The Path to Enjoying Life

Lemons, lemons, lemons... Why does everything in life right now seem to be lemons?

I want to do more than survive life, I want to live it. But, living life right now seems difficult: highly educated, yet unable to find a job; a mind that wants to do many things, but a body that doesn't want to cooperate; a desire for emotional health and wealth, when feeling emotionally drained. I just seem to be surviving day by day, and I barely seem to be doing that. How can I transition from surviving life and all of its ups and downs to living and enjoying life? How can I do this without relying on other people, their thoughts and opinions, etc... How can I do this in spite of other people, their actions or inactions, their thoughts and opinions, etc... If there is an answer out there, I want to find it.

While researching how to enjoy life, I found some of the following tips. This week, I am going to find a way to adapt them into my life, and I'll be blogging on my experiences in the journey. I encourage you to do the same. Here are a few of the tips I found:

1. Appreciate Beauty
2. Connect With Nature
3. Laugh
4. Have Simple Pleasures
5. Connect With People
6. Learn

How are you doing in meeting the items listed in this "living life" list? Can anything in it help make your life better? In looking at the list, what challenges do you see that you will have to overcome? For me, I see challenges in numbers three and five. When I am struggling in life (or surviving it, rather than living it), I rarely laugh, and I don't like to be around people.

These six tips are going to lay out the path I am choosing to follow this week. I'll tell you about my journey, and I hope you'll tell me about yours. Here's to enjoying and living life!