4- Clear the picture

To increase the quality of life you need to be first clear about your being. Prioritize things that you want to achieve in your life. By prioritizing your goals your decision making process will become smooth. You become independent  and free from all kind of foolish races because there isn't any race at all. It's just you who is confused and unbalanced. 

To achieve such mental state in which you clear about your life is not an early process. you need to give some time to yourself but slowly and gradually you will get the key of mastery. 

There is a short stories to explain this.....

A group of highly established alumni got together to visit their old university professor. The conversation among them soon turned into complaints about their stressful work and life. The professor went to his kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups, including porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain-looking, some expensive and some exquisite. The professor told them to help themselves to the coffee.

After all the students had a cup of coffee in their hands, the professor said: “ Did you notice all the nice looking cups are taken and only the plain inexpensive ones are left behind. While it is normal for everyone to want the best for themselves, but that is the source of problems and stress in your life. “ “ The cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most of the cases, it’s just more expensive and hides what we drink.”, the professor continued.

“What  all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but all of you consciously went for good looking expensive cups and then began eyeing on each other’ s cups.”

“Let’s consider that life is the coffee and the jobs, houses, cars, things, money and position are the cups.  The type of cup we have, does not define or change the quality of our lives.