Useful Ideas for Your Life

We so easily get caught up in the grand things in life. We focus on the expansive view instead of the small flower. We forget about the seconds exchanged between two humans because we are focused on some year-long plan we're worrying about. Yet, if we stop and consider the small things, we can come to see that they are equally as beautiful and important as the big things. 

Who do you live for? Why do you make decisions? Is it to more closely align yourself with what someone else wants for your life? Or is it a sincere search within for purpose that comes from yourself and not from what other people tell you should be important to you? 

How often do we let the voice inside keep us from reaching out and asking? If we silence the voice that tells us to be afraid of potential rejection and embarrassment, we can see that asking is not the terrible thing we make it out to be. By learning to fight that voice that tells you to be afraid and to be careful, we can unlock a whole area of life that previously was out of reach; that part of life that comes with asking. 

Reacting to the world around us is the quickest way to make life less beautiful than it can be. Every time someone cuts me off on my motorcycle and puts my life in danger, I have a choice: will I react in a seemingly justifiable way with anger? Or, will I process, observe and decide how I want to behave in this world? 

Trying to please everyone in life is to live a lie. Choosing to live authentically will ruin some relationships but clear the way for other stronger, better ones to come into your life. What does authenticity look like in your life?

Gratitude is more than just writing some nice things about your life in a notebook. Have you stopped and realized what gratitude means in your life? 

What does it mean to make decisions that actually carry risk? 

Do we make risky decisions or do we just make decisions that carry the risk of less reward than full reward...there's a difference.  If we tell ourselves that we are willing to take risks to get what we want, we should make sure we understand real risk.  

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