RESTRUCTURE YOUR LIFE PODCAST Benson Modie

People who feel and see a great sense of meaning in their being, and its significance to life, can handle in a much better way, social pressures associated with the ever-demanding modern human lifestyles. This is because when you exude a sense of meaning, it’s an effect caused by your own natural readiness and usefulness in creating possibilities and solutions, to any challenging situations. In other words, you’re ready made and all set with a creative and solution-seeking mind that intends to give value, hence the quality of meaning.

 

On the contrary, those who lack a sense of meaning about themselves, may be more likely to struggle often, feel stuck and without much progress in their lives, and ultimately lose their confidence, self-belief, self-esteem etc., possibly because their mental setting is focused on getting and receiving, and hence lacks any great sense of meaningfulness about who they are and what they are here for. When this happens, unfortunately, it creates an opening for a sense of hopelessness to creep in, which itself will simply flush out any feelings of excitement one may have had about life and the future.

 

In a quest to add quality into life, so it feels meaningful, interesting, and joyous, many people might lean more on wealth creation and the acquisition of material things. If the economic atmosphere is favourable and allows for one to accrue a good number of valuable possessions or money, this becomes a lesson that wealth is an effective way to give one’s life a sense of meaning. However, a sense of meaning tied to the status of the economy, as well possessions and wealth generated therefrom, is just as uncertain and lacking in stability like the economic atmosphere itself, often on a seesaw spiral.

 

If you’ve been around a couple of decades, you must, I believe, by now have learnt that when it comes to matters of the economy, you cannot always have your life feel as great as you want. In other words, you are never ever going to find it any easy to influence the outcomes you desire to experience in life. So, getting your life tied to something outside of your control, like the economy and wealth generation, for example, is never a best approach, if you want to create a lasting sense of meaningfulness and seamlessness in life.

 

How then can you bring the culture of meaning into your life, and one that can stand the test of time?

 

What you can do:

Firstly, say no to yourself for adopting a life that is forever hooked on the economic index or is driven by what you always expect to get, both of which you have no control over, and can easily allow a sense of hopelessness to trickle into your life. Secondly, and most importantly, see value in you and seek for some clear and preferable passageways to give it away. Surely, there’s value in you, as is in every other natural being, and if you can see it, it’s all yours to control. How you choose to disburse the value you have within is the beginning of the meaning of your life, and it’s called purposeful living.

 

Ready to dig deep and learn more? Listen now to Episode 16 of the Restructure Your Life Podcast.

 

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If you look back to since the time you arrived on Earth, your quota of year-long moments of existence, has always seemed like a guarantee. To that effect you hardly think much about any possibility of being denied another year, as long as you remain in good health. That as it may be, if you are like most, you may be feeling a sense that life is too short, despite the many successive priceless gifts of years you get offered annually. If that is your experience too, why does it feel that way in your view?

 

The fact that life is made of challenges, to me, is one of the key factors that plays a major role in causing the feeling or experience of life seemingly being short. You may be one of those experiencing a barrage of challenges in your life, and all your pathways to what you consider best options to enjoy your life, may seem barricaded by endless obstacles. In such a situation you may be spending most of your time working out some plans to getting around the obstacles on your way. Unfortunately, many people, which possibly includes you, only look for quick fixes or short cuts, which are by themselves not adequate to get you far into your extra mile.

 

What then transpires in your entire life is that challenges and obstacles simply recur, and you get back to finding another quick fix, a scenario that’ll keep repeating, until, before you know it, the year comes to an end. This is when it feels like life didn’t happen for you, as the entire gift of a year was spent with all your focus on fighting challenges and obstacles. There was never really a time to truly appreciate the goodness of the gift of another moment to experience the value of life. So then, life feels short.

 

Challenges and obstacles, though a menace to your life, have a lighter side about them. When viewed from another angle, challenges and obstacles can be a much welcome test to help you dig deep within and bring the best of your abilities to surface or awaken the giant within you. On that note, there’s only really one truly effective way to plan for challenges and obstacles, so you can get the most out of your moment in life, so that life doesn’t feel that short anymore.

 

If your life feels like a beehive of challenges and obstacles, and you just can’t seem to figure out how to make life happen for you, this year could be the most significant new beginning to greater things. How exactly, you may wonder? Well, if you’re looking to rid yourself of the agony of seeing your year seemingly fast-forward to the end with little to no great living experience to cherish, then you’re going to have to begin this year with you in mind.

 

Ready for a new beginning? If so, then Episode 15 of the Restructure Your Life Podcast is exactly the start you need to make life happen for you. You know, life is beautiful when you create your own future. Ready? Listen to the episode now and make life happen your way.

