What is Five Top Tips for Living Your BEST Life?
While each one of us has different goals to fulfil and life to love, there is a common thread in our existence too. We are all here, experiencing life, to bring out the best possible potential from within us and share it with others. We are all here to be the best we can be, as individual human beings.
You can live a mediocre life. Regardless of circumstances, this is a life where sometimes you get your way, but it is only after other's get theirs too. So there is always a compromise. And you're supposed to feel satisfied with just what you've got, been given, or received in life. You look around and see that everyone else is doing the same thing - they are not living the lives they want to live, instead they are always compromising to keep moving ahead. Mr Jones gets up, goes to work, comes home, spends time with the family, then goes to bed. The next day, he gets up and does the same thing all over again.
1. for living your BEST life - Accept Responsibility for your life and everything in it.
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Make a commitment that you will live your best life. Accept that you have to make it happen - not your partner, your husband, your family. It's not your mother's responsibility! Others can help and guide you, but it is your job to walk this path. This also means that you STOP WAITING!
Stop depending or waiting for others to make your life better! Instead you do it yourself. This step is most important but difficult too. If you don't participate in making your own life better, well then nothing can become better. Make a silent mental commitment to yourself "I will do/change whatever I have to... I am responsible for living my best life." Then think of what actions you can take to make your life better today. Not tomorrow, not next month. Identify some small steps/things that will improve your life experience today, and then take action on them.
2. for living your BEST life - Invest in yourself by learning meditation
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Every day that we are alive, we invest. We invest our time, energy and effort in our children, our homes, business, our travels, our stocks & shares... but along the way we forget to invest in ourselves.
So invest in training your mind through meditation. You cannot live your best life without a mind that supports you to be happy and joyful. Find a good teacher and then spend the time, energy, effort and money you need to learn the wisdom that will guide you to your BEST life.
Invest also in your health, and good experiences. Exercise, travel, enjoy good food and drink, enjoy nature, hang out with positive people and most important of all - remember to see the good in your life on a daily basis, not just once in a while.
3. for living your BEST life - Discover and follow your passions.
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Ask yourself this simple question - How much passion do you feel in life? Do you feel alive and on fire as you start your day? Are you excited to be at work? Do you feel that you are doing what you were born to do?
It takes courage to live your BEST life because it means finding and following what you love to do. Be aware that you will always be better at doing what you love to do than doing what you don't love. Now if you think that you don't have a passion/dream in the first place, I want to remind you that you DO! It's just been so long since you thought about your passion that you think it is no longer there. So spend some time looking within and discover the fire that is waiting to be lit inside you.
4. for living your BEST life - Release negativity.
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Release and let go of all negativity, regardless of why it's there. There are always good reasons of why we feel anger, hatred, grudges or jealously towards others, but no reason is good enough to keep on hurting yourself for. All negativity hurts you more that those around you.
Imagine that you are holding onto some heavy weights in your hands. And now you try to raise your hands higher to flap your wings to fly. You will find that the weight is really heavy and it holds you down. Blame, complaining, anger, grudges... these are all the weights that hold you down.
So, let go of the negative experiences of your life. Accept that it is you who has to let go of the pain, not the people who caused you the pain (if you wait for them, you are playing out the role of a victim). The enlightened teachers say it is never the snake bite that kills you; it is the poison left behind that kills you.
5. for living your BEST life - Love yourself every day.
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Treat yourself with love every day, not just on special occasions like birthdays and anniversaries. Don't wait for others to make you feel good either! Take the responsibility to make yourself feel good no matter what happens! Again, meditation training will be invaluable for this.
So everyday of your life, remember that the most important person in your life is YOU!
Enjoy small pleasures on a daily basis - a cup of coffee, a walk in the park, yoga class, a good book to read, a chat with a friend, a massage, enjoying the beautiful trees around you... anything to show yourself some love very day.