shape your life

Design the Life You Want

"Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all…’What would excite me?’

So often we limit our own happiness or excitement by sticking to convention.   the synonym to happiness is excitement and the opposite of excitement is boredom. So many of us are bored, trudging through our best years in anticipation of the elusive retirement, failing to recognize that retirement is rarely as fulfilling as desired and an extended life sentence is not a promise. Designing a lifestyle NOW that serves you NOW should be the ultimate goal.

Here are a couple ways I↞ suggests we can do that:

1. Invest in self-care. “By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable.”
2. Less is more. “Focus on being productive instead of busy.”
3. The time is now. “The Timing is never right, if it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually’, just do it and correct course along the way.”
4. Ask for forgiveness, not permission. “Get good at being a troublemaker and saying sorry when you really screw up.”
5. Play up your strengths. “Focus on better use of your best weapons instead of constant repair.”
6. Do what you want. “…Opposed to what you feel obligated to do”.
7. Time is money. Focus on relative income, which accounts for time and dollar. Rather than absolute income that focuses only on the dollar amount.