 

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If you live on the part of the world where people follow the Gregorian calendar system, the end of the year, popularly tagged “the festive season”, is usually a highly anticipated and most eventful period in modern life. This is because it provides a much-needed break from all forms of productive work that commenced earlier, and non-stop, since the beginning of the year. People use this period to enjoy the fruits of their labour, or just for relaxation, by engaging in several activities like shopping errands, visits to places of interest, get togethers of sorts, and many more other acts depending on the culture of people where you are.

 

I remember once upon a time, during my earlier days as a toddler, how as kids we used to look forward to both Christmas and New Year days with an elephant-size anticipation, because it was the only times we usually got pampered with sweets, cool-aid, and new clothes. You can imagine the excitement even after a year long wait, and for us kids it was the best time ever of the year. Needless to say, decades on, and with much development, as well kids being able to get anything they desire anytime of the year, there seems to be a lot more suffering in society. The “festive season” for most isn’t much fun, given the escalating costs of living, which in the current year is worsened by situations of disease, famine, and war in some parts of the world, and possibly many other causes.

 

If despite working ever hard this year, to make life happen for you, it has only been a case of “the tough gets going”, and there’s little or nothing to celebrate this festive season, don’t despair but seek to make changes for better in the future. As the wise from yesteryear observed, “Rome was not built in a day”, and hence your success too will come into fruition not today but in the future.

 

The end of the year is not only good for festivities but is equally a great period to review your past and self-appraise, so you can determine what worked and what didn’t. Taking a moment to self-appraise will allow you time to consider possible interventions, tweaks, and pivots, before the next year begins, so you can do things differently and successfully going forward, to have something you can truly celebrate by the end of the next year.

 

Do you somehow feel like this has not been your year, like, there’s been no bumper harvest to warrant any celebrations, and you would rather have the next year begin sooner than later? Don’t let this give you any feelings of frustrations, hopelessness, or despair, and neither should you get infuriated by the excitement of others, who probably made better use of opportunities coming their way. For you it’s a call to action, like, use the moment to plan ahead, for the coming year. If you’re seriously in the mood to influence a better life experience in the next year, and going forward in life, then the next Episode 14 of the Restructure Your Life Podcast has some insightful take home for you to consider.

 

Don’t let yourself be discouraged by a non-eventful festive season. Instead, show some gratitude for each day you get offered, by listening to the episode to make some value picks and get the most out of this period. Listen now or just download to listen on the go and make your days count.

                                                                                                               

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Do you ever pay attention and consider the extent of your journey of life, from since where it started, whether or not you’ve truly made the most out of each moment provided? That life is short, and we only have a moment in this form on Earth, is something many would consider obvious. You’ll probably agree with me also that the idea of life being thought of as short stems from our desire to live a much longer and fulfilling experience. In other words, you and I, each expect to go the distance in our experience of life on Earth.

 

If you hold the same views but somehow feel like your moment hasn’t yielded much to celebrate about, it may well be that you’re your own obstacle in many ways. You could be killing your living time by simply remaining ignorant of the fact that you actually have a limited moment, which itself is a call-to-action for you to make each moment count. However, that lack of attentive presence to remain mindful of your every moment means there’s never any real sense of urgency to touch base with your journey of life. Not just that, but the world you live in also has so much happening before you, enough to distract you from what matters most, though it may not seem like a distraction at all because it feels good. This is when you’re just maybe a spectator and enjoying the good that others are making possible, in their own journeys of life, while yours isn’t making any headways.

 

A common practice is to keep abreast with whatever is trending in life, and in a way totally divert attention from what’s likely to advance your course, and worse still nurture that greatest thief of time called procrastination. I think we’ve all come across many of such people who seem to have all the time in the world to do anything else except what they truly need to do to advance their lives. Maybe you’re one of those who, without due regard for what truly matters to advance their lives, will choose to follow political debates religiously and endlessly, or siphon their critical resources in support of some sporting acts, or spend unreasonably long hours hooked on social media etc., but all this for no clear and definitive outcomes to influence a better future for themselves.

 

If you find that maybe in your life you’ve developed some kind of defensive mechanism against why you just can’t act now to get your life advancing, know that soon, before you notice, there’ll be no time left for your journey. Make effort to catch yourself repeating endlessly, and never followed by any action, phrases like “my time is coming”, or “I’ll do this next time”, or “someday will be some day”, which only serves to strengthen the habit for procrastination.

