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Five Top Tips for Living Your BEST Life

Enlightened wisdom believes that the question is more important than the answer. In other words, you can never get the correct answer without the correct question being asked. So, asking the RIGHT questions to yourself is the most important thing you can do for your personal growth. We are born, and we will all die one day – this is certain. In the middle of our birth and death is this thing called Life. We don’t choose the fact that we will die one day, but we do have a choice about how we will live the days of our Lives. So here’s an important question: What is Life for? What is my Life about? What is the purpose of my journey here?

It’s important to ask this question because the answer will decide your life experience. Is Life just for growing up, getting an education, meeting your partner, having children, creating a big successful career, company, or family, having experiences, friendships, and relationships, and then one day leaving it all behind when you pass away?

It is true that along the way, you may do all of this, but what is the big picture of Life all about? This is an important and powerful question to ask. I asked myself this question when I was just a teenager and then went in search of the answer. I looked both within, into my heart, and externally by meeting and learning from enlightened teachers. Eventually, after a lot of searching, practice, and experience, I found my answer.

While each of us has different goals to fulfill and Life to love, there is a common thread in our existence. 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.

This is the answer to the big question that will clarify and set the path for your Life: You are here to be the best you can be in your relationships, work, friendships, efforts, and Life. To help you live your best Life, let’s begin by understanding that there are essentially just three ways to live Life.

You can live your lowest Life. Regardless of circumstances, this is a life where you don’t follow your dreams; you keep chasing STUFF. You are the least important person in your Life; everyone else is more important than you: your partner, your kids, your work, and your in-laws—all of this is more important than being authentic to yourself.

You can live a mediocre life. Regardless of circumstances, this is a life where sometimes you get your way, but only after others get theirs. So, there is always a compromise. And you’re supposed to feel satisfied with 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 again.

This is the conditioned Life, albeit stable, secure, and comfortable. Living this life with no purpose every day is dangerous as it may bring you to a mindset that believes this is how life should be. Once this mindset has taken root, you are condemned to a lifetime of mediocrity and nonsignificance. You can live your best Life! This is a life where you know the reason you are alive. You clearly understand what you want to do with your Life. You are living authentically, not to fulfill others’ expectations of you. You are full of purpose, passion, and a sense of completeness. You are engaged in work you love; you share Life with someone you love. When you wake up, you know you’re living your highest potential. If you can find the courage inside you to live your highest Life, here are five tips to help you do so. Living your best, highest, biggest, brightest life is easy by following these five tips. The first tip is the most difficult, but let us start here because if you can do this, all the others that follow are easy.

Tip 1 for living your BEST Life – Accept Responsibility for your Life and everything in it.

Understand that you can only change what you are responsible for. If you are not responsible for it, you do not have the power to change it.

To accept responsibility for yourself and create your BEST Life.

Commit that you will live your best Life. Accept that you must make it happen – not your partner, husband, or 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 the most important but difficult one, too. If you don’t participate in making your own life better, 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 improve your Life today. Not tomorrow, not next month. Identify some small steps/things that will enhance your life experience today, and then take action on them.

Conscious change starts inside you first. This is a truth that can never change. Wasn’t this article a thought in my mind before it became real? Similarly, your relationship, home, children, job, current Life – all these were thoughts first before they became a reality. When you understand this, you can also understand how to improve your Life.

Tip 2 for living your BEST Life – Invest in yourself by learning meditation.

Every day that we are alive, we invest. We invest our time, energy, and effort in our children, homes, business, travels, stocks & shares… but along the way, we forget to invest in ourselves. You are at the center of your Life and everything you have created. So make sure the core is always well taken care of. Think about it – before your children came into your Life, were you not there first? Who came before your home? You! Before the relationship? You!

You are the reason why everything else is in your Life. Sometimes, we lose sight of this powerful truth… So ensure you invest in yourself by training your mind to be happy. Meditation is the ancient science of mind training and it shows you the way to create your happiness and joy. It also gives you mental clarity that allows you to see the big picture of your Life and empowers you to take steps to make it what you wish. So invest in training your mind through meditation.

You cannot live your best Life without a mind that supports you in being happy. Find a good teacher and then spend the time, energy, effort, and money you need to learn the wisdom to 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 importantly, see the good in your life on a daily basis, not just once in a while.

Tip 3 for living your BEST Life – Discover and follow your passions.

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 think that you are doing what you were born to do? To live your BEST Life, you must discover and release your passion – this benefits you and everyone around you. It would be best to look within yourself to find meaning and work that will light a fire inside you. 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 you don’t have a passion/dream in the first place, I want to remind you that you DO! It’s 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 waiting to be lit inside you.

Tip 4 for living your BEST Life – Release negativity.

Release and let go of all negativity, regardless of why it’s there. There are always good reasons why we feel anger, hatred, grudges, or jealousy towards others, but no reason is good enough to keep on hurting yourself. All negativity hurts you more than those around you. Imagine that you are holding onto some heavyweights in your hands. And now you raise your hands to flap your wings to fly. You will find that the weight is hefty and holds you down. Blame, complaining, anger, grudges are all the weights that hold you down. Interestingly, the more positive you become, the more you see good opportunities – reasons to thank you and be grateful. And the universe supports you more, too.

Be aware that if five years ago someone hurt you, but you keep thinking about how that person hurt you by what he said or did… then he hurt you but once, but since then, you’ve hurt yourself a 100 times thinking back about it. If you get on a flight to go somewhere, there is always a limit on the baggage you can carry. 20kg in economy, 30kg in business class, or 40kg in first class… but there is always a limit. If you take more than that, you are penalized! Similarly, if you carry too much baggage, you are penalized and do enjoy enjoy Life’s beauty.

So, let go of the negative experiences in your Life. Accept that you are the one who has to let go of the pain, not the people who caused you the pain (if you wait for them, you are playing 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.

Learn your lessons for the hard knocks of Life, and move on to a better person. Don’t hold on to the past because the past is not holding on to you!

Tip 5 for living your BEST Life – Love yourself every day.

Treat yourself with love daily, 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, every day, remember that the most important person in your Life is YOU!

Enjoy small pleasures daily – 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 every day. If Life were just one thing, then all people would have the same life experience some are happy, others unhappy. Some are full of gratitude, and others are full of complaints. The truth is that Life is nothing without you. There would be no experience/ definition/ quality of Life without you.

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