Life is short:
You’ll often hear people talk about the importance of money in terms of living life in the modern age.
Let’s be honest, it’s difficult to live without money today, is it not? Certainly, it’s up there with oxygen and water for sustaining life.
Nevertheless, we must also remember that life is short. And sadly for some people, it’s very short indeed.
So, while money’s important, it’s not an ideal means for measuring success, is it? Not real success in life anyway.
Misplaced priorities:
In the modern age, it’s easy to become obsessed with money.
However, the accumulation of money for its own sake should never be the underlying motive that drives us, surely? That can only lead to a life of misplaced priorities, I think.
If your approach to life includes an obsession with money, then you’ll be doomed to disappointment, and I think you’ll realise that eventually.
One day you’ll look back and wish you’d spent a bit more time with family, friends, and loved ones, of that I’m quite sure.
So what would be an ideal measure of success?
A measure of success:
For me, a better measure of success is whether we’re feeling fulfilled by what we’re doing.
If our work is something we’d do as a hobby if we couldn’t get paid for it then that’s a better way of gauging success. As the legendary investor, Warren Buffett once said, “Look for a job that you’d take if you didn’t need a job.”
A sense of purpose and work that is fulfilling and truly absorbing is a much less stressful way of living.
Enjoy what you do:
Enjoy what you do and do what you enjoy, if you possibly can.
If you enjoy what you do, you’ll do it well, and the money will follow anyway. If you do your work exceptionally well, then people will notice. And once you get noticed, you’re on your way to genuine success.
Never be driven by money alone.
Never accept a job simply because it’s well paid.
It’s nice to have a good salary, of course.
However, once you get used to the money, you still have to spend a third of your life doing the work for which you’re being paid well.
And doing work you don’t enjoy is a significant price to pay in terms of your emotions, stress levels, and the potential impact it will have on your health.
Time is precious:
If life’s short, then our time is very precious, surely?
What’s the point of working every hour you’ve got just to become rich, only to die suddenly of a heart attack having had no time to enjoy the fruits of your labour?
What a waste that would be. Being the richest man or woman in the graveyard is hardly a title worth having, is it?
So my underlying message to you today, dear reader, is to find work you enjoy doing and to make sure you leave a little time to enjoy life too. A little ‘me time‘ is essential for everyone.
No one’s life is perfect:
Don’t forget that everyone faces challenges, occasionally. No one’s life is perfect. We all have problems.
Inevitably, your life will have its ups and downs. However, make sure there are more ups than downs in your life, as far as you are able.
Take some time to smell the roses and have a laugh.
As the old Music Hall song used to say; “enjoy yourself, it’s later than you think.”
You wouldn’t want to live forever, but you should be living your life to the fullest today.
Life really is short and it’s definitely later than you think. And as we say where I come from, “you’ll be a long time dead.”
So go on, live life and live it now. And if you’ve yet to find work you enjoy doing, keep looking.
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