THE MONK WHO CAN’T SELL HİS PORSCHE

Read this, your life will change. I’m telling to you specially the formula of guaranteed life change…

Most of you should have read the book “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”.

Me too, I have an enlightenment in these days. But it’s not enough, I want to be a monk.

I thought, if one can be a monk by sellin its car, I would sell my Porsche too!

But there isn’t any buyer yet.

My wisdom will wait a little, it’s obvious, the market is bad.

You have probably read this or similar many books. Thinking to change your life.

Craps in 10 questions, 10 ways of junk, change your life with 10 things etc.

Then I thought and decided to share my “Top Ten” with you. Read it and change your life:

1- Make a Decision!

It isn’t important what it is. Just make a decision and do it.

Hard or easy, it doesn’t metter. Make a decision!

Then lean back and enjoy your decision. Once you have made a decision, you will be addicted to deciding.

If you can’t make a decision, the others will decide for you. You will live their decisions.

It’s your choice.

2- Keep healthy your mind!

Probably, this is the only subject that I don’t agree with Atatürk (Founder of Turkish Republic)

What did he say?

“Healthy mind exists in healthy body”.

No. May be it was true at that time.

I’m changing it.

“Healthy body exists in healthy mind”.

If your mind is healthy, your body will be healthy too. You can do your sports and your diet too if you wish.

You will be happy if your mind is healthy. Happiness cures your body.

If your mind isn’t healthy, you would only go to shopping for being happy.

I mean, if you want to change your life, you should start with your mind.

3- Become adapted!

Certainly, the conditions change everyday. Become adapted to them.

Or you will be exhausted.

There is a good saying:

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference”

That’s why I say become adapted.

There are a few things that you can change in your life. Accept it, become adapted to the things that you couldn’t change.

It will make you feel better, you will be relaxed.

4- Don’t oppress, relax!

Not the things that you insist on or you work on it constantly but the things that you wish deeply without noticing it, would be realize.

You are oppresing life with your norms. If this happens, that would be like this, then it should be like that.

If it doesn’t happen, then comes nervous breakdowns, frustrations…

Relax.

As said John Lennon:

“Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans”

5- Slow down even stop some times!

I have a whole writing about this subject. I advise you to read it.

click here to read.

6- Be modest!

Humans are creatures with highly egos. You have to control your ego.

Ego makes you stressed. If your ego is high, you wouldn’t want to make mistakes. You forces your-self everytime.

You will live your ego not your life.

If you become modest, you would be relaxed. You are powerful too when you are modest. The enjoy of noticing your power and modesty is different.

Try it, you will enjoy it.

Power and ego are honorable, power and modesty are honorable and lovable.

When your power ends one day, your ego will end too but your modesty will stay with you all your life.

7- Redefine your-self!

You live with your learnings. They all may be true and good.

But interrogate them. May be you can find better and more suitable things for you.

Format your-self some times. Redefine your-self.

Patterns give pain and push you.

Get clear of leaned patterns. If you can’t live without patterns, create your own patterns.

Don’t live others’ patterns and lives…

8- Be brave!

May be this should be the first rule.

Napoleon called the commander who caused to lose the war and asked:

. Why did you lose the war?

. There are 10 resons sir. First, we have run out gunpowder.

. Ok. Stop there. You shouldn’t say the others.

Your gunpowder is your courage.

If you are not brave, the others are useless. Don’t even try.

Neither 10 craps nor 10 junks would save your life.

9- Know what you want and where to leave everything when it’s time!

If you don’t know what you want you will struggle.

Again a motto that I like.

“ One who doesn’t know what it is looking for, wouldn’t understand what it found”.

You can’t be happy if don’t know what you want.

When you get what you want, you should know to leave it when it’s necessary, know how to give up.

Don’t forget that everything has an end.

If you don’t leave it, you would be forced to leave.

That’s more painful.

Know to leave by your-self.

To be able to leave is a virtue.

10- Find your own “Top Ten”

Well, all right, you have read another’s top ten again.

Now, go and find your own top ten. Mine won’t work for you.

My advise: Mix the 10. and 8. items, that’s the formula of a happy life!

By the way, my Porsche is still for sale.

From a monk, few driven.

Devrim Ziya Tavil

Paris, 23.02.2016