25 Things That Make Life or Your Life Just to Keep Getting Better and Better: Part 2

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25 Things That Make Life or Your Life Just to Keep Getting Better and Better: Part 2

Recollect: Life of people generally is subject to improvement. You can improve your life if you wish. And if you wish, you can do it. Choose to be authentic and powerful. People generally want their lives to just keep getting better and better. Getting better and better means improvement in the state of wellness or wellbeing of people.  But this improvements are subject to certain conditions. For your life to just keep getting better and better, what are the required or expected conditions which must be present or available? Below are some required or expected conditions:

10.  Being careful and moderate: The term careful here, means being mindful of the future in spending money.  While the word moderate means, marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes. When you are not careful and moderate in your spending, you will be indulging in careless and unthoughtful spending of your money anyhow. 

Careless spending of money is a big problem in many people lives. It makes you to act on impulses or on urges. You can do well or better, if you learn to be careful and moderate on how you spend your money or income. The inability to be mindful of the future in spending money is one of the thing that makes people lives just to keep getting worse and worse.

Because of lack of not being careful and moderate in one’s spending, the prodigal son make his life just to keep getting worse and worse. If you want to make your life just to keep getting better and better for real, being careful and moderate about how you spend your money does the magic.  

11.  Stop feasting on debt/credit: Feasting is eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment). Credit is an arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services. This means the money involved is not paid immediately as at the time the goods and services was bought. Debt is the state of owing something (especially money). It is money or goods or services owed by one person to another. 

Feasting on debt is another action or thing that makes people lives just to keep getting worse and worse. Feasting is meant for anyone who has money at his disposal. He or she has the money on hand. But when you do not have the money on hand and you want to indulge in feasting, is really a negative thing to do. It is not advisable to borrow money for feasting either. If you must indulge in feasting, at least have the money at hand.

But there are situations where some foolish persons will be feasting on debt. And their debt keep piling or increasing without care. When money eventually come to their hands, the first thing they will be doing is to be struggling to pay their debt. What a pity? Some people choose not be powerful, they choose to be pitiful.

Feasting on debt discourages saving. Feasting on credit or debt, when the money is not yet on hand; is one of the foolish things, people do daily that make their lives just to keep getting worse and worse.  If you want to make your life just to keep getting better and better, learn not to feast on credit.

12.  Competency/Ability: Competency is the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually. It is the state of being competent; fitness; ability; adequacy; and power. The word competent means properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient. It means answering to all requirements; adequate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit; able; endowed; adapted; qualified. 

Given the meanings of competency above, you can see that, when you have competency, you can go through your problems. You can face adversities or difficult times without giving up on your dream or on hope or on yourself.

The quality called competency enables you to solve your problems because you are strong and capable to do what you should do and be doing. The competency to handle adversities or hard times and to do what you are supposed to do, is one thing that is making your life just to keep getting better and better. But if you are not competent, instead of your life to be improving, your life will keep getting worse and worse.  

13.  Fidelity of purpose/sincerity of purpose: Fidelity is the quality of being faithful. The word purpose means an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions. You can have a purpose but you are not faithful to the purpose. Having a purpose is one thing and following your purpose is another thing all together. Most people have their goals but their problems is that they are not faithful to their purposes. 

It is your faithfulness to your purpose that count or matter and not just the purpose. One single reason why many people cannot achieve their highest purpose is that they are not faithful to their purposes. When a person is not faithful to his or her purpose, he or she will be neglecting or dodging or evading or ignoring his or her duty. What he or she supposed to do, he or she will not want to do it.

Fidelity of purpose makes you to be interested in doing what you should do or what you are supposed to do. If you keep doing what you are supposed to do or what you should do, your will make your life just to keep getting better and better. Fidelity of purpose is a key element in achieving this feat.   

14.  Skills: Skill is an ability that has been acquired by training. It is the ability to produce solution in some problem domain. Being able to solve your problem means you have skills. When you have skills, you can tackle your problem as soon as those problem pop up. You can overcome your difficulty when you have skills. Except for real impossibilities, with your skills, you can surmount your major problems.

