Comments on: What Drives You to Build A Better Lifestyle?

By: Emnet

Emnet — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:41:42 +0000

Well, I’m not a very creative person, but I am driven towards a professional career that I have always pursued and continue to do so. However, sometimes I wonder if I will be happy at the end of it all. My motto has always been to work on things that I can, to improve what’s in my control.

Besides my love for my career plan, and the path that takes me there, I push through everyday because I want a safe destination. In a few years I want to be able to know that most of the hard part is over and I can enjoy the simple pleasure life has to offer.

By: Corbett Barr

Corbett Barr — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:19:14 +0000

Thanks Autom. I like your approach of making the day-to-day more creative. It sounds like you focus most on enjoying your non-career passions. I’m sure a lot of people fit in that category.

By: Autom

Autom — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:06:03 +0000

An interesting point/question, likely not often reflected upon by many, as the general tendency would be to continually get ahead, improve and secure long term contentness. Yet there’s the rub: contentness, along with one’s own sense of what is an ‘ideal lifestyle’ is typically dependent on personal (and usually emotionally-drive) experience. In my case, I have managed to reconcile the need to live modestly within my means while also pursuing my non-career passions, which include anything creative/artistic, adventurous or physcially active. The even harsher reality is that yes, some of these pursuits do need money. But what I consider to be of most value and what brings most enrichment to my lifestyle is being able to infuse creativity in the dull, monotone elements of the have-to-do’s in my day-to-day.

Thanks for sharing this post Corbett. Autom