How to Experience Life

Jonathan Swift¹ once said;

“There are only few who live today, most of us live tomorrow”.

I have mostly lived in tomorrow, always looking forward, aiming for my goals.

Many times I have let my happiness and well being today slide so that I can produce results that will benefit² me in the future.

Find Balance

I wrote about this in depth³ in an earlier post here at Pick The Brain: How to find Balance in Life but I want to mention it here since it is an important subject.

If you cannot balance your needs of today with the needs of tomorrow you will not be able to focus⁴ 100% on your goals and you won’t be able to continuously⁵ produce high quality results.

How I try to Increase “daily living”

As I said I have had a lot of problems focusing⁶ on today’s needs, I have such a focus on my goals that I have been close to burning out multiple⁷ times, I have had to stop myself from working so that I don’t neglect⁸ my family and I have had to force the habit of a daily work out to save me from health care troubles.

With that said, I have gotten a lot better at it.

I have learned⁹ that life today is pretty good, that happiness is a choice and one I don’t have to wait until tomorrow to live and that spending time on all 4 major areas of my life makes me more efficient in each: Family, Health, Career and Finances¹⁰.

An exercise that has helped

Something that has helped me has been to take 30 minutes every day and just focus on the now. Thinking;

“What do I really want to do NOW? “

“What makes me the happiest?”

“How can I spend as much time as possible doing what makes me happy?”

“What do I have to be happy about?”

Do that for 30 minutes, it gives you 30 minutes of freedom every day.

Make it a habit

Make living in the now a habit. Practice gratefulness¹¹ and mindfulness, practice happiness, take time for yourself, your family, your friends, do whatever you need to feel good about yourself.

If you live today you might not have to dream about tomorrow

If you take a hard look at your life, you might realize that you have already achieved most of your goals, maybe you have achieved enough?

In that case, why not just be happy?

Action Exercise

? For 30 minutes/day focus on yourself;

“What do I really want to do NOW? “

“What makes me the happiest?”

“How can I spend as much time as possible doing what makes me happy?”

“What do I have to be happy about?”

I hope you liked this article and found it useful.

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