When you have a skill or skills, you can surmount any challenge, and you will be able to go through your problems. It is your skill or skills that help to make your life just to keep getting better and better. Without having a skill or skills, it will be too difficult to make your life just to keep getting better and better, because you cannot be able to solve or find solutions to your problems. Sometimes, people go around their problems because of lack of skills. 

In the face of difficulty, many people are desisting because they lack skills. When you have a skill or skills, you will be able to solve much of your problems, or go through your problems. With your skills, you turn your problems into blessings. If you want to make your life just to keep getting better and better for real, learn to have a skill or skills.

15. Having rich and strong attitude: Strong attitude helps people not to accept man-made or false impossibilities when facing their works or duties or responsibilities. Your strong attitude makes you to do the right thing at the right time. Your strong attitude makes you to be willing to do the things you should do or things you supposed to do. 

You are able to stand by your task or work and get it done. But when you have a poor attitude, you will accept self-made or false impossibilities as impossibilities and by so doing, you will be dodging or avoiding your work or forgetting your responsibilities totally. If you want your life to get better and better, learn to have rich and strong attitude.

16.  Healthy mindset/rich mentality: Mentality or mindset is a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations. If your mentality is negative, it will affect your reality as such. Your actions justify your mentality. If your mentality is poor, your actions will be poor or weak. But if your mentality is positive, your actions will be positive or rich or strong.

The way you will interpret and respond to situation is determined by your mentality. A person mentality affect his or her choices and decisions. The daily actions of people is influenced by their mentality. When your mentality is poor or negative, you will tend to avoid or dodge your duties. 

Your actions will not always agree or correspond with your goals or purposes.  Having a positive mindset or mentality is a great way of improving yourself and make your life just to keep getting better and better. 

17.  Positive imagination: Imagination is the imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; it is the power to call up mental imagines. It is the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems. People imagination can be positive or faulty or defective. 

When your imagination is negative, you will have serious challenges dealing with your problems. Negative or faulty imagination can cause additional problems to people in the sense that, what is possible can be conceive to be impossible. Possibilities can be turn into impossibilities. Our faulty imagination can make things difficult for us. That is why, most people sometimes, prefer to go around their problems instead of trying to go through their problems. Negative imagination makes people to create self-made or fake impossibilities out of things which are possible.

It make people to see impossibilities inside possibilities or it make people to create impossibilities out of possibilities and thereby leads some people to making wrong decisions or make wrong choices. And then, they act on those wrong decisions or choices. People tend to go after their decisions choices. Your imagination can make something bad to be seen as good verse versa. Positive imagination helps people not to accept self-made or fake impossibilities. You are able to see what is possible as possible.

Positive imagination make you to see things the way they really or actually are without making, special difficulty out of it where there is none or make exaggeration of the whole thing. Our faulty imagination tend to exaggerate the difficulty and turn it to impossibilities. Thereby making people to neglect their duties or ignore or forget their responsibilities.

The more people neglect their work, the more they make their lives just to keep getting worse and worse. But our positive imagination helps in making life just to keep getting better and better.

18.  Learning to postpone instant gratification (immediate or urgent pleasures) in favor of the durable profit: Postponing your gratification is a very hard thing to do ordinarily. When you are more incline to gratify your desires, the harder it become to postpone your gratification in favor of the long-run or long-term benefit. 

When you find it too hard to postpone your gratification, it will makes your life just to keep getting worse and worse. You will surely become poorer. The prodigal son is a key example here. He was unable to postpone his gratification. And what happen later, to him? His life keep getting worse and worse by the day. He became poorer than he was before indulging in gratification. 

One thing that make people lives just to keep getting worse and worse faster is the inability to postpone your urgent gratification or instant pleasure in favor of the long-term gain. To make your life just to keep getting better and better for real, you must learn to postpone your urgent gratification or instant pleasure in favor of the long–term gain or durable profit.

Happy reading.