How your Lifestyle is the Innate You?

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How Your Lifestyle Is The Innate You
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• The quality of our lives determines how happy and
  contentful we feel about ourselves and the
  quality of our life largely depends on the
  lifestyle we adopt. Being mindful of the
  lifestyle we have is very essential for us to
  know where we are and where we are headed. A
  healthy lifestyle is detrimental in one's overall
  happiness and success in life. Success can mean
  different to different individuals.
• Life is but an accumulation of experiences
• However, a sense of contentment and fulfilment
  one can draw from their success depends on
  lifestyle. As rightly put by the famous proverb -
  Life is but an accumulation of experiences. What
  we choose to experience and what we choose to not
  experience is a decision that we make based on
  our lifestyle and hence, the quality of our
  lifestyle truly defines the quality of our lives!
  Your Lifestyle is at the core, the Innate You!
  That's why it is so important to be mindful of
  the lifestyle we are following and to also assess
  it from time to time.
• What is "Lifestyle"? How do we develop a
  "Lifestyle"? Find your answers to these questions
  and more in this write-up.

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• What does "Lifestyle" mean?
• In layman terms, Lifestyle simply means the way
  an individual lives his or her life. Lifestyle is
  opinions, interests, behaviours, thinking
  patterns and behavioural orientation of an
  individual. Put it simply, the way or style of
  living is referred to as one's lifestyle. In
  essence, one's lifestyle is a combination of
  several tangible and intangible factors.
• Tangible factors influencing lifestyle
• Tangible factors refer to the demographic and
  geographical factors that contribute to a
  person's lifestyle. For example People living in
  rural areas of the country are bound to have a
  different lifestyle as compared to living in the
  suburbs or the urban counterparts. Such tangible
  factors contribute to one's lifestyle for the
  most part of it - for instance people living in
  the rural areas are early to bed and early to
  rise as opposed to the people living in the urban
  metros who generally go to sleep during the late
  night hours.

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• Intangible factors influencing lifestyle
• On the other hand, the intangible factors are
  comprised of the psychological contributing
  factors like one's belief systems, philosophies,
  personal values, preferences, prejudices,
  opinions and outlooks. These are formed based on
  the surrounding environments where an individual
  has been brought up in and the people who've
  raised them.
• For instance Children brought up in the Western
  part of the world are more exposed to the ideas
  of liberalism than the ones that are brought up
  in the Eastern parts. Additionally, as an
  individual grows up to being an adult, he or she
  realize their identity and choose the belief
  systems and values they want to stand and abide
  by. Lifestyle, therefore is a combination of both
  these aspects and it largely differ from one
  individual to another although it might appear to
  be the same on the outlook.

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• How do we develop a "lifestyle"?
• For the most part of it, we develop our lifestyle
  fundamentally from the environment we're
  surrounded with. Parents undoubtedly become our
  first teachers and we tend to pick up our habits,
  routines, eating patterns, sleeping patterns,
  importance we give to health, leisure, art and
  philosophy and everything in between from our
  families.
• Later on, as a child turns into an adolescent and
  later into an adult - he or she picks up their
  own preference of lifestyles depending upon one's
  individual life experiences.
• How our lifestyle is expressed in our work,
  leisure, health, attitudes, opinions, motivations
  and everything in between...
• Our Lifestyle typically roots from the core
  beliefs and philosophies we have and develop over
  time. In essence, lifestyle is more of dynamic
  nature and not a static one because our beliefs
  and philosophies keep changing and evolving over
  time, as we grow up and we we're more exposed to
  different kinds of environments.

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• Our work is an extension of our own mind
• Our lifestyle is clearly and evidently reflected
  upon on our work style and ethics. Our work is at
  the end of the day, an extension of our own mind
  and thus our lifestyle is bound to be reflected
  and expressed in and through our work. For
  instance If a person follows a "Green Lifestyle"
  which means adopting living patterns that
  minimize our ecological footprints, he or she
  will strive to cut down on plastic usage at home
  and at work and will try to find ways to reuse
  and recycle things at work. Similarly, a person
  who follows a "Taoist Lifestyle" which means
  living in an absolute harmony with nature and
  natural order, will try to minimize arguments and
  misunderstandings at work and strives to promote
  an uninterrupted workplace ethics, creating work
  environments that hurts none and treats everyone
  equally.

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• Our macro and micro day-to-day activities are
  influenced by our lifestyle
• examples evidently draw out how one's Lifestyle
  reflects in one's work. But in essence however,
  it goes way beyond this point and everything that
  we do - both at macro and micro levels are
  innately influenced by our lifestyle. What we do
  in our leisure time for example defines our
  affinity towards hobbies, art and philosophies.
  Someone who believes deeply in art would love to
  spend their leisure doing things that put their
  creativity to test. They're generally seen making
  things - from cooking, to painting, to crafts and
  DIYs to composing music and so on. Similarly,
  someone who is passionate about philosophy will
  be seen generally spending their time with books,
  or having conversations with people and so on.
• Similarly, every other aspect of our lives -
  right from how we behave, our activities,
  interests, attitudes, opinions, values to more
  niched down parameters of life like our economic
  decisions, relationships, motivations, needs and
  wants are all manifestations of our lifestyle and
  an expression and extension of the same. Here are
  some instances that explains the same in brief

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• People living in rural areas might not spend
  their hard earned money on travel and adventure
  as compared to their counterparts living in the
  urban areas who would love to pay higher prices
  in exchange of a great experience.
• People who believe in "Minimalistic Lifestyle"
  will try to cut down unnecessary costs in buying
  things that do not serve a fulfilled purpose.
  Likewise, they would not value hanging out with a
  large bunch of friends every weekend at an
  expensive restaurant as much as they would value
  hanging out with a close and an intimate circle
  of friends doing more simple things. Their idea
  of fun therefore is defined by their choice of
  lifestyle.
• People who follow a "Sophisticated Lifestyle"
  would love to fill their days with various
  activities that give them an elite experience -
  from working at great corporate spaces, to
  indulging in sports like swimming or badminton,
  and indulging in recreational activities like
  fancy spas and massages. Their idea of how their
  day should look like stems from their lifestyle
  choice of keeping it as modernistic and
  sophisticated as possible.

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• These are just a few examples that demonstrate
  how one's Lifestyle is expressed thoroughly in
  every aspect of life - from recreation to work to
  relationships and economic or financial
  decisions. Creating a life that you want starts
  from creating a lifestyle plan that suits the
  kind of life you wish to live and sticking to
  this lifestyle plan. It might be necessary
  sometimes to make changes to one's lifestyle in
  order to ensure we're headed where we want to and
  taking time to do this at regular intervals pays
  off so much in the long run! At the end of the
  day, our lifestyle is by large the part and
  parcel of who we are and thus - Your Lifestyle is
  truly the Innate You!

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