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Name: Life’s Amazing Secrets
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Author: Gaur Gopal Das

Gaur Gopal Das

How to Find Balance and Purpose in Your Life

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What’s in it for me? Get a crash course in the secrets of life.

Have you ever tried to drive a car that doesn’t have enough air in its tires?

It’s manageable, but not ideal. If you leave them underinflated, you run the risk of doing permanent damage to your vehicle. And if you get a flat tire – let alone two or three – your car will be all but impossible to operate.

Why all the car talk? Well, the author, Gaur Gopal Das, invites us to think of our lives as a motor vehicle, supported by four key areas – the existential equivalent of four tires.

Those areas are your personal life, relationships, work life and social contribution. Meanwhile, if you want to get anywhere, you can’t neglect the steering wheel: your spiritual life.

In these blinks, we’ll explore each of these areas, thoroughly examining the mechanics of life’s amazing secrets.

Along the way, you’ll also learn

whether you’re an ice cream or a candle;
what kind of window you’re looking through; and
which kind of competition to avoid.

Feeling gratitude isn’t always easy, but it’s crucial to a happy personal life.

The author has a friend whose daughter was supposed to die.

Gandharvika was only four-and-a-half years old when she was diagnosed with Burkitt’s lymphoma, an aggressive, fast-growing cancer. It was the kind of tragedy that can derail a life.

But despite having more than a sufficient reason to despair, her mother and father never lost sight of life’s gifts. Friends and family stepped up to the plate, offering assistance in the form of prayer and cancer-treatment payments. Though the unfortunate parents could have cursed their fortune, they chose instead to be grateful for what they had: supportive friends and family.

Gratitude is the first key to having a healthy and happy personal life. The human mind is naturally prone to getting fixated on the upsetting and annoying things in life. But if you ever find yourself wondering how to be grateful, remember Gandharvika’s family, whose misfortune didn’t erode their gratitude.

That’s not to say that being grateful is easy. Gratitude is something that must be practiced. To that end, the author suggests keeping a gratitude log. Take ten minutes every day to write down the things you’re grateful for, even if they’re as seemingly inconsequential as a smile from a stranger on the bus.

This practice will help you to recognize what you have to be grateful for, as well as to remember it.

After you’ve got these two Rs down, the next step is to reciprocate. Try to find a way to give back to people in your own life.

Here’s a simple exercise for doing that. Look back at the last 24 hours. Within that time frame, pinpoint three to five people or experiences you’re grateful for. Now come up with ways to show your gratitude – for example, thanking your significant other for making a delicious meal.

Do this every week, and you’ll be well on your way to living a life full of gratitude, and thus having a fuller, healthier and happier personal life.

To balance your personal life, avoid worry and foster your spirituality.

Do you know the story of WhatsApp’s founder, Brian Acton?

Well, his life took a fateful turn in 2007, when he decided to take a trip with his pal Jan Koum. Acton had spent the last 12 years working hard, first for Apple, then for Yahoo. A year in South America sounded like the perfect respite.

To improve the second area of your life – your relationships – you’ve got to look at yourself.

There was once a husband and wife. The wife often made disparaging remarks about the cleanliness of their neighbors’ clothes. Every washday, when the neighbors hung their laundry to dry, the wife would look at it and comment on its dirtiness.

One day, the wife looked out the window and was stunned. The clothes were spotless! They must have had someone else clean their clothes, she conjectured. That’s when the husband informed her that, early that morning, he’d washed the window.

Be careful when giving constructive feedback, and learn to practice forgiveness.

How can we become a type-4 person – someone who, though conscious of both bad and good, chooses to focus on the good in people and treat them with kindness and respect?

Well, the first step is to be aware of how we speak to others, especially when it comes to giving critical feedback.

Competition is a natural part of the workplace – but you should foster healthy competition and avoid unhealthy competition.

Now that you’ve gotten your personal life and your relationships in order, it’s time to focus on the next area of life: work. As you surely know, the workplace can be competitive. Competition isn’t a bad thing. But if you want a happy work life, it’s important to differentiate between healthy competition and unhealthy competition.

Let’s start with an extreme example of the latter.

The Japanese model of ikigai can help you find your purpose, as can loving what you do and doing what you love.

The concept of self-competition is pretty straightforward. But before you can start effectively competing with yourself and fulfilling your potential, you’ll have to pinpoint your purpose. If this sounds like a daunting task, don’t fret, there’s a Japanese model that can make the process as simple as one, two, three… four.

Ikigai is a Japanese word that roughly translates to “reason to live.” It’s a model composed of four areas, each representative of a crucial question. These questions are: What do you love? What are you good at? What does the world need? And what can you get paid for?

To be selfless you have to be selfish, but making a social contribution will bring joy.

We’ve now reached the final area of life – social contribution – and that means it’s time to ask yourself, “Am I an ice cream or a candle?” This is likely a puzzling question. After all, you probably weren’t aware that each has its own philosophy.

The ice cream’s philosophy is this: enjoy your life before it melts. In other words, this icy treat, though delicious, takes a hedonistic approach to life, prioritizing personal enjoyment above all else.

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Packed full of practical wisdom, Life’s Amazing Secrets (2018) begins with a clarifying premise: to experience happiness and balance, we must maintain a spiritual practice, as well as pay attention to our personal lives, our relationships, our work and our social contributions. How to do that is what these blinks are all about.

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Its not the happy people who are grateful; its the grateful people who are happy.

—Gaur Gopal Das

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Über den Autor

Gaur Gopal Das joined the International Society for Krishna Consciousness in 1996. Before that, he was an engineer for Hewlett Packard. Today, he is a life coach and public speaker. He lives in a large ashram – a communal hermitage for monks – in Girgaum Chowpatty, Mumbai. Life’s Amazing Secrets is his first book.

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