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Your Problems Won't Cease With Gratitude, But You Will Understand You Have A Big Life To Live

Balancing life

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It's our common habit to think incessantly about the things we don't have while pretty much ignoring what we possess.

It's not that problems will cease to exist if we count our blessings, but our focus will rather become things that are still within our control. You will still need to work for your dreams, your aims, and things to buy, but you will do it with a shift in mindset where your problems will be a tiny part of your life while you live your life to your fullest.

Experiencing this existence, I understood one thing: with living, there will be things to solve, things that could not be solved, and things that don't need to be solved. Some businesses aren't our business; our business is not other people's business. What it means is simple: we should focus on things that matter, matter to our core existence, and that add meaning to life.

So, the world will have to do a lot of something, but it shouldn't concern us. For instance, I often tell my mother to stop worrying about what is happening around in another corner of the world, not because it's not the cause of concern, but rather because it should not be her concern. Her concern should be…