lifestyle design

been so free at work that i had to squeeze things out to google. came upon some websites talking about lifestyle design.

wiki definition:

• Lifestyle Design is the design of one's ideal lifestyle, especially an unconventional one, providing good opportunities for personal growth, leisure and adventure. Detailed methods include: career planning, entrepreneurship and travel.

simply it means designing your own lifestyle to what u really want. that includes dreams and passions that most ppl think is impossible to achieve because in reality we will succumb to practicality and bread and butter issues. yet more and more ppl are learning how to achieve it without compromising on practicality sense. the most important thing is to let your choices define the way u live, not the society. and to do this you have to of course be very conscious of what u can do, what u want, what u don't want and then come up w a concrete plan for it.

a choice towards lifestyle design can be as simple as "eating healthier". something that most ppl, esp weight-conscious but dieting-failure cases like me always make a decision to do from time to time but never really achieve because excuses like practicality issues(canteen food at work, fast food with friends etc) act as stumbling factors in our way.

after working in a typical engineering office for 12 weeks, this article just seem so true and i can literally foresee myself like this upon graduation and in my first job (if it were to be a engineering one)

www.lifeofjustin.com/office-jobs-the-tipping-point-124/

btw it just happens that the author is justin too. did no particular search on that.lol

with the nbs ppl graduating soon, it just seems so much important to me now that i figure out what i really want come next yr june. i want to clear my study loan debt, i want to be financially contributive to my family and i want enough savings to build a family in the future. but i also want mornings where i dont dread going to work, weekdays when i dont spend my time staring at the clock hoping its 530pm soon, earning money and enjoying it at the same time and be a happy person 24/7 round instead of only during the weekends. and weighing and trying to balancing all that, practical vs ideal, i need a PLAN. real PLAN.

and i am determined to spend this whole yr ahead thinking about it properly :) my ideal lifestyle need not be extravagant, but it should be a pleasant one, which i believe is the minimum for everyone :)