How To Fully Experience Life

As an adult, you have a lot of responsibilities.  From your job, ensuring you have enough financial means to live comfortably, to making sure your family is well taken care of.  There are a lot of demands on you each and every day.  But, some of these demands may be holding you back from fully experiencing life and achieving your goals.  You can’t let your goals and dreams die.  Here is how to fully experience life and love the life you live.

No Regrets

If it were just you, with no responsibilities, where you could do what you want, when you want, no matter where you want, it would be easy.  However, in today’s world, you most likely have obligations that require your immediate and undivided attention.  Yet, life is about the experiences.  If you’re simply stuck in your mundane day to day routine, you won’t be fully experiencing life and all that it has to offer.  You don’t want to get to the end of life with regret of what you could have done.  Let alone imagining what life could have looked like if you went after your goals and dreams.

Pick One Thing

Start by thinking about something you want to do but you don’t feel like you’re able to.  Maybe this is spending time alone, taking a day off of work, or going away with a bunch of friends.  Pick one thing that you want to do but you’ve been denying yourself from doing.  For whatever reason, your obligations have been stopping you from believing that you can do these things.

Reasons Why

You may have a few reasons why you think you can’t do these things.  The first reason could be the fear of hurting someone else’s feelings if they weren’t included.  This also goes with the fear of letting someone else down.  Or, perhaps you would feel selfish for doing something just for yourself.  It may be financial reasons or even a combination of all of these things.  Whatever it may be, your mind has put up a barrier as to why you can’t possibly justify taking action to fully experience life.

Make It Happen

Drill down to the deeper reason behind why you can’t do this one thing for yourself.  Then, ask yourself if this is a sufficient reason.  Really think about if there is no possible way that you could make this happen.  Again, your excuses or reasons why you can’t will begin to pop up.  Identify and address each one to see if it’s truly a valid reason for why you can’t live out your dreams.  You don’t want to live a life with resentment over what you could have done and experienced in your life.

Communicate

The next step is to open communication.  Explain why this is important to you and what it would mean for you to be able to do this.  Get into the logistics of how you could make this work.  Address any feelings or concerns, especially when there are other people involved.  Reciprocate the request and make this a mutual activity by helping someone else experience their desired dream too.  Think strategically and communicate how you can live out the experiences you want to make happen.

Create A Plan

Set a goal for yourself to do this one thing.  Overcome the reasons holding you back and establish plans to make it happen.  Schedule it in your planner and commit to following through on your plans.  Avoid thinking about all the reasons why you can’t and focus on how you’ll feel when you’ve completed your experience.  That could be revived, refreshed, inspired, motivated, etc.  Create an action plan to accomplish this one thing that will help you to experience life rather than being stuck in your daily grind.

Don’t deny yourself from experiencing life because of the demands life has put on you.  You are fully capable and able to make this work.  Fulfill your dreams and encourage someone else to fulfill theirs at the same time.  Life is what you make of it.  Don’t hold yourself back.  Experience life and all that awaits you.  Your future won’t wait forever.  Build a life full of experiences that will make you love the life you’re living.  Start with this one experience and then go from there.