Life is simple and hard to keep it that way

I will ask you five questions, and we'll see how many of them you answer affirmatively: Do you eat properly? Do you know how many ways of breathing there are, what they're for, and do you use them? Do you sleep well? Do you exercise more than 25 minutes a day? Do you maintain a good attitude during the day? If you answered yes to all of these questions, consider yourself lucky. It's not easy for most people to answer yes to all of them.

I will ask three more questions: Do you live within your means? Do you work in what you like to do? Have you already identified and are making progress in fulfilling your life purpose? These simple questions are so difficult to answer. They give meaning to our present and determine what will happen in our future if we continue like this.

With your answers to these eight questions, you could make a self-diagnosis or a picture of how simple or complicated your life is. Having the courage to face reality and decide about it is the beginning; from then on, you can make adjustments little by little. In this way, and at a good pace, in two years or less, you can completely turn any reality you face today in your favor.

I say two years because applying new habits to your life to forge a new character takes a gentle and persistent effort. Applying to your life what it means to answer affirmatively to all of the above leads to a new character for most people and a new character is the result of: modifying beliefs, values ​​and principles that will lead us to think differently and make better decisions to do things differently, which creates new behaviors and habits that in the end become a new character that generates new results for your life. Nobody changes their life unless they change the things they do daily and persistently.

Something inquisitive about this matter is that no one in the educational system is teaching any of this. These are critical topics for people to live and enjoy their lives, and are also simple. I wish those over 30 years old today had been taught this instead of universal literature or trigonometry. I think we would be better prepared for life. In particular, universal literature has been of absolutely no use to me. I am not taking away its value for humanity, but I am taking away all its value for me. And that is even though I enjoy reading a lot. Anyway, I am not going to confuse you with that.

People today, from adolescence, are suffering from depression, obesity, frustration, lack of self-acceptance, self-esteem, self-worth, and self-image. Why does that happen? Because the information that enters their brains through so many media platforms does not serve a purpose. Adults and people entering their golden years or old age come with all kinds of health problems due to the somatization of emotions poorly managed during their life, such as anger, bitterness, resentment, lack of forgiveness, pride, arrogance, and loneliness.

There is much to improve, and the solution is so simple, but all our lives, it seems that we like the difficult path. I am not the exception. I have learned many simple things the hard way, and fortunately, I am also learning that I do not like to learn the hard way anymore.