WAYS TO LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST

By: Princy Narang

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As this is a well known fact that life is highly unpredictable and what will happen tomorrow we cannot even imagine, thus we should try to live each and every moment of the life. We know we cannot do anything about the length of life but we can work on its width by living as if there is no tomorrow.

Nowadays in this fast moving era , people keep on working 24X7 and it looks like they are living to work but it should be the other-way round i.e. work to live. There is a race going on to work and make more and more money in course of which people neglect their health and even family and they forget that money is not everything. They keep on thinking about their future and forget about enjoying in the present and due to this nonstop working and worrying about future they lose their health and thus are unable to enjoy their future too and the moment they realise this, it’s already too late.

Apart from work, most of us continue to live our life thinking about what others will feel and behave in the manner as per the wish of their friends, family, colleagues and boss etc.

In this race to make money and to be accepted by the society we forget the most important thing of life that is we forget to live. Life doesn’t mean just to survive but it means much beyond that i.e. LIFE MEANS TO LIVE.

Thus the question arises that what you can do to make the most of your life so that their remains no regrets. This can be done by living each day, each moment to the fullest and do the things you want to do by your heart and not what others wish.

Let us go through the ways which can help you to live your life to the fullest:

• Make a fresh start everyday: Live in the present, forget your past and stop worrying about your future. Live for the moment as if there is no tomorrow. Even there is a beautiful quote from Louise Smith, “You can’t reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday’s junk.” So just leave all your past behind and live each day as a new one.
• Be what you are: Just try to be yourself, do what you want to do and not what others want. Don’t follow anyone and don’t make any ideal rather set an example for others.
• Love your family, friends, society, nature etc. and spread love too.
• Stop grumbling and complaining about pettiest things since life means much more than that. When in problem, complaining is not the solution rather look for ways to fight with your problem.
• Follow proactive approach in life: try to remove the problems and challenges in your life even before they crop up.
• Introspect yourself and know what you are and what exactly you want to do and how can you achieve it rather than looking at others for help and guidance.
• Don’t feel jealous about what others have in life and you don’t have. As it creates negativity in life and the result is either you lose interest or follow negative means to avail similar things. Rather to live life to the fullest, make yourself such that you should feel happy with others happiness and success and make yourself capable of achieving that by your own hard-work.
• Set up a life goal and break it up into small goals in a way that it leads to the ultimate life goal. These small goals can be easily fulfilled and each completed goal gives motivation to accomplish the next one. This step by step completion of goals will give you a feeling of fulfilment. For e.g. I want to travel the whole world, is my ultimate goal and  in the coming vacations I will go to Europe and next year to Australia and so on are my small goals.
• Try to incorporate positive thinking in your life as it helps in seeing the brighter picture of life which makes you healthy, happy and stress free and ensures that you are not only ready to face any problems in life but also come out of those problems as a winner.
• Write a bucket list of things which you want to do or experience in life, before the life ends such as sky diving, bunjee jumping, camping, going to some far island, driving a luxury car etc.
• Follow a passion like painting, sketching, training people, swimming, dancing etc. and try to make it your dream job/ business and push it further to flourish with time. Because doing any passionless job makes the life dull.
• Always try to help others in any form feasible to you as it will give you the true happiness of life.
• Take full responsibility of all your decisions in life and not blame others for your failures. Rather make a habit of learning from your failures and convert them into successes. As it will enable you to shape and mend your life decisions and thus will provide you with sense of ownership and also that you are the sole controller of your own life.
• Try to keep your mind, body and soul - healthy and happy: by way of healthy diet, meditation, yoga etc. Because only if you are healthy and happy only then you can enjoy your life fully. The easiest way to achieve this is by starting to love yourself.
• Be socially active and aware: As it will help you make friends and will help you in living your life with happiness and enjoyment.
• Look outside and just observe that how much the world is beautiful and full of energy. Try to imbibe the beauty and freshness of nature into you and feel light and enjoy it thoroughly.
• Never stop dreaming because dreams motivates and pushes one to achieve them. Also Walt Disney once said that, “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them”. Fulfilling dreams give a sense of achievement and internal happiness.
• Work to live and not live to work: Don’t make your work, your life. Work is no doubt important but it is not everything. Work is definitely a good sizeable portion of life but not the entire life.
• Never let the child inside you to die: Always remain a kid at heart as kids never feel any restrictions of life and try to enjoy it to the fullest. For e.g. you are never old and busy enough to enjoy your favourite ice-cream or playing your favourite game etc.
• Always choose to be happy: It’s your choice whether you want to be happy or not, as happiness comes from within.
• Travel to the place you always wanted to go because it is now or never. Try to take time out to visit the place which you always wished too as it will give you ultimate happiness and sense of fulfilment.
• Always be open to learn new things and keep yourself updated. Learn whatever gives you happiness like learning piano, salsa etc.
• Try to forgive and forget: Life is too short to hold any grudges. Just let bygones be bygones.
• Fall in love again even if you had a bitter past, as love is the best feeling in the world which cannot be described in words.

By going through the above it becomes clear how you can enjoy your life and make the most of it since everyone get only one life and which is also very short. Thus consider each new day as a new life and try to live each day as if it’s your last. In the end I hope that may you live your life to the fullest and make it beautiful and fulfill all your dreams.

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