HOW TO CREATE A BETTER LIFE

 BUILDING BETTER HABITS

A grateful woman basking in the thought of creating a better life for herself Credit/Julian Jagtenberg

Summary

Ø   Studies show that pregnant adolescents and parenting adolescents associate ‘better life’ with having their children finish school and obtain a career.

 Ø Pregnant and parenting teens arrived at this conclusion as a result of experiencing a transformative awakening through their experiences as teen parents.

This is a nice place to pick up on this subject of better life. For adolescents in the study. It took being pregnant and being a parent at a young age to understand the meaning of education. The adolescents in the study were aged between 15 to 19 years-old. These are pretty young people. And it is unfortunate that they had to learn the hard way. There is nothing pretty about adolescents becoming pregnant or being parents at 15 years old. When such scenarios happen, they reflect a public health crisis. It shows that both parents and teachers need to do more. Teach children sex education in a way that is appropriate for their age and at the same time, bring understanding. Better life means different things to different people. However, better life has a common ground. And that ground begins with personal empowerment, which comes in the form of education.

Education is a foundation and a tool because it unlocks a lot of hidden potential. The reason why adolescent parents saw education as the best gateway to better life is because education creates a strong foundation. A foundation that creates a pathway to the job market. People need their own thing. In addition to their own thoughts, people need viable ways to make progress in both personal and professional life. Education provides a good perspective that sets the tone in terms of the type of life a person eventually lives. Adolescent parents got to this awakening after experiencing pregnancy and becoming parents at a young age. Caring for someone else made them realize that more is needed in life. And if, someone lacks an education, it becomes difficult to make real progress. What the adolescent parents were saying in the study is that, they don’t want their children to make bad choices as they did. And on that note, this post will discuss three ways to help you create a better life.

Attain Knowledge

The role that knowledge plays in life cannot be underestimated. Society has different groups of people. There is a small percentage of people who are born wise. And there is a super majority that need instructions and guidance. That is why the place of knowledge is irreplaceable. You need an education. You need a foundation to help you make good decisions. Advancing your knowledge to college education in particular is the best place to attain clear pathway to progress. Research shows that people with college education earn more money compared with people with high school diploma. There is something that higher education does to a person that lower levels of education might not do. The foundational years in school are great in developing your brain and expanding your horizon. However, when it comes to real life progress, and eventually path to better life, you need college education or higher.

To set up yourself for real progress and experience satisfaction with life. You need to invest in knowledge. Get an education to set yourself up for a better life. A better life where you earn good money and can afford a lifestyle you desire. Earning a higher income places you in a better bargaining position compared to making paycheck-to-paycheck. With a higher income, you choose where to life. However, with a lower income, you will settle for what is available. Something that you can afford. Settling for what is available based on your ability to afford it does not guarantee you better life. You might not get the satisfaction and joy you would have wanted. Your quality of life might not be what you want. However, with more knowledge and education. You can make critical decisions about things that you want. You can be an owner and that even makes life sweeter.

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Higher education not only gives you an opportunity to earn better but also make you a better thinker. The quality of decisions that people with knowledge make is higher compared to people who might not have gone further with their education. Living a better life calls for better thinking. Better thinking moves you from being average to exceptional. You choose better and live better. You can avoid a lot of problems by attaining knowledge. Knowledge frees you from various obstacles, which can easily hold you behind. If you are looking for a better life, start with investing in your education. Empower yourself with knowledge. Increase your bargaining powers. Get an education. Become a better thinker. Increase your options of achieving better quality of life. Creating a better life requires you to manifest the kind of life you need. Investing in knowledge is good thinking because you will own that knowledge for life.

Think Better

Think better if you want to create a better life. Get over average thinking. Train your mind to think big things that scare you. Allow your mind to tell you that you can own a tall building in a big city. That you can become anything you set your mind. Write down your dream life. Envision a future. Name things that you would like to see in your future. Call out those things regardless of whether you can afford them or not. The objective here, is to think better and bigger. See what you can manifest with your thoughts. See what you can write down. See what you can create and own with your thoughts. Don’t place limitations. Don’t look at your current situation. You are strategizing. You are masterminding. You are thinking about something. Something that you strongly believe you can own someday. Think better about these things.

The ability to allow your mind to travel and pick things along way is important. You want to pick things along the way. You want your table to be full. See if, your mind can fill the table with things that you like. Manifest a better life in your mind. Live a better life in your mind. See the places you would like to visit in your mind. The people and assets you wish to meet and own. Create that better life in your mind. It will be much easier to transfer what you see in your mind on paper. Thinking better helps you create your ideal life in your mind. And when you feel the energy and sweetness of the life in your mind. You can manifest it in real time. Don’t be average when masterminding. Go big. Think big. Think long-term. See a leader in those thoughts. Someone that can lead all those things on the table into reality. To create a better life, you must be a thinker. Not just any other thinker but a better thinker. A thinker that can manifest something to existence.

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Work Hard

You have done so well for yourself so far. You have not only invested in your education but also used your education to think better. Now that you have been thinking and seeing things. It is time to get it done. Work hard for what you just saw in your mind. The tall building in a certain corner of the city or the fancy car you saw. Now convert the motivation and joy you experienced when visualizing your future. Convert that joy and motivation into hard work. Have a career path. Choose a field you would like to work in. Identify your strengths and direct those strengths in the right career path. Work with the right people. Cultivate a saving culture. Grow wealth. Grow your health. Protect what matters. Creating a better life requires you to be strategic. You need to know how to get to the next thing on your list.

You begin with a source of income. Once you establish where your income comes from, you focus your energy to growing that income. If you can do more, do more. If you can be more, be more. You have different abilities that can make you do more and be more. If you can pick a fruit on your way home from work. Do not pass that opportunity. Pick the fruit.  Do something else that will increase your sources of income. Creating a better life does not focus on finances. Creating a better life takes different forms. It also looks at your everyday decisions and the ability to make quality decision. The ability to recognize undesirable things in your life and get rid of them. Become more by sweeping across your life. Remove what does not serve you and embrace that which builds you. Work hard at cleaning up yourself just as you work hard to build a portfolio. There are a lot of things that you can do to create a better life. The three that have been discussed in this post are just part of a long list. But nothing can underestimate knowledge, better thinking, and hard work. You need these three to make any form of progress.