Living or Surviving!

Jack Landon once said "The proper function of man is to live - not to exist"

Many times through life we go on automatic. We go through similar motions each day as it passes like the one before it.

Soon you realize that you've reached an older age and look back and notice that this year was similar to last year and that you could have gone through another year without having done anything, without having really lived life.

You see it wouldn't be okay if you want to truly live life, to really experience it, to enjoy it to the fullest, instead of barely scraping by  and only living a life of existence, then you need to find ways to break free from the mold and drink from the fruits life can bear.

Here are a few ways to live life to the fullest:

1) Take chances - We often live our lives too cautiously, worried about what might go wrong or what someone might think. Be bold and risk it all. Do something you've never done before or go up to that girl you've liked for a long time and ask her out. What do you have to lose?

2) Follow excitement. Try to find the things in life that excite you, and then go after them. Make life one exciting adventure after another. What stirs your blood? Do you have that white hot burning desire that when you think about it...excites you?

3) Turn off the TV. How many hours will we waste away in front of the television? How many hours do we have to live? Do the math, then unplug the TV. Only plug it back in when you have a DVD of a movie you love. Otherwise, keep it off and find other stuff to do. If you are having financial problems and you have the TV. Consider that the TV is probably keeping you broke.

4) Travel - Sure you want to travel some day. When you have a vacation time, or when you're older. Well, what are you waiting for? Find a way to take a trip, if not this month, then sometime soon. You may need to sell something or stop your cable bill and stop eating out to do it, but make it happen. You are too young to not see the world. If need be, find a way to make a living by grasping onto an opportunity. You can find ways to make a living from a home-based business and work an hour or two a day. Don't check email but once a week. Then use the rest of the time to see the world.

5) Exercise. Get off the couch and go for a walk. Eventually try running. Or do some push ups and crunches. Or swim or bike or row. Or go for a hike. Whatever you do, get active, and you'll love it. And life will be more alive.

6) Be positive. Learn to recognize the negative thoughts you have. These are the self-doubts, the criticisms of others, the complaints, the reasons you can’t do something. Then stop yourself when you have these thoughts, and replace them with positive thoughts. Solutions. You can do this!

7) Face your fears. What are you most afraid of? What is holding you back? Whatever it is, recognize it, and face it. Do what you are most afraid of. Afraid of heights? Go to the tallest building, and look down over the edge. Only by facing our fears can we be free of them. Courage is facing the fear and doing it anyways.


8) Stop watching the news. It’s depressing and useless. If you’re a news junky, this may be difficult. I haven’t watch TV news or read a newspaper regularly in about 10 years. It hasn’t hurt me a bit. Anything important, people tell me about them anyway.

9) Be in the moment. Instead of thinking about things you need to do, or things that have happened to you, or worrying or planning or regretting, think about what you are doing, right now. What is around you? What smells and sounds and sights and feelings are you experiencing? Learn to do this as much as possible through meditation, but also through bringing your focus back to the present as much as you can in everything you do.

I hear in an inspirational movie once The Shawshank Redemption "Get busy living, or get busy trying." Life is a constant flow and growth. If you find yourself complacent and comfortable, then you are no longer growing and expanding your life.

W. L. Bateman said "If you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always gotten"

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