6 Essential Elements of Life

A blog around the basic building blocks of life.

Rijul Singh Malik
Life Cafe
6 min readJul 15, 2022

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Photo by Sarah Dorweiler on Unsplash

1. What is the meaning of life?

Everyone wants to know the meaning of life. Why are we here? What is our purpose? Is there more to life than the day-to-day? The truth is, these questions don’t have a single answer. If you search for the meaning of life on the internet, you’ll find lots of random answers, but no one really knows what the ultimate purpose is.

Your life is your own journey, and your path is your own choice. No one can tell you what your life should be, what you should do with it, or how you should spend it. The meaning of your life is whatever you choose to make it. It’s all up to you. You can choose to be whoever you want to be. The list is limitless. You can be a great leader, a great scientist, a great teacher, a great artist, a great parent, a great friend. It’s all up to you.

2.How to determine your life purpose?

The best way to find purpose in life is to create a list of your passions and then find a way to align them with your everyday life. Your passions are the things that you’re most excited by, the things that make you feel most alive. They are what drive you, and they are what you’ll naturally fall into doing. The way that you can align them with your everyday life is to simply do them. If you want to make money doing what you love, you should start a business doing it.

To live a happy and meaningful life, you must work toward a definite goal. Determine what you want to fulfill in your life, no matter how big or small. By knowing what you want, you can determine what you need to do to achieve it. Goals are generally divided into short-term, mid-term and long-term goals. For example, your short-term goal may be to get a job. Your mid-term goal might be to get a new job.

Your long-term goal might be to buy a car. Short-term goals are usually easily attainable within a certain period of time, usually a few weeks to a few months. Mid-term goals usually take up to a year to achieve. Long-term goals may take several years to achieve. If you have an idea of what you want to achieve, you need to identify what is holding you back. This will help you determine how long it will take to achieve your goal.

3. How to discover your life purpose?

The first question that comes to mind is: “I have a life purpose?”. Yes, you do! And it is up to you to discover it. Without a purpose in life, you will never be able to reach your full potential. Everyone has a life purpose. It is just a matter of discovering it. It can be hard to figure out your life purpose when you are always busy working at a monotonous job. But you have to remember that you are living your life for a reason. You are here for a reason. There is a reason for everything.

Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass. It is about learning how to dance in the rain. When you are trying to figure out your life purpose, you have to ask yourself a few questions. The most important of them is: why am I alive? What is my reason for being here? If you look deep inside of you, you will find the answers. Life is full of questions, and it is our duty to find the answers.

Life is a journey, with many twists and turns, but the one thing that remains constant is the need for a purpose. Finding your life purpose is a difficult process, but it is one that can make you happier. If you know your purpose in life, you can improve your life and the lives of those around you as you strive toward achieving it. You may not know where you’re going, but if you know why you’re going, you’ll end up somewhere wonderful.

4. How to track your life mission?

Life mission statements are the driving force behind everything we do. When used properly, these statements can help us make better decisions and provide a clearer direction on where we are headed. This helps us to be more conscious of our lives and to make more conscious choices. When you make a life mission statement you are essentially creating your own set of guiding principles. Some people call it a life purpose, some call it an ideal, some call it a life vision, but it all comes down to the same thing. This is why it is so important to have a clear idea of what you want to do with your life. It is a statement that you write down and carry around with you. You can carry a physical copy of your statement or you can carry it in your heart and mind.

What is a life mission or life purpose? It’s essentially the end goal of your life. What do you want to accomplish? What do you want your legacy to be? It’s hard to track your life mission because it’s not something that you’re always working toward. It’s something that you’re working toward all the time, but never getting closer to. But if you think about it, you can begin to chart your life mission by answering two simple questions.

First, what do you want to do with your life? Second, what kind of person do you want to be? For example, maybe you want to travel the world and be the best travel blogger you can be. Maybe you want to collect all the countries’ flags so that you can be the ultimate world traveler. Maybe you want to be a philanthropist and help people. Maybe you want to be the best parent you can be. Maybe you want to write a novel. Maybe you want to be the best boss ever. Maybe you want to be the best musician ever. Maybe you want to be the first person in space. Maybe you want to be the President or Prime Minister.

5. How to focus on pursuing your passions?

The question was posed to me recently: “How do you get from a job you hate to a career you love?” I was at a coffee shop with a friend, and we were discussing our career goals and life aspirations. I was honest with the woman who posed the question to me. “I’m not sure if I’ve found my passion,” I said. “I feel like I’m just floating along in my career. I want to feel like I’m contributing to something meaningful, but I’m not sure what my passion is.”

Everybody has dreams and passions, but we often don’t take the steps to pursue them. We’re too busy going to school and then working a 9-to-5 job, and we just don’t know how to make time for the things that really matter. If you want to find success in life, you have to be able to figure out a way to work on your passions. This can be difficult if you have a full-time job and a family, but it’s possible. If you want to figure out how to pursue your passions, you have to start by defining your dreams. What do you want to do with your life? Defining your dreams is the first step to pursuing them.

6. What is self-compassion?

Self-compassion is the ability to be kind and forgiving of yourself. It is a skill that you can develop, and it’s about treating yourself with the same kindness and compassion you would treat your best friend. There are three core elements to self-compassion. The first is self-kindness — being gentle, understanding and forgiving with yourself in difficult times. The second is being mindful — being aware of your present experience with openness and curiosity, rather than judging yourself. The third is common humanity — recognizing that suffering is part of the shared human experience, rather than feeling isolated in your pain.

Self-compassion is a particularly helpful kind of self-care. The concept of self-compassion is based on the idea that self-kindness is the key to emotional health. At the core of self-compassion is the belief that suffering is part of the shared human experience. We all experience pain and suffering, and it’s not possible to avoid it. The key is to treat ourselves kindly when we’re going through it. One way to be kind to yourself is to focus on your common humanity.

Conclusion:

You are unique in this world, your passions and life mission is equally unique.

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Rijul Singh Malik
Life Cafe

MS Data science @UC IRVINE | Data Scientist | Blogger | Content Creator | Avid Traveller