Create Your Ideal Life Recipe — Part 3
Here are the final three tips for creating a satisfying life that fits you to a “T.” Reduce stress, get the love you want, and live your life to the fullest with these tips. The rest of this recipe list appears in two earlier posts–part 1 and part 2. Drop a comment with your suggestion of an ingredient for your “ideal life recipe.”
Do I have enough time just for me?
Whether you’re an introvert or extrovert, time alone is essential for your spiritual and emotional well-being. Start experimenting to discover how much time and space YOU truly need. You might find out that you prefer several types of alone time (e.g., to reconnect with your source, to create and exercise your right brain, to journal and reflect, etc.). However you choose to spend your time, take this opportunity to learn how self-care will make everything in life come out better. Once you’ve found ways to nurture yourself, make sure to take time for you each day.
How do I know that I am valued, appreciated, and loved?
If your culinary efforts aren’t acknowledged in a personally meaningful way, one of the most important parts of the experience is missing. We all need feedback that is affirming and nourishing to our soul. Answering this question can assist you in clarifying your personal needs for acknowledgment and recognition. You may want to be told explicitly that you are loved in order to feel loved, contented, or peaceful. Perhaps public acknowledgment allows you to truly appreciate your value at work. As you identify the ingredients you need to know you are appreciated, you can find ways to add them to your life.
How would I live if I knew I would die one year from now?
This question can point the way to the “recipes” you are truly called to make. By considering the remainder of your life compressed into a year’s time, the truly important ingredients will bubble to the surface. Rather than waiting for the right time to pull out your best recipe, find ways to bring these creations into your life right now. For example, if your heart draws you to help children, you might consider finding volunteer opportunities or paid work that allows you to share healing and compassion with kids. When we live as if our time won’t ever end, we diminish the reasons for creating what we truly want now. If we continually put off what really matters, we end up living a life of urgency about unimportant things, instead of creating a life we can thoroughly savor. When you honestly answer this question, you’ll identify the life you really want and increase your willingness to begin creating it right now. Give yourself the gift of acknowledging your own mortality so that you’ll begin to live as if each moment you have does matter.
No Comments »
RSS feed for comments on this post.
| TrackBack URI
You can also bookmark
this on del.icio.us or check the cosmos
