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Some people love their lives and wake up every morning raring to start the day. Others have a lacklustre life with no energy to get up and start living.
Which group do you belong to? I’ve belonged to both at different points of my life, and highly recommend loving your life!
Here are four areas you may want to start thinking about. Once these four ‘legs’ of your life are in place, you can enjoy the stability of a life you love everyday, or at least most days.
Feel free to read the posts below to get you started. Or get free updates by RSS or email to start the journey to a life you love.
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Getting your finances under control
A large part of unhappiness is due to worries about money. When you have to worry about paying the bills, there is little energy left to focus on intangibles like relationships, health, and joy.
The only reason to pay attention to money in the beginning is so that you can get money worries out of the way for good. Here are a few posts to get you started.
- How to Increase Your Cashflow and Wealth
- Manage Your Money
- Try a Weekly Cash Budget
- Create Multiple Sources of Income
Doing work that you enjoy
The happiest people I know are those who enjoy what they do, are good at it, and can make a living from it. Once you find this combination, be thankful that you have a treasure that few people ever discover.
What if you have not found this work? Start with the work you have today and begin to transform this work into something meaningful. Your attitude and results will in turn open doors to better opportunities.
Building your relationships
Most people are happier when they are enveloped in loving relationships with family and friends. Research suggests that those in happy relationships live longer.
Building relationships takes time and effort. I’m still working on my own relationships, and am far from a guru. Here are some thoughts.
- Let Go of Expectations
- Seek First to Understand
- Write It Down Before You Blurt It Out
- Love Like It’s Never Going to Hurt
Growing as a person
Once your finances, work and relationships are in order and you have a life others envy, you’ll find that something else is still lacking. This is because we are born to grow, and when you stop growing, there is an emptiness inside.
So the path to joyful days never ends, because the joy (along with some angst) is in the growing. That is why I blog. Most of what I write is to help me grow as a person.
- Think Deeply
- Care Less About What Others Think
- Keep A Gratitude Journal
- How to Find Happiness That Lasts
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