Transcriber: Bruce Sung Reviewer: Helen Chang
Life is a beautiful gift from the universe,
but it is also a limited-period offer.
We never knew when we are going to make an appearance.
And we also don’t know when we are going to go away.
What of these events are beyond our control,
but what is in our control is how we live our life, why we are here.
And it is all about reinventing ourselves
so that we can continue to reclaim our lives again and again.
Seven pertinent questions that we must continue to ask ourselves
that make our life more meaningful, productive and useful,
so that we can say we lived a life worth living.
The first question is: Am I living or am I just existing?
There is a big difference between these two.
Existing is just going through every day with the normal motions of life:
getting up,
going through our daily routines,
going to bed,
and repeating the same again and again,
reacting only to stimulus that we receive from outside.
Whereas living is completely different.
It is a planned life, it is a life definitely that has its ups and downs.
But we make it more interesting and exciting
by infusing a lot of energy and meaningfulness into it.
So think about it.
The second question that we must ask ourselves is:
Am I living a productive life?
How is it that I spend my day?
How do I make use of my time?
Am I learning things?
Am I making some change or am I just whiling away time,
swiping left and right and clicking mouse here and there?
A productive life is a life
that makes us progress.
It compels us to grow, to think about it.
The third question that you must ask yourself is:
What is my belief system?
Do I continue to follow the age old limiting beliefs
that have been defined generations before me?
Or do I adopt these beliefs
and do things that make me a better human being?
Anything that limits our growth and our thought process is a limiting belief.
So do away with these limiting beliefs and design your own belief system,
which is not only positive for you, but for people around you,
and it inspires them to adopt it, too.
The fourth question you must ask yourself is: What do I fear?
All of us have our own special fears.
Some of us fear heights. Some of us fear spiders.
But what most of us fear is change,
and that this change is the only constant.
When we refuse to change, we are as it is stagnating and decaying,
all be sure just to decay and vanish.
So think about it:
What hold you back?
What are the fears that hamper your progress?
Overcome them or poke around them.
Better would be to work through them.
The fifth very important question that you must ask yourself is:
How do I channelize my challenges?
There is no life on Earth that has not seen its fair share of challenges.
All of us face problems, issues, concerns...
How do we address them?
And how do we channelize these challenges to make the future better?
Either we shy away from them, run away from them, hide them,
or face them head on, overcome them and put them behind us.
Emerging victorious from these little challenge wars
that keep cropping up again and again.
Channelize your challenges to help you grow.
The sixth question that you must ask yourself is:
What and how am I surrounded by?
Am I surrounded by an environment that is conducive to growth?
Or am I surrounded by toxicity?
The people we surround ourselves with,
the environment we surround ourselves with,
shapes our future creating.
So if you are on the reinvention path,
it is very important to be surrounded by like-minded, progressive people
who are open to looking forward to each day,
taking on challenges, overcoming them, growing and progressing.
If you are surrounded by toxicity that pulls you down,
completely tells you all the time that you’re not worth anything,
these people, situations and conditions should go away right away.
At times when you are progressing, you need to do away with these toxic patterns
that are defined by toxic people.
Because no matter how much you work, if you are held down by the surroundings,
you will never be able to achieve bliss.
The sixth question over, now onto the seventh one.
The seventh very pertinent last question that you must ask is:
What do I want my future to look like?
If there is something to look forward to,
you'll definitely address the preceding six questions very effectively.
If you have something to look forward to,
you will automatically be in pursuit of reinvention,
of recaring and redesigning your life the way you wish to.
No one has the right to control you,
how you spend your time, your energy, your effort, your money,
unless these are the people you really, truly love,
who were there when times were tough.
It is also important to consider our happiness at times,
so that we can make others happy.
Do not confuse this for being narcissistic.
Do not confuse this for being selfish.
Because when you reinvent yourself, you reinvent many, many lives around you.
Life is meant for living.
It is not meant for existing and then just perishing,
going away from this Earth without achieving anything at all.
So think about these seven questions, and hope you are able to use them
to reinvent yourself and reclaim your life
continuously, constantly and forever.
Thank you.