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How to Improve Your Quality of Life
B How to Improve Your Quality of Life
It can be challenging to assess your values when you’re considering a change, but you have the power of choice. Only you can decide how you feel about your lifestyle and if there are things you want to change or improve. Consider the following seven key areas for improving your quality of life. Any or all of them may be greatly enhanced by a positive change in your world view: Family, Community, Nature, Health, Education, Fine Arts, and Spirituality.
1 Your Family
Although the quality of family life ranges anywhere from wonderful to disastrous, everyone has a family of some kind. The big question is: what’s more important—the individual or the family group? The answer isn’t simple.
Each family member is unique and entitled to individual consideration. No set of rules or circumstances is perfect for everyone. On the other hand, no family member is an island. Members must cooperate to thrive, and even survive in a world where competition and the law of the jungle can rule—there is strength in numbers.
Various forces in modern culture are working to redefine the traditional biological or nuclear family and family values. It’s essential you take the time
to identify and understand what’s most important to you and your family. It’s too easy to get caught up in a struggle to survive and spend the majority of your time, energy, and resources maintaining and paying for your home, cars, food, and all the things that make up your lifestyle.
Step back and take stock of your family’s quality of life. Briefly answer these questions from your current view point.
1. Describe your family:
“Modern families don’t seem to worry about the wolf at the door anymore. They just feed him on installments.”
~ Anonymous
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