Seven principles of Viktor Frankl for a worthy living

Alex Pattakos in his book "Prisoners of our thoughts" Applies the ideas of Viktor Frankl for everyone.

1. Exercise your freedom to choose your attitude: Viktor Frankl says that even in the worst of circumstance we are never controlled by anything and no one can take away our ability to choose our attitude towards anything.
2. Realize your will to meaning: A human being’s basic motivation is not to seek pleasure (according to Freud), nor to seek power (Nietzsche and Adler speak of it). Frankl says that the primary motivation for every man is the will to meaning. Meanings are manifold and thus are unique to each special situation. One can find ten thousand meanings in ten thousand situations.
3. Detect the meanings of life’s moments: It is your or my duty to find the meanings for each and every moment.
4. Don’t work against yourself: Frankl speaks about what is known as hyper reflection: a tendency to overly reflect on oneself, one becomes very attentive to oneself, watching oneself severely. While overly reflecting, you are increasing your worries and anxiety, adding to the severeness of your anticipatory anxiety.
5. Look at yourself from a distance.
6. Shift your focus of attention: May your attention be directed on someone, something. We human beings are always searching out for meanings to fulfill and other human beings to encounter.
7. Extend beyond yourself: We have the capacity to rise above our daily trifles. We have the power to transcend.