Good Lifestyle

Humans have existed for hundreds of thousands of years, and yet we have still not answered one of the most crucial questions of existence: how can we make the most of our brief time on this Great planet?

One thing everyone seems to be able to agree is the need to have a good balance work / life of life. Since the Americans, to say the least, are not the best to reach this kind of balance, it has become fashionable to look at other inspiration crops. Last year, everything was abouthygion (pronounced Hoo-Gah), Danish term as the Oxford dictionarydescribed as "Costume quality and comfortable conviviality that causes a feeling of contentment or well-being."

In its most basic way, this Scandinavian import encourages you to optimize your existential happiness by taking pleasure in small comfortable pleasures: drinking a cup of freshly brewed coffee, carrying cashmere socks by a cold day, drinking hot wine at the Fireplace while watching the snow while watching the snow fall outside your window, etc.

As nice as it sounds and it was popular, many people who really tried the hygge approach complainedthat it drove them crazy, as they stressed the question of whether they had or not extinguished the candles they lit in their room and that the focus on the trend on the consumption of bakery products actually fat, a movement that is definitely one-hygge. Not to mention that, while being comfortable, it's quite easy in autumn and winter, it's not just as easy to reach in the sonor of summer and a philosophy of life that only works 6 months a year is not ideal.

Maybe that's why the last trend of this fall of living his best life isIkigai (Pronounce Eck-ee-Guy): A philosophy of Japanese life that means "reason to be" (a bit like the Frenchpurpose) If you have not heard yet, do not worry. We gathered everything you need to know about it here.And for great more advice on the life of your best life,am we on facebook andSign up for our newsletter now.

In Japanese culture, each person has his own special Ikigai, but you need a search for the soul to determine what it is. Practically speaking, Ikigai is defined as the only real thing in your life that makes it lived. It is a passion or activity, and the way to live up to Ikigai is to engage in this thing as possible. (So, if your Ikigai fishing, then fishing as much as you can. If you walk your dog, so do that as much as you can. If you build complicated computer software, then do that.)

The term itself comes from the two-term compound: here, which means that life and gay, meaning of value and goes back to the Heian period (794 to 1185). In a 2001 research document on Ikigai, co-authorAkihiro Hasegawa, says that "Cheerfulcomes from the wordKai("Shell" in Japanese) who have been judged very precious and from there, Ikigai derived as a word that means "value in life".

InA TED conversation 2013, authorDan Buettner Ikigai credited with the reason the Japanese live as long as they do. Buettner has traveled the world to study the communities in which people live the longest areas it designates as "blue zones" - and revealed their secrets in its resulting book,Blue areas: lessons on the longer life of people who have lived the longest. In the conversation, Buettner described Okinawa, a Japanese island away from the East China Sea, like "zero land for longevity" because of the abnormal number of people living to be 100.

Although a lot of Japanese longevity can be attributed to a plant-based diet and respect for the elderly, Buettner also puts a lot of weight on the fact that Okinawans do not even have a word for "retirement" . Instead, they have Ikigai, which he describes as "the reason to get up in the morning".

For one of the residents, a mixed martial artist, his Ikigai was karate. For a 102-year-old woman, she held her grand little granddaughter in her arms. Buettner explained that when asked, "What is your Ikigai?" Each resident he knew the answer immediately.

Fortunately, it does not require you to spend a month looking for your soul in a Tibetan monastery (although it certainly does not hurt!). Instead, Buettner simply suggests to make three lists: one who details your values, another who identifies the things you are good, and another who describes what you like to do. The quality that overlapping in all these lists is your Ikigai.

For me, my Ikigai is writing without a doubt, and certainly it seems that the key to living a life filled Ikigai-works a job that you passionate, as opposed to something that brings you a lot of money and power. And even,2010 in a 2000 Japanese men survey and womenOnly 31% of people called their jobs as their Ikigai.

So, if you do not think your job is your Ikigai but do not want to drop either, do not worry! Maybe travel with the money you do it is your Ikigai. Or maybe go home to your wife and children and eat dinner with them after a long day.

And if you do the three lists and do not find a quality overlapping, it simply means that you need to try new things. Maybe yoga will be your Ikigai. Or scuba diving. Or drink good wine. Or, maybe, just maybe, something hygge.

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