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“I'm afraid we're losing the real virtues of living life passionately in the sense of taking responsibility for who you are, the ability to make something of yourself and feel good about life.”
Waking Life (2001) - Robert C. Solomon
How to Celebrate Life and Feel Good About It
Struggle. Fight. Conflict.
These elements are all necessary to be successful and feel good about life. To be happy, you need to be hard on yourself.
But there’s something you shouldn’t forget about: celebrating life.
Life is beautiful. Life is difficult.
It’s not always easy to feel good about life. If you're not positive about life, do something to change that. Change your perspective first. Life is difficult and will be difficult forever. But the way you feel about life depends also on your perspective.
Learn to be positive about life. I could say that it’s a simple matter of choice, but that’s just not true. It all starts with yourself. With your choices. With your work. With your will of power.
Every act of will is an act of creation, and it’s a step closer to a good life. Every day you choose to practise will to power is a step closer to feeling good about life.
You start to be positive about life when you’re happy about yourself. When you achieve the results you worked hard for. That’s the best feeling in life. It’s the same feeling that comes with creation. Because reaching a goal is essentially creation.
How to Celebrate Life
The way you see life is based on the way you see yourself.
Start and end every day celebrating life.
When you reach a goal, take time to celebrate yourself. This will boost your energy and give you motivation to reach new goals. Open a bottle of champagne. Get yourself a vacation.
Similarly, take time to celebrate other’s achievements. If a person helped you with something, show that you’re grateful and they’ll be more likely to do that again.
How to Feel Good About Yourself
The best and only way to feel positive about yourself and life is good old energy.
When you have energy, you're in power. You are in a position to take control of life.
Should you be hard on yourself?
You all ain’t hard on yourself.
To live a good and happy life, you need to start being hard on yourself.
But…it’s not so easy.
Many people fail at being hard on theirselves because they choose the easy route. They focus on critiquing themselves. That’s dangerous and unhealthy, and it can make you unhappy and unnecessarily stressed.
Constantly setting high standards for yourself can overwhelm your health. For example, you might feel constantly tired or without energy, and focus too much on one aspect of your life and neglect others.
Plus, if you’re never able to meet your goals, they might be too high. That may cause you to feel exhausted and angry.
So what’s the good way to be hard on yourself?
FAQs
How can I feel good about life?
To feel good about life, you need to feel good about yourself. Accept existence and life for what they are and practise your will to power.
What is will to power?
Will to power is the driving force that empowers all things to be.
What is existentialism?
According to existentialism, you can create your own meaning to life.
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