This piece is for two groups of people:

1. People who have achieved the pinnacle of earthly success and are looking for other ways to make it as perfect, fulfilling, effective, or functional as possible. 
2. People who have achieved some, or no success, failed altogether, or thinks they have failed, but belief with some help, can be perfect, fulfilling, effective, or functional. 

The ultimate end of all human labors is happiness (prosperity, a state of well-being and contentment, or pleasure, and felicity), which can be achieved by having a definite chief aim, careful planning, and an effective execution of the plan.

But, here are few great questions:

Question 1 – Do worldly pursuits and attempts to find happiness, peace, and fulfillment, in temporal things truly produce the desired expectation of happiness?

Ponder over the findings of King Solomon, the man whom the Bible says was wealthy, rich, and wise and the greatest ever lived. The whole world sought audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom God had put in his heart.

All King Solomon’s goblets were gold and all the household articles in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. Nothing was made of silver, because silver was considered of little value in Solomon’s days.

He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines:

“Wise or foolish, we all die and are soon forgotten.” This made me hate life. Everything we do is painful; it’s just as senseless as chasing the wind. Suddenly I realized that others would someday get everything I had worked for so hard, then I started hating it all.

Who knows if those people will be sensible or stupid? Either way, they will own everything I have earned by hard work and wisdom. It doesn’t make sense. I thought about all my hard work, and I felt depressed.

When we use our wisdom, knowledge, and skill to get what we own, why do we have to leave it to someone who didn’t work for it? This is senseless and wrong.

What do we really gain from all of our hard work? Our bodies ache during the day, and work is torture. Then at night our thoughts are troubled. It just doesn’t make sense” (Ecclesiastes 2:16-23). 

Question 2 – Is it true that riches are not an unmixed blessing?

1. Can material blessings often times be the root of envy, jealousy, and bitterness in families and among friends?  
2. Is there a profit to the labor of man in this life; amid pain, death, war, and poverty?)

Question 3 – Can a man gain the whole world and lose his or her soul?

1. “For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” (Matthew 16:26).

More than anything else, the answer to these questions may be the reason we all need to “optimize our lives.”

The riddle of life is the most profound (cf. Mathew 10:39; 16:25):

1. If you find your life, you lose it. If you lose your life, you find it. 
2. If you save your life, you lose it. If you lose your life, you save it. 
3. We all have one life to live. 
4. We all die. 
5. Every man is a microcosm (a little world). 
6. A man can gain the whole world, and lose his or her soul? (Mark 8:36).  
7. The gate and the path that leads into life is strait (pent up, close, and not obviously seen) and narrow (difficult to be entered). 
8. But, wide is the gate, and broad is the way, which leads to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat.  

Life is overly precious, and for this reason and many others, we have invited you to read this piece. Your life will never be the same again, because what you have learnt, would bring you so much happiness and peace forever.

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