- What do you have to have?
- What do you want out of life?
- What would be nice to have?
How are you doing to answer these questions? You need to classify what’s really important to you. Do you want to be head of the PTA or are you more inclined to be the type to have all the children over for slumber parties? It really is your own decision; you shouldn’t feel stuck in any one role of your life.Â
If you are devoting too much time to something that you don’t like, only to please other people, than you are really doing the things you do in your life for the wrong reasons. Look for and do what you like most.Â
The importance of establishing priorities in your life can’t be stressed enough. If you don’t sit down, write out and then live by your list of what is really important to you and what you love to do the most, your dreams of having a full life won’t really ever come true.Â
Tips to helping you decide what is most important to you personally in life:
Take a month out of your life. Write down everything that you do. Where you go. Who you talk to and where you have been. As you are writing this things down during this one month of your life, put a note, did you have fun, did you laugh, were you there for your son/ daughter/ spouse/ career/ money or just because you were expected to be by someone else.Â
If you are not answering that you had fun, that you didn’t laugh, or that you didn’t want to be where you were, doing what you did, you should stop doing this!
What you need to do is take a look over your month long listing of things that your did, that you enjoyed, and that you loved most, and make yourself do them more. Possibly it was reading a book, taking a walk, petting the dog, taking the escalator four times with your friend while you were talking, or what ever – but you enjoyed it so do it more often. This is going to help you get more out of your life.Â
In thinking back about your daily life what are some of the things that you often finding yourself wishing that you had, that you did, or that you could experience? Some of the most exciting things in life are not going to happen unless you put your foot out there and take a step.Â
What I mean is that if you want to learn to roller blade, go white water rafting, to hang glide, or if you want to learn a new language, fly a kite, dye your hair dark or if you want to get colored contacts then do it! To make your life more meaningful to yourself, you only have to please yourself.Â
On the other hand, if what is really going to make you happy is to quit working, then you better have a plan on where your money is going to come from. Some of the smallest things in life can make you appreciate your life and enjoy life more than you might have ever thought!
Your want, need and wish list can be as long as you would like it to be. Take each day slowly, making changes that affect you in a better way then anything else in your life. Don’t just make all the changes in one day or you may find yourself in some type of social, mental or even physical shock. Make your self-changes daily. Take steps, but small steps into getting what you want in life so you enjoy every minute of it all!
- Make your life differentÂ
- Make your life more your own and more enjoyable.
