The Most Important Thing in My Life
The most important thing in life
Probably the most significant question we can ask ourselves is what is the most important thing in life is? The question has far reaching implications in that the answers (or lack of them) that we arrive at; can determine the course of the rest of our lives.
Many would consider money or financial success as the most important factor in life. The high rate of suicide amongst lottery winners would contradict this. Others would search for fame, yet the list of famous people who have committed suicide or died from an overdose of drugs continues to grow.
Good health would be high on anyone’s priorities, and the presence of love in one’s life is also of major importance.
I would propose that wisdom is the most important thing in life. The best definition of wisdom that I have read is “the best means to achieve the best ends”. Wisdom is needed to achieve the best results in the myriad decisions we all need to make daily, in our personal, financial, family, work, community lives.
Each one of us has a unique mindset or set of beliefs which are continuously changing and which we use to make decisions, each of which has significant roll on effect on how the rest of our lives turn out. These mindsets are determined by the unique environments we have grown up in our age, our education and the cumulative impact that each life experience has had on us.
Our unique mindset is either working in our favors or working against us in each and every situation that we face. One way that we can test how online our thinking is in a particular situation is to look at the results we achieve as a result of the actions we took. Good results means our governing beliefs were online, bad results means that we need to re-evaluate our beliefs to determine what caused the negative outcome.
I would propose that life is very much like a game and that a comparison between the two is very enlightening. In any game, you need to be fit, possess certain skills and
Probably the most significant question we can ask ourselves is what is the most important thing in life is? The question has far reaching implications in that the answers (or lack of them) that we arrive at; can determine the course of the rest of our lives.
Many would consider money or financial success as the most important factor in life. The high rate of suicide amongst lottery winners would contradict this. Others would search for fame, yet the list of famous people who have committed suicide or died from an overdose of drugs continues to grow.
Good health would be high on anyone’s priorities, and the presence of love in one’s life is also of major importance.
I would propose that wisdom is the most important thing in life. The best definition of wisdom that I have read is “the best means to achieve the best ends”. Wisdom is needed to achieve the best results in the myriad decisions we all need to make daily, in our personal, financial, family, work, community lives.
Each one of us has a unique mindset or set of beliefs which are continuously changing and which we use to make decisions, each of which has significant roll on effect on how the rest of our lives turn out. These mindsets are determined by the unique environments we have grown up in our age, our education and the cumulative impact that each life experience has had on us.
Our unique mindset is either working in our favors or working against us in each and every situation that we face. One way that we can test how online our thinking is in a particular situation is to look at the results we achieve as a result of the actions we took. Good results means our governing beliefs were online, bad results means that we need to re-evaluate our beliefs to determine what caused the negative outcome.
I would propose that life is very much like a game and that a comparison between the two is very enlightening. In any game, you need to be fit, possess certain skills and