However, so many people struggle to be present and actually experience their lives as they are.
Here, how to make the most of your life, starting right now.
First, you have to step back into neutral.
Sophia Sinclair
You are shoving the bad feeling down in place of trying to feel something different.
Stop trying to be happy.
Thoreau
Happiness is not something you might chase.
It is something you have to allow.
But happiness is not actually something you could coach yourself into.
Happiness is your natural state.
The less you resist your unhappiness, the happier you will be.
It is often just trying too hard to feel one certain way that sets us up for failure.
Arrive into the present.
All negativity is because of an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.
The only place to find happiness is in the present because thats the only place it truly exists.
Stop trying to assert dominance.
Nobody takes center stage or dominates the conversation for long stretches of time.
Instead, you find a lot more happiness by not trying to prove yourself.
for find greater happiness, you oughta see yourself as an equal to those around you.
Lean into the little joys when you find them.
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
This, however, is actually the opposite of happiness, because its conditional.
True happiness is actually embracing the little joys in life.
The sunrise on a warm summer morning, your cup of coffee, an amazing book.
Most people severely overthink happiness.
They assume their lives have to be in perfect working order for them to experience real joy.
This is not so.
Real joy is finding happiness where you are, and how you are.
Nurture positive relationships when you have them.
Life is relationships; the rest is just details.
Thats totally missing the point.
Happiness is not contingent upon you forcing relationships you dont want to be in.
It is, however, contingent upon you building and fostering relationships with peopleyou already like.
Learn something new all of the time.
Failure is not just a disappointment, it is in fact a new way of personal growth.
Without failing you wouldnt grow in the rate that you did without it.
Think of life as something you’ve got the option to constantly learn from.
Your pain teaches you what does not feel good, and what you should not continue to do.
Your joy teaches you what does feel good and in alignment.
See challenging times as opportunities for transformation.
I think that we are like stars.
C. Joybell C.
Happy people arent joyful all the time, and this is an important distinction to make.
In fact, genuinely happy people are moreat peacethan they are ecstatic about everything they experience.
This is because happy people are inherently coachable and changeable.
They are not stuck in their ways.
They understand that life requires growth, and when that growth stagnates, discomfort begins to arise.
The true nature of life is constant movement, and constant evolution.
Be wary of what you give your energy to.
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity.
We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair.
When you give your energy to certain thoughts, they gain life.
Schedule time to do nothing.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is an active pursuit as much as it is a passive one.
It is also taking time to embrace the mundaneness of everyday moments.
Taking this time wont happen on its own, you have to plan for it.
Schedule time to play.
Have you ever been happy?
What have you done today to matter?
Did you exist or did you live?
How did you thrive?
Become a chameleon-fit in anywhere.
Be a rockstar-stand out everywhere.
Do nothing, do everything.
Forget everything, remember everyone.
Care, dont just pretend to.
Love everyone and nothing at the same time.
Its impossible to be everything,but you cant stop trying to do it all.
Brian Krans
When we were kids, all we did was imagine and play.
Paint, play in the sand, play games you love, be creative for the sake of it.
Enjoying life is living it out in both the simplest and most transformative ways possible.
Part of that is simply letting yourself show up, and be who and how you are.
