What does it mean to baseline your life?

Each one of us should have a minimum baseline of Life.  There is a term used called the “Poverty Threshold” or  “Poverty Line”.  The idea behind this is simple.  According to Wikipedia, the Poverty Threshold “is the minimum level of income deemed necessary to achieve an adequate standard of living in a given country.”

Of course, that doesn’t really mean anything to anyone.

I’m going to redefine this as your Life Baseline…and I’m going to up the standards.

My definition:  Your Life Baseline is a minimum set of things you should have in your life in order to give you the basic tools you need to reach your full potential.

Of course, with Living the Best Life Ever, I certainly don’t believe in “full potential”, as we can always achieve a higher level, but for now that definition will suffice to illustrate my point.

What is your Life Baseline?

My definition is made to be open so anyone can define what their minimum needs to be for themselves.

Either way, consider what I believe should be the minimum for everyone:

Life Baseline:

• Shelter – a place to call your own that you feel comfortable in.
• Food – a diet that is perfect for you in every way, and has the opportunity to grow and provide you with even greater levels of health in the future.  Also: access to all the food you can use, in the highest, cleanest, and most potent forms available.
• Clothing – clothes that make you feel so good when you slip inside them and see yourself wearing them.
• Internet Access – secure, fast, always-on.
• Work that you love – yes, this is a minimum.  Most people spend their entire lives either doing something they hate, or working hard to try to do something they love for a living.  This is insanity and has to stop.
• Self-respect and admiration – a true, healthy, respect and admiration for yourself.  You must be able to say “I love myself in every way” and really mean it.  Remember, your flaws are opportunities for growth, you should love these just as much if not more than the parts of you you are pleased with.
• Confidence – Goes with the above, but I wanted to mention this separately.  Everyone should feel confident in themselves and confident about themselves around others.  No exceptions.
• Freedom – Absolute Personal Freedom.  There should be no question about this very basic tenant of life.  Doesn’t matter which country you live in.  Right now, most of the world is not truly free.

These are the basic things we should all be guaranteed and expect from birth.  Only from this “baseline” can we expect to truly grow into our full potential as human beings.

There is no way to ever protect ourselves from something unwanted or negative.  That’s not part of this whole process.  These things are necessary in order to grow.  You can not possibly want an improved condition without some sort of condition around you that you currently don’t like.  That’s how we are designed to grow.

That’s how we reach better and better levels of happiness and personal fulfillment.

That’s how we are able to Live the Best Life Ever and guarantee ourselves that yes, it can get even better than it is now!

Are You at Your Life Baseline?

Personally, I’m not.  And most of us probably are not either.  Most of the things I hear others talk and complain about are the basic necessities of life:  meaningful work, enough income to thrive, a comfortable place to live, etc.

Most of those in the “self-help” and personal development field work their whole lives to try and help and inspire others to even get close to reaching their minimum baseline.

I believe that we can create a new world, where we all are guaranteed our minimum Life Baseline and are then free to explore, create, and reach our complete and full potential.

I’m still working on my Life Baseline, but I notice that I do get closer and closer every day.

Part of what I’m doing with this site is to publicly document or discuss certain aspects of me working on achieving that minimum, and then breaking through to go even further to the next level.

It is my hope that not only can I achieve this for myself, but I can help and inspire as many people as I possibly can as well.

~ JS

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