{"id":6010,"date":"2011-04-20T22:08:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T06:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pickthebrain.com\/?p=6010"},"modified":"2013-09-09T12:39:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T20:39:34","slug":"how-to-experience-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pickthebrain.com\/blog\/how-to-experience-life\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Experience Life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Many of us go through life without truly living it.
\nJonathan Swift once said;
\n\u201cThere are only few who live today, most of us live tomorrow\u201d.<\/p>\n

I have mostly lived in tomorrow, always looking forward, aiming for my goals.
\nMany times I have let my happiness and well being today slide so that I can produce results that will benefit me in the future.<\/p>\n

Find Balance<\/strong>
\nI wrote about this in depth in an earlier post here at Pick The Brain: How to find Balance in Life<\/a> but I want to mention it here since it is an important subject.<\/p>\n

If you cannot balance your needs of today with the needs of tomorrow you will not be able to focus 100{54c12dad2cc2b53ae830e39915b1a3e70288dbcbbeb8bbf8395437c5dc3c512c} on your goals and you won\u2019t be able to continuously produce high quality results.<\/p>\n

How I try to Increase \u201cdaily living\u201d<\/strong>
\nAs I said I have had a lot of problems focusing on today\u2019s needs, I have such a focus on my goals that I have been close to burning out multiple times, I have had to stop myself from working so that I don\u2019t neglect my family and I have had to force the habit of a daily work out to save me from health care troubles.<\/p>\n

With that said, I have gotten a lot better at it.
\nI have learned that life today is pretty good, that happiness is a choice and one I don\u2019t have to wait until tomorrow to live and that spending time on all 4 major areas of my life makes me more efficient in each: Family, Health, Career and Finances.<\/p>\n

An exercise that has helped<\/strong>
\nSomething that has helped me has been to take 30 minutes every day and just focus on the now. Thinking;
\n\u201cWhat do I really want to do NOW? \u201c
\n\u201cWhat makes me the happiest?\u201d
\n\u201cHow can I spend as much time as possible doing what makes me happy?\u201d
\n\u201cWhat do I have to be happy about?\u201d
\nDo that for 30 minutes, it gives you 30 minutes of freedom every day.<\/p>\n

Make it a habit<\/strong>
\nMake living in the now a habit. Practice gratefulness and mindfulness, practice happiness, take time for yourself, your family, your friends, do whatever you need to feel good about yourself.<\/p>\n

If you live today you might not have to dream about tomorrow<\/strong>
\nIf you take a hard look at your life, you might realize that you have already achieved most of your goals, maybe you have achieved enough?
\nIn that case, why not just be happy?<\/p>\n

Action Exercise
\n\u2022 For 30 minutes\/day focus on yourself;
\n\u201cWhat do I really want to do NOW? \u201c
\n\u201cWhat makes me the happiest?\u201d
\n\u201cHow can I spend as much time as possible doing what makes me happy?\u201d
\n\u201cWhat do I have to be happy about?\u201d<\/p>\n

I hope you liked this article and found it useful.
\nIf you would like to read more from Daniel M. Wood<\/a> you can find more at his blog Looking to Business.com. He writes mainly about Motivation and the Principals of Success<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Don’t Forget To Follow PickTheBrain on Twitter<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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