The Minimalist Lifestyle: Designing & Living Your Best Life

"Life flirts with me, seduces me. I constantly hear the siren call of life."
-Joy. c Bells

 

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Hello Everyone,

It's another Monday, I'm hoping to have a good run this week. Isn't that what life is all about, Hoping that your dreams come true, Hoping that the designs you plan for your life work out well? It's not so easy to live a perfectly planned or desired life however, I think we can come close. We can define what "A good life" is and then, work towards it. Germany kent would always say this on Tv - "Time is so short that you should not waste it with people who do not share your love of life." With that being said, I will now dive into the topic of today. As usual, I'd be following this week's prompt. I like the topic and I believe it's something everyone can relate to.

From Designing your life, to Living your best life

 

 

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Let's Start From what I think of "Designing your life"

 
I think designing your life comes first from realization. When we discover things are not the way they should be or the fact that continuous living in one direction isn't sustainable. Once we realize that, you can now start as a clear path of what our life looks like. It is well known especially in designing thinking that before one can establish a design, first he or she to think deeply about what it entails. What is the problem you are trying to solve? The goal you are aiming to achieve? Or like interviewers would like to ask where you see yourself in the next five years or the given number?

All these and even more are what pop into my head when I think about the phrase ' designing your life'. Is it about the mapped-out plan or where you are aiming to be in a specific number of years? I must say that starting out in high school and the early bit of my university days, this has been what my life's design has been. Finish school with good grades, get a good job, settle down with kids and start a family, then watch my kids grow. These were the goal and it feel right at first because this is what society and life had built in my subconscious, thereby making me assume it was the right design for my life or as I loved to call it my life's purpose.
But there was still this empty void that still presided deep down inside me. Don't get me wrong or misjudge me, these plans are typically right at the moment but just a huge factor that was put into consideration was my happiness. Were all these really what I wanted or was I just following people's conventional plan for my life?
It took a while I must tell you but I finally recovered that my life design should be mainly centered on my happiness and well-being at every moment. No matter what my plan maybe I should involve myself mainly with being happy with whatever I do.
Then I started to question myself deeply about what I could possibly do and find happiness in doing it. In other words, a career that I won't have to be tapped in the morning to wake up and attend to the business of the day, or reminded that I have work to do, in fact, something I could do from the comfort of my convenience or like my high school teacher would say " a career that you don't have to be reminded every day of your life that it is a job".

It took a while to figure it out or come across it but now I am glad to wait because was worth it. I finally made up my mind to be a Web3 Content Creator on the Hive Platform. You might it is should like an all-serious job but I tell you it is not. It simply entails creating content around what surrounds your everyday life as a human being and you get rewarded for it. This so far has really changed my life in ways that are too numerous to mention if I should begin, it will go way beyond the prompt for this post. So gradually I have begun to surround my life design with being better at what I currently do for a living.

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Next on the agenda

The next question on the prompt says I should talk about things I wish I could eliminate in my life. This got me emotional because all that could come into my head for a moment was the fact that one could die at any moment, in other words, the death factor. This is one thing that has kept me up at night during strange days, pondering on the idea that any day one could no longer be in existence. Honestly, I haven't really bothered myself with worrying about where one goes after death but mainly with the idea that it happens anytime. So if I could eliminate anything is the death fact, removing the pain from grief and loss.

But over time I have come to realize that this might never really happen, so I just had to make up my mind in living my best life. I am not yet there when it comes to living my best work cause I am still a work in progress but I have made up my mind that does what I will do for the rest of my life on earth.

Lastly, it is not a huge brainer in knowing how I got to this point in my life where I have decided to live my best life. After going through a painful loss of a loved one, I knew it was only a matter of time before we live on this earth and all will be left with is what we have done and the legacy we leave behind. So from now when you see me just know in the back of your mind that I am leaving the best version of my life.
 

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