Living My Best Life Now

Hello friends, how has 2013 been for you so far? For me the year has already been full of ups and downs but I guess that’s life so I’m taking everything that comes in my stride.

 I wondered recently how many people can sincerely say they are excited about their lives at the moment. Can they say they are really living life or merely existing? Just living from day to day and waiting for some event to occur in their lives that will make them say now I can really enjoy my life.

 

I was recently in and out of hospital due to illness, which as far as I was concerned was mainly triggered by stress. This led me to ask myself if I could honestly say I was enjoying my life as it is now or merely existing.

 

Over the years I have had this feeling of urgency to accomplish the things that I felt God had placed in my heart to do, the fact that I had not come near attaining them got me feeling a bit bad with every passing year. I felt that the attainment of these dreams and desires was the key to my real happiness in life and only then will I feel fulfilled and enjoy my life.

Thank God I had time to reflect and renew my mind, there is nothing wrong in having big dreams and aspirations, God has called us to be fruitful and multiply. (Genesis 1v 22) therefore having big dreams, visions and wanting progress and growth is actually part of our human nature. Doubtless we will feel fulfilled and happier when we eventually achieve them but what happens before we achieve them? What happens during the journey?

A friend of mine always says it’s all about the process, the process is much more important than the destination. I realized that I needed to enjoy the process of growth. It is in relishing the process and learning every lesson that I can learn while I am growing that I will find myself at the next level of my life without much effort. The process molds, builds and gets us ready for the destination. It cannot be circumvented, I cannot make it go away, so I had a choice to either enjoy it while I am on my way to achieving this great dreams and desires or hate the process and feel frustrated all the way. Consequently the latter attitude will make let’s say a five year process feel like 10 years while the former attitude will make a 5yr process feel life 3 years.

I use the phrase "renew my mind" because i had unconsciously made up my mind that until I begin this project and this or that happened in my life I cannot truly be a fulfilled and happy person. I know now that I have to purposefully make efforts to enjoy every single day and relish it as a gift from God, while realizing that I am one step closer to achieving my dreams.

The loss of a loved one or the occurrence of a life changing event can actually make you stop enjoying life, you become a shadow of yourself, like a before and after kind of person. It’s not what you set out to do on purpose, in fact in your mind you may believe that you are over the tragic event, you are happy again or you have moved on while you are actually still stuck in the past and living a life full of wishes that will never come to pass.

What I am actually worried about is that we get used to not living life to the full because so and so happened to us that we actually do not realize that we have become zombies dragging ourselves thru life and waiting for something to happen that will hopefully brighten our lives once again. Well, if what I have just described sounds like you please snap out of it, nothing is going to happen that will make you feel alive again if you have not made a conscious decision to enjoy life irrespective of what has happened or where you are on your journey. No one is going to make that decision for you only you can.

I have purposed in my heart that I will not allow anything stop me from being the woman that God has called me to be, off course it’s not easy, life is so real that you just want to dance to its music sometimes. This can however distract you from the music playing in your heart and in your spirit which should be your focus. I am called to be a joyful person, who is excited about life and all the endless possibilities open to me. I can accomplish anything I set my mind to with the help of God who is my strength. I have begun to face my fears and put things in place to achieve my dreams.

 God has given us so everything we need to live victorious and joyful lives but we cannot receive anything if we do not make a conscious decision to get up and live irrespective of what we have or do not have, our experiences, where we are in life and what we have achieved or what we have not achieved.

 

“We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same”- Don Juan.

 

Have a fruitful week ahead. Hugs