How to Experience Life

 How to Experience Life

Many of us go through life without truly living it.

Jonathan Swift¹ once said;

“There are only few who live today, most of us live tomorrow”.

I have mostly lived in tomorrow, always looking forward, aiming for my goals.

Many times I have let my happiness and well being today slide so that I can produce results that will benefit² me in the future.

Find Balance

I wrote about this in depth³ in an earlier post here at Pick The Brain: How to find Balance in Life but I want to mention it here since it is an important subject.

If you cannot balance your needs of today with the needs of tomorrow you will not be able to focus⁴ 100% on your goals and you won’t be able to continuously⁵ produce high quality results.

How I try to Increase “daily living”

As I said I have had a lot of problems focusing⁶ on today’s needs, I have such a focus on my goals that I have been close to burning out multiple⁷ times, I have had to stop myself from working so that I don’t neglect⁸ my family and I have had to force the habit of a daily work out to save me from health care troubles.

With that said, I have gotten a lot better at it.

I have learned⁹ that life today is pretty good, that happiness is a choice and one I don’t have to wait until tomorrow to live and that spending time on all 4 major areas of my life makes me more efficient in each: Family, Health, Career and Finances¹⁰.

An exercise that has helped

Something that has helped me has been to take 30 minutes every day and just focus on the now. Thinking;

“What do I really want to do NOW? “

“What makes me the happiest?”

“How can I spend as much time as possible doing what makes me happy?”

“What do I have to be happy about?”

Do that for 30 minutes, it gives you 30 minutes of freedom every day.

Make it a habit

Make living in the now a habit. Practice gratefulness¹¹ and mindfulness, practice happiness, take time for yourself, your family, your friends, do whatever you need to feel good about yourself.

If you live today you might not have to dream about tomorrow

If you take a hard look at your life, you might realize that you have already achieved most of your goals, maybe you have achieved enough?

In that case, why not just be happy?

Action Exercise

? For 30 minutes/day focus on yourself;

“What do I really want to do NOW? “

“What makes me the happiest?”

“How can I spend as much time as possible doing what makes me happy?”

“What do I have to be happy about?”

I hope you liked this article and found it useful.

1 swift   

n.雨燕，大滚筒；adj.迅速的，快的，敏捷的，立刻的；adv.迅速地，敏捷地

参考例句：

• He is swift to hear,but slow to speak.他听力敏锐，但不善言辞。
• He made a remarkably swift recovery.他康复得相当快。

2 benefit   

n.好处，益处，福利；vt.有益于，对…有益；vi.受益于

参考例句：

• The money is to be used for the benefit of the poor.这笔钱用来为穷人谋福利。
• He thought he would benefit from going to school.他认为上学对他有好处。

3 depth   

n.深度；深奥；深厚，深切，深

参考例句：

• What is the depth of this lake?这个湖有多深？
• He was in the depth of despair.他处于绝望的深渊。

4 focus   

n.焦点，焦距；vi.聚焦，注视；vt.使聚焦，调焦，集中

参考例句：

• She was the focus of everyone's attention.她是大家注意的焦点。
• The noise made it hard for me to focus on work.噪音让我无法集中注意力工作。

5 continuously   

adv.不断地；持续地

参考例句：

• They are repairing this road continuously.他们一直在修这条路。
• Our foreign trade is continuously expanding.我们的对外贸易不断发展。

6 focusing   

v.调焦；（使）集中， （使）聚集( focus的现在分词 )；调整（镜头，眼睛）焦点[焦距]以便看清；（光、声等的）焦点；集中（光束于）

参考例句：

• Many firms are focusing on increasing their markets overseas. 许多商行都专注于扩大国外市场。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• More expensive cameras have adjustable focusing. 比较贵的照相机有可调焦距。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 multiple   

adj.多个(或多项、多种)的；n.（数）倍数

参考例句：

• The number 8 is a multiple of 4.八是四的倍数。
• The most common multiple births are twins,two babies born at the same time.最常见的多胎是双胞胎，两个婴儿同时出生。

8 neglect   

vt.忽视，忽略；疏忽，玩忽；n.疏忽，玩忽

参考例句：

• Don't neglect to lock the door when you leave.你离开时别忘了锁门。
• Today's housing problems are the product of years of neglect.今天的住房困难是多年来忽视的结果。

9 learned   

adj.有学问的，博学的；learn的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
• In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里，他被视为有学问的人。

10 finances   

n.(pl.)财源，资产

参考例句：

• I need a professional to sort out my finances. 我需要专业人士为我管理财务。
• The company's finances are looking a bIt'shaky. 这个公司的财政情况看来有点不稳定。

11 gratefulness   

参考例句：

• This small gift is only a tiny token of our gratefulness. 这件小小的礼物略表我们的感激之情。 来自互联网
• This card is only a small token of our gratefulness. 这张卡片略表我们的感激之情。 来自互联网