“Live Your Best Life”
The topic of many of my previous discussions has all revolved around the concept of “Living your best life”. This mantra has followed me through the last couple of months and it has sparked a conversation within myself that has challenged me to practice what I preach.
When you break down the phrase, the first half is “living your”. To live or give life takes action. To become whoever it is you want to be, it takes action. In order to take that first step in living your best life, you must take action by directing your thoughts towards your specific destination.
We all have grown up in different household settings. Some of us have called home to a place where the love is conditional and the support is genuine. Others have called home to places where love is a figment of the imagination and support is scarce. No matter which background you came from, YOU are ultimately in control of how your life plays out.
When we think about our “best life”, we simply imagine ourselves in a place where all of our dreams and ambitions have come full circle and our pain/suffering is no more. We imagine ourselves being able to make an impact on not only our life but the life of those that have helped us along our process. But in order for our best lives to manifest, we must embrace who we are.
Embracing who we are as an individual is fundamental to this entire process. Embracing yourself no matter your sexual preference, religion, lifestyle, also plays a huge factor in living our best lives. Life is full of things we don’t understand. Many things we will have an answer for. Somethings we don’t. But in order to truly unlock who we are as living beings, we have to live unapologetically and disregard of all who don’t accept who we are.
We’ve all been in the moment of having a big idea that caused an epiphany in which we become excited and felt the need to share this idea with someone. Instead of them embracing the idea, they shoot it down. “You’ll never become (insert your dream here) because no one in our family has done it and you will be no different” or my personal favorite, “It’s too many people in that field, you’ll never get in”. These type of heinous statements will eventually seep into your thought process and contaminate what used to be pure.
In order to truly live our best lives, we just have to ride the waves. Life comes fast. Some situations we have to put some time in for, others happen almost instantly. Regardless of how opportunities to arise, the one way to ensure that your life goes the way you want it to is to be grateful for all situations. Both good and bad.
Ultimately, living our best life comes down to us being grateful. Grateful for getting another 24 hours to make a change. Grateful for the people that are in our lives and most of all being grateful for who we are. In order to truly live your best life, you have to be selfish and think about yourself. However, it is very crucial to ask yourself how is this next decision going to benefit the rest of my life?
Living a life full of everyone’s decisions instead of your own will slowly lead you down the path to destruction. Living a life full of your own choices will lead you to the promise land. Today, let’s practice embracing ourselves, our actions, our gifts & talents. Let’s enjoy being in each other’s company and give each other flowers while we can smell them. Let’s live our best life by appreciating where we are at this moment and let’s allow this feeling of gratefulness to take over our lives.
