Unleashing Your Best Life: Embrace Your Journey, Define Your Means

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On this show…we are letting go and free-falling into our best life, embracing our journey, and searching for meaning. The description, of your best life, can be as subjective as they come. I think we can all agree that this involves some level of happiness, realized dreams, and measurable success but the degree to which you reach it can vary dramatically from person to person. 

We must also recognize that the path to get there is personal and rarely a straight shot. How do our twists and turns factor in? To embrace our journey we have to start with acceptance, good or bad. Then we need to take responsibility so that we can find the learning that may be buried behind guilt, shame, or denial. 

Then we need to pack our bags with the good stuff, let go of the bad stuff, and with a renewed commitment to growth, carry on with our venture through life. Defining what “best” means to you may change as you do and that’s ok. Be flexible in your definitions as you learn more for others, from yourself, and life.

Let me tell you about Granny, my husband’s grandmother who turned 100 on Veteran’s Day. Being a former Marine during WWII, this was especially meaningful. Granny lives her best life. Her parents were Italian immigrants who settled in Milwaukee. She married a military man and had 11 children. They moved around for his career, settling outside of St. Louis, MO. 

Granny lives a life of service, to her family, her church, the area children through education, and to her community. She is an avid reader, writer, and piano player. Her positive spirit and passion for life have kept her spry for a century. It doesn’t take long to hear how grateful she is in any conversation.   She doesn’t focus on the struggles that you would expect a child who lived through the depression to do, instead, she talks about gratitude for all the experiences she was fortunate enough to have. 

For the people she has met, for the family she was blessed with, and the love she gave and received. Granny sets the bar pretty high in my book but what I’ve learned from her you get back what you give. She is so loved because she so loved.

Over at wanderlustworker.com I found You Get What You Put Out Into The World

Lucy Gower shares How to Live Your Best Life Starting Today found at lifehack.org 

CHALLENGE: Decide how you want your best life to look and focus your efforts on putting that out into the world. Feel love by giving it; heart, mind, and soul.

 

I Know YOU Can Do It!