Fifty Steps of Life
Please read this article in its entirety. You don’t have to agree with everything said below. You may find that some of the thing agreeable and some are thought provoking.
Yes, you can disagree with it. But before you do, think about it and try it out in your life, see if it works for you and makes your life easier, simpler, better. See if make you happier than before. Then decide if you want to keep it in your life or just move on the way you want to live.
If it doesn’t then throw it out.
- First of all, have a profound and unshakable faith in the God in all situations.
- Be religious. Have a proud of your religion you practice but have respect for all other religions.
- Keep moving even though it is slow. Slow progress is much better than no progress.
- Move in the right direction. Setting direction to your movement is better than lost in nowhere.
- Set the determination. It doesn’t matter how skillful you are but it is of no help if you’re not determined to do the things.
- Have a discipline. Even big powerful army will fail if it doesn’t have consistent discipline in the field.
- Have a dedication. No dedication in your work can take you nowhere. You have to give your 100% dedication to have successful results. Put your heart into it.
- Learn from mistakes. No one is perfect and no one can do all the things perfectly each and every time. So learning from your mistakes and keep improving should be the motto of your work.
- Have a patience. The Patience is one of the required ingredients, having that will give you more time to listen, learn, understand and give you consistent peace.
- Try to avoid using unnecessary excuses in daily living for your failures and for not able to do the things. Accept the situation rather than find the excuses.
- Get better with time management. More you are better with using your 24 hours a day efficiently, more you will have a good time to achieve your goals.
- Give quality time for your family and stand by your families in both their good and bad times, in their ups and down.
- Always value and be respectful to your parents and elders. That is the most important thing you can do because your kids learn from you just by watching your care/love towards your parents. What goes around, comes around, isn’t it?
- Be slow to anger. Anger make everything bad. So think of consequence before you get angry.
- Be honest. Without honesty, you can not win trust from anything.
- Remain simple. Real simplicity will save lots of things in life. Just being showman is all outer shell of cosmetic which after sometime falls off anyway.
- Remain real. Being real bring trust in any relations.
- Intentionally or unintentionally don’t hurt anyone in any form. Hurting someone gives deep wound.
- Stay healthy. Staying healthy bring both physical and emotional fitness.
- Always have compassion/kindness in mind while taking/making your decisions.
- Be a good listener. Giving your full attention to the subject while listening will bring knowledge, understanding, clarity.
- Be spiritual. Practicing spirituality will make any person and real human being.
- Donate your money for good cause and for the welfare of humanity.
- Don’t be cruel to any Animal or human being.
- Grow your money. Everyone wants their money to grow but growing it ethically is most important than growing it by doing all bad things.
- Keep your mental diet good. What goes inside your mind then comes out of your mind when situation squeezes you.
- Eat healthily. You are what you eat.
- Dress decently. Dress yourself right and decent, according to the situation will have a good impression on others.
- Don’t open your mouth and speak-up if you don’t know the situation very well. But you can ask right questions to develop understanding of it.
- Give others a chance to justify which gives him opportunity to prove innocent in any conflict situation or misunderstanding.
- Don’t argue but debate.
- Keep your knowledge up to date.
- Walk your own good talk.
- Set a good example for your family, friends, and peers.
- Be a good citizen. Obey all law and order of the country you live in.
- Be loyal. Maintaining the loyalty towards your family, jobs, and country is the prime responsibility.
- Save money. Developing the practice of saving money earlier in the life will give a good return. You need to save for your good time and bad time as well.
- Don’t do anything too much. The obsession of anything is a root of a future problem.
- Don’t be greedy. The profound desire of too much money or greed of anything will make you blind from another good thing around it. Perhaps will sometimes create temptation of unethical desire to fulfill your greed.
- Say “No” to dirty politics. Don’t be part of dirty politics and don’t do dirty politics.
- Be Helpful. Providing help of any kind and in any form is best the vibes you can create.
- Smile, please. Often times just simple smile can reduce tension in any relationship. The smile is the one of the best curve you have on your look.
- Be mindful of the natural ecosystem. Protecting natural resources are everyone’s job.
- Do the things with love. If you can’t do big and great things, do small things with good intentions and great love. What goes around comes around.
- Forgive. Believe it or not forgiving is the greater act of kindness. Forgive and then forget; both are needed in keeping the friendship/relationship going.
- Take your problems or failures as challenges. It will give you strength to keep you going.
- Keep doing something new. It will refresh you with new challenges and give you more energy. Believe in what you doing.
- Don’t hurry. There are so many things in life you will not understand in first place until it happens to you, so keep that in mind before making your opinion too early in its premature condition.
- Learn to communicate. You can explain anything when you have a good communication skill to target your audience.
- In life, all the good and great things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.