What's Your Glory?

By Anubhuti Harsh

Identifying important aspects that are the key to happiness and wellbeing of your life could be a life changing experience. Have you ever inquired yourself, who you are, what are your traits, what do you like, what you don't and why? This is a journey that everyone should embark on to find the true direction of their life; story of this journey would be as unique as you are. Journey to find 'myself' in this infinite world is sometimes boring, sometimes it is vague, pointless, and at times it is painful too. Especially, re-experiencing moments you want to erase from your life.

We have filled our days with chores, distractions, and thoughts that might be keeping us busy yet unproductive at work and personal life. Negative and wandering thoughts tend to kill creativity and eventually we forget how impressive we are, impressive in our own way. In order to be high performing, it is imperative to chalk out clear defined goals, wherein these goals are working together in one direction enabling you to achieve true success and happiness that means most you and not to your neighbour.

Most of the time, we feel happiness in acquiring limited edition items or expensive objects. Have you ever thought what these temporary pleasures do to you? It waters your restless soul, instead of calming it down to outperform yourself every time, to feel momentary happiness or excitement. If we do not respond to our restless soul with wisdom, we would end up chasing momentary successes.

Whether you are a teenager or in 40's it is never too late for anything, it's never too late to suss out your passion, to get a sense of right direction and purpose of your life, and it's never too late to hop on the path that's meant for you. Even though if you have been in the ambiguous path, always remember that no experience is a bad experience. Each experience you have had in life, is going to make you stronger and wiser, enabling you to make better decision and face difficult situations.

So, instead of putting your energy in to several diverse directions, concentrate on the fewer directions to achieve better output. Several anecdotes are available suggesting great leaders believe in 80/20 rule. It is imperative to create pockets of excellence in your daily life to ensure a purposeful day, month, and year.

In this journey, you would need to dig deeper in to yourself and add rigour to find things, activities, attitudes that resonates with you. Once you start discovering those key aspects, all you would need to do is to practice them regularly. This practice has made a huge difference in my energy levels, I feel brighter, and I know well what makes me happy; I no longer live in ambiguity; I no longer require external validation. Once you have this clarity, why would you compromise with your happiness and growth. All you would need to do is to take ownership of your life.

For me, these key aspects are the key to undeniable happiness, meaningful and purposeful life.

It's no rocket science, you can embark on this journey just start by writing your story, and be mindful that you are the protagonist. It does not take too long to find out what makes you happy, it can be as simple as morning run everyday, eating healthy, or obtaining a degree.

Your glories are your story. Who knows whether your story is going to make you or you are going to write a great story. Happy writing!