What Would Need to Happen for You to Fall in Love With Life?
Most of us settle. What if we stopped settling and looked at what we needed to do to fall head over heels in love with life?
What would it mean to feel alive? And what would need to happen for you to fall in love with life? Unfortunately, I have sat across too many people surviving instead of thriving. Waiting for their gold watch. Or else waiting for the shoe to drop.
Most of Us Settle!
We settle for poor working conditions, low job satisfaction, loveless marriages, mediocre personal health and fitness, and a pathetic bank account.
But what if we woke up one day, drew a line in the sand, and decided not to settle anymore? What if we decided we would not settle for marriages that lacked intimacy, soul-sucking jobs, and living paycheck to paycheck?
What if we decided we would no longer settle for superficial relationships, meaningless conversations, and mind-numbing activities?
Don't Wait Till It's Too Late
Most of us settle because we don't feel the need to change. After all, change takes too much effort. And like the frog dying in the pot that is slowly boiling till it gets too weak to jump out, we stay in the same situations while life is sucked out of us.
Change often happens when we feel it is necessary — when it gets too hard to stay in the status quo. We change when we lose jobs or divorce, or face a life-threatening illness. Why do we wait till we face a life-changing situation? Why not change our lives before waiting for our lives to change?
Living a new way of being out of necessity
What would your life look like if you decided to settle no longer but would live your best life out of necessity? Necessity because we only have this one life to live?
What would you need to do to fall in love with your life?
Over five years ago, I realized that to indeed fall in love with life, I had to follow my inner calling toward a different career path.
Living life on my terms
It reached the point where I needed to look at alternative ways of living my potential, although I excelled as a stock broker. And that no amount of meditation, expressions of gratitude, or money could make me stay where I was. My work no longer aligned with my values.
I was also tired of the rain in the pacific northwest! Reflecting on what I needed to enrich my life, it became clear that I wanted to live and work in Paradise.
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Once I decided I needed a career change, opportunities dropped on my lap. And they came faster than I could have anticipated.
A friend of mine took up long-distance running after a massive heart attack. Before that, she neglected her health and fitness despite the signs showing that she needed to change her habits.
Don't wait till something dramatic happens to you. Instead, look at your life now and ask yourself:
Where are you settling? In what areas of your life are you unhappy?
They say that "necessity is the mother of invention." What needs do you have in any area of your life that is not being met? What if you made meeting these needs a necessity? What would life then look like?