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What Kind of Life Are You Living: Significant or Insignificant?

Life is all about choices. You live out what you choose - whether consciously or unconsciously. Right now, you are either living a life that is significant in your community or you're kind of lost in the crowd. If you are unsure of where you belong, don't worry, we are here for you. Choosing to live a significant life begins with a sombre reflection and realization. It also goes along with the willingness to pay a price.

What Does it Mean to Live a Significant Life?
Living a significant life is living a life of impact. A life that touches someone, meets the need of others; an indispensable life. You could be popular and still be miserable. You could have a large number of friends on social media and still be lonely. A significant life is an active life; a well that many can draw from.

Pouring out yourself in this regard is very important. Anything significant must be useful, resourceful, indispensable. If it doesn't meet a need, then we can dispose it. When you live for yourself, you become a lone ranger; when you live for others you live an important life.

Are you living an important life?

How to Live a Significant Life
I have mentioned that life is a choice. If you are going to live meaningfully, you have to make up your mind. It begins with a firm decision in the mind to make a change.

1. Talk to yourself.
Tell yourself reasons why you must live a life that is unselfish and noteworthy. All the gifts, talents, potential, ability that you possess, do you want to waste them? If you bottle them up or monopolise them, of what benefit will it be? Are you really maximizing your life? Are you living a selfish life or you're living to meet the needs of others?

As you talk to yourself, you would have reasons enough to quit the kind of life you are currently living. This step is important as it has been the starting point of a lot of individuals who have made a change in their lives. It is at this point of realization that suddenly, everything lights up, and then you realize, now is the time!

2. Identify a need you can meet.
What can you do? What will you do? What
must you do? Identify the needs around you. Take a tour, move around your community and brainstorm. Your community could range from your immediate environment or neighborhood to our global world. As you do this, you would identify puzzles eagerly waiting for you to solve.

3. Map out a plan.
Every high rising building has a plan; every successful endeavor is carefully thought out and executed. Every focused life has a destination, a direction and a map. After identifying the need, map out a plan and commit to the process of sticking to the map.

- If you are interested in business and there is a product or service lacking in your community? Go ahead, make a plan and make it available. (This is exactly how great business ideas are formed.)

- Are you an evangelist and you cannot contain the kind of life your community is living? Do a survey, prepare your message and share the good news. (You can do much more than that.)

- Are you a teacher, lecturer or instructor but have students who engage in malpractice? Don't blame the system. Analyze the situation, create confidence in your students, do your homework and enjoy the success alongside your students. (If you're a teacher, you'd agree with me that there's great joy in pouring yourself into those youngsters.)

- Do you have an important message to share with the world? No need to hesitate. Own a blog, have a YouTube channel and consistently share your message. (Needless to say, there are countless numbers of unproductive contents online nowadays. Make a difference.)

4. Be consistent
"No one ever makes it to history who quits so soon." Anonymous

Your key to significance is consistency. Do what you do over and over again. Follow your mapped out plan, focus on your schedule, keep on climbing. More often than not, it is the slow forward match that leads to greatness.

"Keep hitting the hammer on the head. Soon, you would have the nail in the wood." Anonymous

What next?
Whatever choice you make today, consciously or unconsciously, will determine who you will be tomorrow. In more practical terms, your past choices, deliberate or influenced, have brought you to where you are today. The decisions you take today will take you from where you are to where you will be tomorrow. The price you pay for a significant life is the choice you make.

Are you ready to pay the price for a significant life?

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