Creating a life you love isn’t about being or having the “EST” of things: prettiest, smartest, richest, thinnest, fastest, strongest, tallest, or coolest.
Instead, creating a life you love is about knowing the things that make for a beautiful, wonderful, exciting, fulfilling, and thrilling life for YOU. In fact, your BEST life may not have a single “EST” in it actually. Your best life is the one you create and then choose to live into daily.
Easy? No!
Worth it? Absolutely!
This is your one and only life. Be fierce. Be bold. Don’t waste another day living a life that is someone else’s idea of a great time. Live YOUR idea of a great life. Here are six ways you can create a life you love:
- Cultivate an Intimate Relationship with God. He is
THE Creator, YOUR Creator. What better way to live a life you love than
to get to know Him and His plans for you? “In Him we live and move and
have our being.” (Acts 17:28) “For I know the plans I have for you,
declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you. To give you
a hope and a future.” (Jeremiah 29:11) - Identify Your Priorities. What matters most to
you? If you don’t know your target, how are you going to hit it? Take
time to examine what is most important to you so you know what you are
aiming for with your days, and ultimately, your life. - Intentionally live into your priorities – Knowing
your target and hitting your target are two very different things. Once
you’ve identified what really matters to you, create an action plan for
each of those areas. Choose two ways to intentionally live into each
priority. - Choose to be grateful. Gratitude is the ultimate
heart medicine, beauty product, and mood changer. If you attended
Allume, then you received the 100 Days of Gratitude Journal in your SWAG bag. We’d
love for you to join us on a 100 day gratitude journey to see for
yourself what a difference choosing to be grateful can make in your
life. - Create a personal definition of success. What
legacy do you want to live? What do you want friends and family to
remember about you when you are gone? What impact do you want to make on
your family, your community, and our world? Knowing these things will
give you a purpose each day. - Evaluate often – What’s going well? What’s not
going well? What needs to change? These are questions we ask each month
in our iBloom Life
& Business Planner. It’s an opportunity to take inventory. Your
ideal schedule, action plans, and even your daily to-do list will need
tweaking…lots of tweaking! Be brave enough to recognize when things
aren’t working and then be bold enough to make the necessary changes to
get back on track. {FREE gift for YOU: Download this month’s printable version of the iBloom
Life & Business Planner!}
Life is full of challenges, joys, highs, and lows. Each and every day we face choices that will either move us closer to living a life we love or further from it. Life isn’t easy and living a life you love requires that you’re intentional, focused, and determined to keep your eyes on your target. Every. Single. Day.
Focusing on these six essentials will help you make the most of each precious day. And one day, when you look back over your life and consider how you lived it, you will have the JOY and the privilege of smiling! Yes, actually grinning from ear to ear because you have the deep satisfaction of knowing:
You gave it your all, you truly lived a life you loved, and you passed the only “EST” test that ever mattered anyway…the life you lived was your very own personal BEST!