I spend a lot of time with young people and they often ask me for advice as they begin their journey into #life and the #future. Here are five #ideas worth us all thinking about as we begin our #journey into #2018. 👇📝👍 pic.twitter.com/JajZkVRpf1— Rabbi Sacks (@rabbisacks) 31 December 2017
(1) The first idea is to #dream. Seemingly the least practical activity turns out to be the most practical, and most often left undone. I know people who spend months planning a holiday but very little time planning a life.— Rabbi Sacks (@rabbisacks) 31 December 2017
Imagine setting out on a journey without deciding where you are going to. However fast you travel, you will never reach your destination because you never decided where you want to be. In fact, the faster you travel, the more lost you will become.— Rabbi Sacks (@rabbisacks) 31 December 2017
Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home.— Rabbi Sacks (@rabbisacks) 31 December 2017
(2) The second idea is to follow your #passion. Nothing — not wealth, success, accolades or fame — justifies spending a lifetime doing things you don’t enjoy.— Rabbi Sacks (@rabbisacks) 31 December 2017
I have seen too many people enter careers to earn money to give their partners and children everything they want, only to lose their partners and become estranged from their children because they never had time for them.— Rabbi Sacks (@rabbisacks) 31 December 2017
People who follow their passion tend to lead blessed lives. Happy in what they do, they tend to spread happiness to those whose lives they touch. That is a life worth living.— Rabbi Sacks (@rabbisacks) 31 December 2017
(3) The third idea is to hear the call. I learnt from the psychotherapist who survived Auschwitz, Viktor Frankl, who used to say: Don’t ask what you want from #life. Ask what life wants from you.— Rabbi Sacks (@rabbisacks) 31 December 2017
The great lives are ones where people heard a call, had a sense of vocation. An overarching sense of the Why preceded the How. Where what we want to do meets what is crying out to be done, that is where we should be.— Rabbi Sacks (@rabbisacks) 31 December 2017
(4) The fourth idea is to make space in your life for the things that matter, for #family and #friends, #love and #generosity, #fun and #joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your #life went.— Rabbi Sacks (@rabbisacks) 31 December 2017
In Judaism, we have #Shabbat, the one day in the week where we make space for all the things that are important but not urgent. Life without dedicated time for renewal, like a life without exercise or music or a sense of humour, is a lesser life.— Rabbi Sacks (@rabbisacks) 31 December 2017
(5) The fifth idea is to #work hard. No great achiever — even those who made it seem easy — ever succeeded without hard work. It is no coincidence that the Jewish word for 'serving God', 'avodah', also means hard work.— Rabbi Sacks (@rabbisacks) 31 December 2017
There are many other ideas but these are some of the most important in my opinion. Try them and you will be surprised by joy. Wishing you all a wonderful, meaningful and fulfilling #2018.— Rabbi Sacks (@rabbisacks) 31 December 2017
This sermon is called The Fall of the Mighty. The young think they are mighty and will never grow old. They are also ignorant and arrogant.
Our youth and lives are over before we know it. Our lives are as fleeting as the shadow of a bird flying acorss the desert, making as much of an impression. Don't let feminism distract you from the parenting of legitimate children who may one day be a credit to you. https://t.co/RRdF7vAtlK— Claire Khaw (@MinimumSt8) 1 January 2018
