4 Principles To Live Your Best Life
by Daryl Daughtry, Publisher
Here are four brilliant little life lessons you should adopt to help you live your best life. These four life skills are present in people who are consistently successful and happy in life. They can also help you in your pursuit of success in both your professional and personal life:
1 – Trust Your Instincts
Trusting your instincts will always be very useful, and you must not ignore that little inner voice that speaks to you. Your personal instincts or “gut feelings” tend to be very reliable when you find yourself in a delicate or challenging situation.
How many times does a hunch or an inner voice warn us about a situation or a person? And very often it turns out to be right; and that’s why you should choose not to ignore it.
People who develop a set of non-negotiable core values or principles enjoy instincts or feelings that are based on those values or principles. People who neglect to determine these beliefs are left with just trusting their emotions alone. So, trust your instincts, but guide them by establishing values and principles that you choose, in advance, to follow.
2 – Leave Your Comfort Zone
Stubbornly living in your comfort or safe zone is undoubtedly familiar and comforting (hence the name). This state of mind causes us miss out on many things, such as being open to new ideas and experiences. Therefore, it’s vital to your personal growth and development to be more open to others to take advantage of the opportunities that may arise and may involve a bit of (wait for it)… discomfort.
Being open to trying new things or meeting new people is allowing yourself to not only get out of your comfort zone but to discover new things that you might actually enjoy. Often, we don’t live our best life because we don’t explore options and opportunities that could enhance our life. By trying new things, you’ll be able to discover and understand some things you didn’t even know existed. After all, you don’t know what you don’t know until you know it. Chew on that for a second or two.
Even if you have solid qualifications and a well-recognized education, your learning shouldn’t stop there. Learning new insights and acquiring new skills should be an intentional and lifelong pursuit. Knowledge gives you the power to leverage and refine your life in ways that mentally lazy people can’t enjoy. Remember, they don’t know what they don’t know.
3 – Take Continuous Inventory
When embarking on a best-life journey, it’s wise, even essential, to take regular self-assessments. Diagnose your inner and outer strengths and weaknesses and implement actions to correct or improve them.
In your quest to live your best life, you must not neglect your health and well-being either. It’s very essential in maintaining motivation levels as well as having an energy reserve to continue to keep your inner light bright. It’s, therefore, necessary to rest, exercise, and adopt a balanced diet to ensure that your forward approach and actions are sustainable.
Don’t forget to take a mindset inventory while you’re at it. Your thoughts drive your emotions and your emotions drive your actions and behavior. Just like you’re required to feed your physical body healthy nutrients, it’s equally important to feed your mind with positive and healthy things. In both your body and your mind, you have to make good deposits in order to enjoy good outcomes. Healthy input produces healthy output.
4 – Pay It Forward
Living your best life comes with responsibility, and that means sharing your resources and experience with others. It’s always appropriate and a huge blessing to allow those around you to benefit from your success. You can do so by helping others live their best lives. Your time, your knowledge, your finances, and even your love can change the lives of others for the better.
This principle of giving back is essential when you want to live your best life with fulfillment and satisfaction. We all start somewhere, at whatever level, and those who succeed rarely do it alone. Along the way they increased their knowledge, their abilities, and their resources with the kind assistance of others. This constant balance between receiving and giving is a critical factor in people experiencing abundance in everything they do.
In addition to sharing your talents and finances, give the gift of listening, the gift of encouragement, and give someone who is radically different from you the much-needed and rare gift of (in the words of Aretha Franklin) “r-e-s-p-e-c-t”… respect.
Again, the four principles are…
1 – Trust Your Instincts
2 – Leave Your Comfort Zone
3 – Take Continuous Inventory
4 – Pay It Forward
This is a time-tested and powerful recipe for living your best life. As I’ve heard is said many times… “Make the rest of your life the best of your life.”
