10 Ways To A Better Life By: Steve Pilkington There is a difference between living your life and having a lifestyle. Following are 10 ways to better live your life: 1. Realize the difference between working for a living and workng for a life. Ask yourself this question: How much of my life is currently being consumed by my lifestyle? Basically when one's life is being consumed by one's lifestyle one's quality of life needs to be upgraded. There is a huge difference between quantity and quality of life. 2. Change your life by changing your lifestyle. Simplify your life by doing away with those things you truly don't need. Work at eliminating those things you are "putting up" with that drain your life energy. 3. Pinpoint what it is in your life that is not really you. We are all products of our environment to a large degree. Most of us have a tendency to acquire lifestyle roles that do not truly reflect who we really are. It's often easier to live to a life role that has been handed to us by others than it is to make the hard choices which allow us to live authentically. What roles are you living to that is not truly reflective of the "real" you? 4. Identify your passions What are passionate about? What fires you up? Pursue your passions even if you must do so on a part-time basis, they will add joy and fulfillment to your life. Give yourself the freedom to follow what makes you happy. 5. Evolve as a human being. You can create the life you are meant to live. One way is to learn to ask for what you truly need and want in life. Another is to learn to say no to those things which prevent you from evolving. Surround yourself with people and ideas that challenge you to a higher level of thinking. 6. Identify who and what gives you life and energy. Who adds joy and energy to your life? What are the relationships you cherish the most? Spend time with these people...they won't be with you forever. Do you pary, meditate, jog, paint, volunteer? Spend time with what enhances your life. 7. Toss from your lifestyle those things that currently hold you back. Don't wait until a crisis strikes in your life before you toss those things from your lifestyle which cause you the most pain and struggle. If you spent some time visiting people in a cardiac intensive care unit and really listened, you'd come away with a different perspective. 8. Spend some time writing down what a day in your ideal life would look like. Spend some time writing down in detail what an ideal day would look like to you. This is a great exercise to create an image of what you would truly like your life to be. If we can believe it and conceive it we can create it. 9. Identify your values. Values are our guiding principles...they are those things in life which we are drawn to. Things like: abundance, joy, creativity, honesty, love, peace, etc. Identify those things you value most and then align your life with them. 10. Stop striving to acquire. If you could get out of the "rat race" right now how would your life be different? Would you lose anything you could not replace? What road would you take that would be different from the one you are on now? What would you let go of? If you are working just to acquire, you must know that everything you accumulate will one day slip away from you. Stop striving...start living. ************************************************ Steve Pilkington is a Personal/Professional Development Coach. You can subscribe to his FREE ezine: "Create The Life You Are Meant To Live" by sending a blank email to subscribe@lifecoachpro.net with "subscribe AA" in the subject line or visit http://www.lifecoachpro.net ######################################################## Looking For Quality Content? The Syndicator provides free, quality syndicated articles for your website that are automatically updated each week. Syndication feeds include: Business/Sales Internet Marketing/Promotion Web Design/Development Biz Tips Web Design Tips Home & Family Matters Dinner Ideas Health & Fitness Horoscopes AngelVoice Headlines and more... http://www.web-source.net/syndicator.htm ######################################################## Post Articles: mailto:article_announce@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: mailto:article_announce-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: mailto:article_announce-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com Change subscription: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/article_announce List owner: mailto:article_announce-owner@yahoogroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/