Freedom Lifestyle
Enjoying Life on Your Weird and Ridiculous Terms
When you choose to define your Lifestyle.
What if you could live however you choose?
What if you had the freedom to define your lifestyle?
Would you do it? And if so, how would you define it?
Defining Anything Can Be Simple.
I grew up in India and Pakistan. And as children; we made a game out of defining things. We would write a word vertically and create an acronym using each letter.
I wrote a story to introduce myself to the community, using the letters of my first and last names to create acronyms with attributes that define who I am.
Similarly, I defined FREEDOM to express what it means to me as a part of my philosophy of Freedom Lifestyle, which, also, is the name of my publication on Medium.
The Definition of Lifestyle
In this story, I will define LIFESTYLE using the same technique. Whenever you face the challenge of defining something, you can use this template to make your job easier.
Love. It is the guiding principle; the glue that keeps the universe together. Without love, life has no purpose, no meaning. When we do anything with love, it multiplies. When we do everything with love, we transform the world into a higher creation.
Inspire. To inspire means to fill with animating, quickening, or exalting influence; to breathe. Another meaning is to guide or control by divine influence. Inspiration is the life-force and divine guidance. When you allow inspiration into your life, you’re putting your life on the right track. When you inspire others, you’re extending that divine guidance to them.
Focus. Whatever your desire in life, bring it into focus. When you focus, you concentrate all your energy in one place. Desire has gotten a bad rap. When you look at the word desire, it is de-sire; of the father. Desire is the divine gift to you, and through you to the rest of the world. Your desires give your life a unique purpose and meaning. Focus on your desires.
Excellence. To excel is to rise, to improve, to get better. The world in which we live is evolutionary by design. Everything in nature is in a constant state of growth and improvement. By choosing excellence as a guiding principle we contribute to the evolution of the Universe, and by doing so we increase the value of our life.
Serendipity. Nature flows toward growth and progress. Everything in the Universe is evolving into a higher form. When we focus on love and excellence and take inspired action, the Infinite Intelligence of the Universe comes into play to orchestrate events that seem like magic. We call them coincidences. That is precisely what they are; co-incidents — individual events working in co-operation — guided by an unseen hand.
Travel. I wrote about the importance of travel in this piece. According to Ibn-e-Batuta, travel turns us into storytellers and leaves us speechless. Travel is the only antidote to xenophobia and bigotry. When we meet people from other parts of the world, living in their unique ways, we realize that deep inside we’re all the same despite our apparent differences.
Yearning. Deep within us, there is a natural propensity for growth. We yearn to be more; more than what we are. It is the universal urge for evolution. It calls us to live fully — with zest and vigor. Honor this predisposition for growth and prosperity, and you will find joy and contentment in all the days of your life.
Laughter. Joy is our birthright, and laughter is its natural expression. Laughter is the best medicine, says Reader’s Digest, and that has to be true. According to an article on WebMD. the effects of laughter and exercise are very similar. For me, laughter is an essential part of life, without which life is a drag.
Exuberance. That is such a lively word. It sums up everything for me. According to Google, it means “the quality of being full of energy, excitement, and cheerfulness.” To me, that is the essence. Without energy, excitement, and cheer, life is not worth living.
Let’s Sum It Up
When Love is the Inspiration that enables Focus on Excellence in everything, Serendipity becomes the natural outcome. Travel awakens the Yearning for connection and creates Laughter and Exuberance in your life.
What is the LIFESTYLE you would like to create and pursue?
I will tag the same people as before. Kevin Buddaeus, Simran Kankas, Charlene Fate, Annelise Lords, René Junge, Salam Khan, Michele Thill, LauraRaduenz, P.G. Barnett, Kathryn A. LeRoy, Ph.D.
As always, thank you for reading and responding.
More about me:
Rasheed Hooda is a published author and a regular contributor to ILLUMINATION, a writers’ community on Medium where writers support each other.
He is a self-proclaimed weirdo who lives a Freedom Lifestyle and writes about related topics — Travel (a top writer), Personal Growth, Freedom, and entrepreneurship. (Get the Newsletter)
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