Do you appreciate your life? You have every reason to appreciate your life; it’s the only life you’ve got to live in, and if you don’t appreciate your life then you are probably wasting it.
How can you appreciate your life?
1. MAKE GOOD USE OF IT
Making good use of your life is a sign of value; what you love, you’ll value. If you are wasting your life, it’s a sign that you don’t value it, but when you do something tangible with your life, you make your life worth it. Life is a treasure and a gift with an unmeasurable value; so every life worth living is worth living well.
2. CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY
Make a decision to be happy; happiness is a choice and a decision. You can either choose to be happy or unhappy; it’s a choice you make. You appreciate your life by being happy.
3. IMPACT SOMEONE’S LIFE
This might be counterintuitive but one way to appreciate your life is to have an impact on someone else’s life. A self-centred life doesn’t have much value, but a life that’s a blessing to others is always worth it. The world would be a much happier and better place if we all appreciate each other. A lack of value and appreciation is the reason why there are crimes, killings, theft, looting of funds and so many other menace in the society.
4. FORGIVE YOURSELF
You’ve made a mistake; learn to forgive yourself. Learn from your past mistakes and forgive yourself. If you can’t forgive yourself, then you wouldn’t be able to forgive others. Carrying a heavy heart around doesn’t show appreciation.
5. FORGIVE OTHERS
Deliberately make that conscious effort to forgive other people even when they wrong you. The beauty about forgiving others is that you tend to gain a lot; forgiving them and moving on will pay you better than carrying that burden all over the place.
6. DON’T LIVE IN REGRET
Never live a life of regrets; choose to forget past deeds and mistakes, don’t look back at the past and wallow in pains. The past is gone and can never be brought back, but the future lies ahead; you have a great future but that greatness will never be attained when you live in the past.
7. LOVE
Love yourself, love your life, love people; carry love in your heart. A life without love is a life full of hatred; you show that you are grateful for life when you carry love wherever you go.
8. GIVE YOUR BEST
Everything worth doing is worth doing well, and every life worth living is worth living well. If you aren’t giving life your best shot, then you aren’t grateful for life. If you’re still nonchalant, lazy and without focus and a sense of direction, then you aren’t grateful for life.
9. HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOUR
Don’t be all too contrite and strong-hearted; learn to take a joke, try to smile more and laugh more – be happy. When you always frown and you are always sad and angry, you can never say you are appreciating life in that state.
10. BE POSITIVE
Be positive about life; don’t let the negativity of others and certain situations you face make you downcast. Always see the positive side of things, because there’s always a positive side, only if you’re willing to be positive.
Have you been appreciating your life; you need to start appreciating life.
Jake