Live Life Well

Consider three things needed to live life well - commitment, action, and reflection.

You need to understand what is important to you - what you are willing to commit to.  What inspires you.  What you are devoted to.

You have to act.  Action consistent with your commitment is best, is aligned with your life.  Action can be effective, or ineffective, skillful or unskillful.  Skillful action will support your commitments.

Reflection provides the feedback loop to keep your actions aligned with what matters to you.  By paying attention to the results of your actions, you learn from them, so that future actions become even more skillful, more effective.

Reflection is also directed at your commitment.  You may have thought something was very important to you, that it deserved your dedication and commitment.  With more experience, and with discerning, honest reflection, you may find it less worthy of your time, your life's energy, leading to a new, more powerful commitment.

Do not be frozen because you aren't certain of your commitments, or the skill of your action.  Commit to the highest and best thing that you can, and act as skillfully as you can.  But don't be attached to either your commitment or the results of your action.  With discerning reflection, you can change, adapt, grow.  You can commit to better things, you can act more skillfully.

Through this process you live a life of purpose and accomplishment, your actions aligned to the direction of your inner self.