 

Are you in anyway caught up in such a defensive cage, which is really costing you much of your living time? Do you have any desire to not kill time, by engaging in anything but what matters most to advance your life, and instead live your moment fully and consciously so? If you’ve answered yes then the next Episode 13 of the Restructure Your Life Podcast is all you need to create a breakthrough, by establishing a focal point of your life.

 

Listen to the episode now or just download to listen on the go and begin to add another dimension into your life.

If you have to aim high all the time, in all you do and want, but have no consideration at all about the relevance of your readiness to make the transition, you’ll soon run out of targets to aim at and achieve. We all are familiar with the saying “you can’t walk before you crawl” or “you can’t sprint before you run”, and all these pointing to the need to master some basic and foundational know-how, before you can expect to make some advancement in life. You and I have witnessed this clearly in others, even though we may not be aware of our own experiences of it.

 

It's common practice for most to overlook their readiness to advance to a greater level of the experience of life, and for that end up not doing well to achieve the success they want. This is just as a little kid may decide to walk, or even run, on their first success at standing upright, which we all know can be catastrophic. Fortunately, for little kids the desire to get up from a stumble and try again is hugely irresistible, because of the excitement of a new discovery that lets them stand and move around quicker than when crawling. For an adult person though, like you and me, at which level we have a thing called Ego, we often crumble after a stumble, and rarely manage to get up and try again.

 

Clearly, to learn and master the basic and foundational skills of mobility is the most critical step any growing kid must undertake, if they are to ready themselves for the next level of an advanced stage of human life. Bear in mind that such skills of mobility, once attained, become a life-long necessity, and are not only relevant during the early stages of child growth. The same is true for the basic lessons we get exposed to at an early stage of our lives, particularly at schools.

 

One of the greater challenges that faces human development, and specifically at the individual level, is that when it comes to the system of education, we tend to overly lean on modern and sophisticated ways. Then when you get stuck the tendency is to also seek for quick and sophisticated solutions, rather than getting back to basics and try over again, like in the case of a little kid stumbling. This inability to see a connection between early life lessons, which essentially provide a foundation to any future success, is the cause of much lack in advancement, in the lives of many.

 

Maybe you’re one of those who has been aiming high and hoping to yield greatly from your higher educational qualifications, for example, but you’ve since missed most of your targets. If you are wondering how exactly you can fall-back on your early educational lessons to give your life a breakthrough in advancement, Episode 12 of the Restructure Your Life Podcast is the greatest reminder you need to hear.

 

Interesting? Interested maybe? Listen to the episode now or just download to listen on the go at a more convenient moment for you.

That life is tough is simply stating the obvious, and if you have to bother yourself too much about it than find a way to get yourself involved, you’ll be inviting procrastination into your mental space. One thing that separates people who are successful in life and those who tend to be perennial strugglers, is that the former believes so much in their natural abilities and inner power to make things happen for them, while the latter tend to give away their power by believing that in life there are such things as “the chosen few”.

 

Whereas the typical perennial strugglers would simply wait for orders, ideas, suggestions, or directions from those others considered in the know, success-oriented people on the other hand usually have one or more things already in their minds to try out and get their lives moving forward. This tendency to overly rely on others on matters of your own life creates stagnation as you wait endlessly for something you have no control over. Truth be told, if you can’t get control of your own life, but instead just live it up to chance or others, you’ll never experience any sense of effective living throughout your entire moment here on earth. If you allow this to happen, then you’ll have missed the whole trip of human life on this great planet.

 

Nature is configured in such a way that every process has a role to play, and as well some outcomes to yield. That means you too, being natural, are designed to operate in a similar manner. You must see in yourself a complete functional human being, driven by the same power that drives all other natural processes. The only thing you need to figure out is how to utilise the bountiful supply of natural power to create outcomes that supports and meet life desires. This literally means having to find out what you were meant to do here in life. Like, what role are you here to play to support human life?

 

So, if you can identify a clear role that suits your deepest interests and preferences, which can contribute significantly to enhance life in some way, then your days of procrastination and looking up to others to cater for your needs would be over. You’ll instantly cease to be a perennial struggler as finding your preferred life role is only a step away from uncovering your purpose for being. The latter then becomes your natural drive to success and overall effective living.

 

To be effective in living life demands that you engage in what matters most to you, so the outcomes therefrom can generate a lasting sense of fulfilment. If you have been feeling uncertain about how you can add clarity and meaning in your life, and as well spark some inner urge and desire to proactively get involved, then this Episode, 11, of the Restructure Your Life Podcast is your best starting point.

 

Listen now to the podcast and begin to make your life feel like a meaningful and worthy venture here on Earth.