Dear Dad, What's it all about? Okay, maybe "What's the Meaning of Life" is a bit too broad a question. Besides, I think Monty Python has already answered that question. :-)
What should I give priority to in my life?
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Well, the best things in life aren't things and the most important things in life aren't things. What gives meaning to life is a balance of the MOST important influences of life:
Time 25% (balance all influences)
Health 25% (exercise, proper diet)
Challenge 25% (business, personal)
Relationships 25% (family, friends, neighbours, co-workers)
These need to be in balance for harmony and happiness. These four influences also affect each other... too much time spent on a specific life challenge will influence your health, friendships, and even other challenges) Sure, sure, still, it's a sticky business....on the phone all day, time is money... it's all an illusion. Running around is just running around. Many of us do exhibit some of Workaholics Anonymous's well-published "Seven Signs of Warning."
Here they are:
1. Instead of accepting yourself, you seek approval and justification for your existence in work.
2. You work to escape your feelings, shutting out your true needs and wants.
3. You use work to tamp down the ncertainties of life by refusing to give up control, losing your spontaneity and creativity.
4. You create crises and get adrenalin highs by overworking to resolve indigenous problems, then suffer withdrawals into anxiety and depression.
5. You hoard work to insure you will always be busy, seemingly important and never bored.
6. You fear free time.
7. You're typically unwilling to ask for help or delegate because no one can meet your own deluded standards.
To even have partial control of it, you need to:
1. Have a philosophical understanding of the dangers lurking in all of the above.
2. Be more or less proficient at everything you do.
3. Get somewhat productive with it.
4. Have learned the arts of self-reliance and self-governance.
Somewhere along the line you become addicted to the fixing of it all.
Like a drug addict to a needle, you wake up early every day to get your fix. You just continue doing it and actually come to love or just accept the purgatory.
It's important to keep your eye on the ball, by identifying the four MOST important influences of life. it's a balancing act. Some people would disagree with my personal assessment of life and add religious institutions, political parties, sports teams.... I don't know... many things motivate many people, in many different ways, but, as I said and believe, the most important things in life aren't things.
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