasting for longer and adding bits on? They had to answer questions about existence based on what they saw in front of them. Unlike people in most other cultures and at most other moments in history, they chose not to turn to supernatural explanations but to try to understand the world in physical terms.

Empedocles is credited with presaging quantum physics, with its notion of particles affected by the forces of attraction and repulsion. Although even the ancient physicists could see that, in a lot of ways, he was wrong. Not to mention actually quite religious. He was also one of the last philosophers to put down his ideas in verse, and overall his vision of the cosmos is fantastically poetic: once upon a time there was just a big ball of emulsified Love, which then became fractured by Strife.

In other words, something like big bang theory.