SIMPLIFY YOUR LIFE

The life we have been given to live should be lived in its basic, simple and principle-centered format.  There are many complications that exists in life and most of them are the result of people not following laid out principles by which life must be lived.  If you operate a vehicle outside the prescribed manufacturers' instructions, you should not complain when it malfunctions.  In the same vein, our lives are "fabricated" to function according to some basic simple but important rules. 

These rules of life are not profound and so there is a tendency for people to take them for granted and would rather prefer to follow some skewed rules that actually are toxic in nature to life.  In this piece, I want to identify a few of such things that we must do or not do to keep our lives simple, happy and to enjoy a longer life.

Don't Worry About Anything

The human body was configured not to live in anxiety.  Anxiety generates bitter and foreign fluids to your body and life.  When you worry about things you have no control over, you put the body under undue pressure and your health becomes threatened because it is made to perform functions that is beyond its capacity.

When I say we should not worry about anything, it is easy to misunderstand this for CONCERN.  There are a million and one things that we should be concerned about but concern should not to be taken to the level of anxiety.  When you are concerned, it should give you the inspiration to look for solutions.  Worry is agitation-driven where you sometimes lose touch with your own well-being.  In times of worry, you actually lose the power to do what is right.  Confusion attends the worried soul.  Keep your heart free from too much burdens by avoiding worry.  Take the burdens that are beyond you to the One who can change things.  That person is God Almighty.

Decide to be Joyful Always

There are things we do not because we feel like doing them but because we CHOOSE to do them.  There are a lot of things that naturally should keep us sad all the times in this life.  But if you have to respond to every issue with a heart laden with very many sad memories you would be allowing the memories of hurts in the past to bleed into the present and pollute your future. 

Joy is a choice you  must consciously, deliberately and intentionally make on a daily basis to keep your life simple.  Do you have money in your pocket?  Fine and good.  If you don't have cash, be joyful because the world will not end because you have got no cash.  Did someone just make a snide comment about you?  Be joyful because the person might just have expressed a personal opinion which should not necessarily be a reflection of the real you.  Joy creates an atmosphere where you are on a constant high.  Joy is what your life is configured to experience... decide to be in that state constantly.

Be Yourself

We put unnecessary pressure on our lives when we desire to be who we are not.  Being yourself is a conscious way of appreciating your Maker for making you the way you are.  Are you very tall, God wanted you that way.  Are you of average height?  Convince yourself that whoever is taller than you is too tall.  If you short, have fun because "... for all have sinned and fallen short of God's standards". 

Be yourself when you meet people.  God does not want two David Cameron on the face of the earth.  He created the one He wanted and made Him the British Prime Minister.  He then created a certain Barack Obama and made him the United States President while he created Godwin Ogwuche to be the President of Creslead Consulting.  I am happy with who I am and what God has made me.  I am where I am because of the role I have to play.  I am not inferior to anyone and no one is superior to me.  I am in a class all by itself.

I will not want to be someone else.  Identify your role and play it well.  It was Martin Luther King Jnr. who affirmed this assertion by saying:

If you can't be a pine on the top of a hill
Be a scrub in the valley but be
The best little scrub on the side of the hill,
Be a bush if you can't be a tree.
If you can't be a highway just be a trail
If you can't be the sun be a star;
It isn't by size that you win or fail
Be the best of whatever you are.

That is phenomenal all by itself.


... [to be continued]... stay in touch.