Every life is based upon a simple philosophy.

Mine is no exception.

I seek fairness, freedom, wisdom, equality, justice, love and happiness. I seek to communicate and create.

It seems strange to think that your whole reason for being can be summed up in a few words but it can. This is what some would call – my mission statement. Everything I do stems from this core of aspirations.

I am driven.

There are many philosophies that abound in the people around us. Most people are not even aware that they have a simple philosophy, but they do.

Some feel their philosophy is foisted upon them by circumstances – but it isn’t. We all choose the philosophy we select to live by. We all have the ability to change it if we wish.

Here are a selection of philosophies people choose to live by:

To set out to gain wealth. To work hard for profit. To save and accrue wealth. To live for money, invest in money, amass a fortune, purchase the status symbols and trappings and bask in the midst of the fortune we have gained.

To seek power and do whatever it takes to become powerful. To threaten, connive, lie, cheat and bribe your way to the top. To have others bow and scrape. To order others about and do whatever takes your whim. To be the biggest most feared and powerful around.

To seek sex. To make oneself attractive and learn the art of seduction. To spend your life enticing, chasing and seducing and have a tally-stick of conquests.

To give reign to hatred and seek revenge. To connive, conspire and destroy those who you would blame.

To be cool.

To dedicate your life to religion – to worship, purify, perform ritual and prayer in the hope of attaining heaven and communing with a deity.

To create music, art, dance……………..

To seek someone to love, to fall helplessly in love, have children, provide a safe home with security and live happily ever-after.

Notoriety.

To adore nature, plants and living creatures. To want to surround yourself with the natural world and marvel at the beauty and majesty of living plants and creatures. To want to conserve, protect and support them.

To be noticed, live in the public eye, be admired and gain celebrity.

To live a life of greed and gluttony in which every sense and desire is sated. To eat, drink, purchase, indulge and do everything to excess, until you can consume no more and are replete.

To enjoy a past-time – cycling, skate-boarding, guitar……….

To be the best in a sport, a game or a profession and drive oneself relentlessly to achieve more for its own sake. To be admired by other professionals, Achieve the pinnacle and achieve the accolades.

To immerse yourself in culture and appreciate all the finer nuance of sophistication.

To follow another, a cause or a person and subordinate all that you do to them.

To develop the perfect body and seek to perfect each contour, muscle and feature with cosmetic surgery, drug regimes, exercise and make-up.

To have the easy life where you have everything you want without effort. It is one lottery card away, one perfect crime.

To altruistically dedicate your life to helping others less fortunate and save lives and make their hell more bearable.

To wish to escape from reality and explore the possibilities of all sensations.

To live the easy life, lie back and let it all go by.

To pit yourself against challenges and overcome them.

These are merely a sample. We all have our personal combinations that are our goals and drivers. Some of these philosophies are empty, some pipe-dreams and some positively destructive. Some we delude ourselves with.

If you stand back and analyse your motivation you can see that the philosophy you chose leads you through life by the nose.