Sounds pretty simple, doesn’t it? So is this all it takes to live life with gusto?
The answer is ‘yes.’ Isn’t that wild? Everything in your life doesn’t have to be perfect. You don’t have to have the perfect partner, job, home, health. You just have to breathe with a focus on the Light. I have a friend who is losing her sight and she has the most amazing ability to smile and joke and talk about clothes. I just love being around her because she is living life with such gusto – without sight but WITH gusto. Think how much easier life is for us with our eyesight intact and yet SHE is living with gusto. Are you?
It’s a decision. You can choose how to look at your life. You can feel sorry for yourself or you can look for something about which you can feel gratitude. You can say ‘Woe is me’ or you can say ‘Whee! Ain’t life grand?’ Which will you say today?
Remember that life isn’t about what happens to you. It’s about how you respond to what happens to you. When something seems to trip you up how do you respond? Do you look for the opportunities in the situation or do you whine? Does whining ever get you what you want? I believe that opportunities abound for us to grow and to explore and to learn but whining and feeling sorry for ourselves keeps us blocked from the growth, exploration or lesson.
In my life I am all about learning the lesson as quickly and easily as I can. I try to avoid 2 by 4s to the head so I constantly scan the horizon looking for lessons. I want to live life with gusto so I am grateful for the opportunities to learn that I discover along the way. I smile so that I might lift up another person’s day. And in that experience I find I am the one who is uplifted.
Think of the cultures who enjoy life with a richness and fullness to that enjoyment. The Italians, for example, have a wonderful saying – ‘Dolce far niente,’ which means ‘How sweet to do nothing.’ Sitting with friends, enjoying some wine, doing nothing. It all adds up to living life with gusto. Do you give yourself permission to do nothing? Are you taking time to really enjoy yourself?
You don’t have to take a big vacation or be doing something spectacular to be excited about your life. Take pleasure in the little things in the moment. Enjoy the bite of food that is in your mouth. Smile at the person you are passing in the corridor or speaking with on the phone. Look out the window and enjoy what you are seeing. Choose in this moment to relish whatever the reality of this moment might be. Be grateful that you can breathe. Be happy that there are other people around you who are in your life for a reason. Enjoy the moment without judgment or perfectionism but just as this moment is unfolding for you. This is what living life with gusto means.
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MUSE-INGS: “Breathe. Focus on the Light. Breathe Again.” by Rosemary Bredeson
December 14, 2010 — RosemarySounds pretty simple, doesn’t it? So is this all it takes to live life with gusto?
The answer is ‘yes.’ Isn’t that wild? Everything in your life doesn’t have to be perfect. You don’t have to have the perfect partner, job, home, health. You just have to breathe with a focus on the Light. I have a friend who is losing her sight and she has the most amazing ability to smile and joke and talk about clothes. I just love being around her because she is living life with such gusto – without sight but WITH gusto. Think how much easier life is for us with our eyesight intact and yet SHE is living with gusto. Are you?
It’s a decision. You can choose how to look at your life. You can feel sorry for yourself or you can look for something about which you can feel gratitude. You can say ‘Woe is me’ or you can say ‘Whee! Ain’t life grand?’ Which will you say today?
Remember that life isn’t about what happens to you. It’s about how you respond to what happens to you. When something seems to trip you up how do you respond? Do you look for the opportunities in the situation or do you whine? Does whining ever get you what you want? I believe that opportunities abound for us to grow and to explore and to learn but whining and feeling sorry for ourselves keeps us blocked from the growth, exploration or lesson.
In my life I am all about learning the lesson as quickly and easily as I can. I try to avoid 2 by 4s to the head so I constantly scan the horizon looking for lessons. I want to live life with gusto so I am grateful for the opportunities to learn that I discover along the way. I smile so that I might lift up another person’s day. And in that experience I find I am the one who is uplifted.
Think of the cultures who enjoy life with a richness and fullness to that enjoyment. The Italians, for example, have a wonderful saying – ‘Dolce far niente,’ which means ‘How sweet to do nothing.’ Sitting with friends, enjoying some wine, doing nothing. It all adds up to living life with gusto. Do you give yourself permission to do nothing? Are you taking time to really enjoy yourself?
You don’t have to take a big vacation or be doing something spectacular to be excited about your life. Take pleasure in the little things in the moment. Enjoy the bite of food that is in your mouth. Smile at the person you are passing in the corridor or speaking with on the phone. Look out the window and enjoy what you are seeing. Choose in this moment to relish whatever the reality of this moment might be. Be grateful that you can breathe. Be happy that there are other people around you who are in your life for a reason. Enjoy the moment without judgment or perfectionism but just as this moment is unfolding for you. This is what living life with gusto means.
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