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Welcome to the Blaising View blog, where I share treasures I find to enrich your life now.

How Do You Know You’re Living Your Best Life?

What does living your best life really mean?

Pleasure? Success? Money? Purpose? Faith?

Oscar Wilde, Aristotle, Buddha and Jesus offered radically different answers.

Living your best life
What makes a life worth living?/Unsplash

It’s a question people have wrestled with for centuries.

The most popular humanities course at Yale University explores this in a class entitled, “Life Worth Living.”  Multiple professors teach it.

They compare how the great philosophies answer these questions.

  • What makes a life worth living?
  • What is worth chasing?
  • Are the things we want really worth having?
  • How do we know if we’re headed toward a flourishing life?

How you answer may determine whether you look back on life with satisfaction or regret.

But first, there’s another question.

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How Do You Know You’re Living Your Best Life?

How vitamin D wipes out depression and other nasty diseases

Vitamin D has the potential to wipe out depression, autoimmune disorders and seasonal viruses.

Depression and vitamin D
Morning coffee-walk erases demons and disease/Steve Blaising/University Park, TX

Load up on this vitamin with your coffee daily and make your risks go away.

Vitamin D and depression

My last physical, the doctor said my vitamin D level was too low.

I was shocked because I drink milk all the time.

“You should really consider spending 3-4 hours per week in the sun.”

I replied, “Seriously?  What about skin cancer doc?”

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Experience True Bliss: Embrace the Transformative Power of Enough

Bliss eludes many because they have not discovered what backup singers know.

Backup singers in bliss happier than a weasel

The 2013 documentary, 20 Feet from Stardom, tracks why backup singers are happier than ones in the spotlight.

At first, one may believe these folks didn’t “make it” even though their talent is amazing.  That, somehow, work in the background is less than work in the limelight. 

But these marvelous singers show how “enough” is the liberating key for true bliss.

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Experience True Bliss: Embrace the Transformative Power of Enough

Light-up faith so it doesn’t fail when everything falls apart

Faith that sails through any crisis needs a lighthouse in the darkness.

Faith that won't fail

Darkness assaults your faith and hope daily.

  • Hope falls
  • Emotions flail
  • Strength fades

But faith keeps us on course if it has a lighthouse.

Three anchors steady a faith that won’t fail.

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Light-up faith so it doesn’t fail when everything falls apart