What do you enjoy doing? You may enjoy trying new things. You may enjoy eating, socialising, sight seeing and the list goes on. The issue is too little enjoyment and it is not satisfying, too much and it gets boring. There is a need for prioritising. Our physical health may be a priority or it maybe our psychological wellbeing, our priority maybe studying, creating and learning.
Whatever it is we need to grow up and be an adult with responsibility towards our life. We need to try and support ourselves, our family, to be healthy and enjoy our life. For all these, there needs to be a plan, a plan to learn, a plan to teach, a plan to achieve and a plan to give something back to the community.
A simple plan works, we need to plan according to our needs and aspirations. We need to find what is at the core of our interest and what we care about. There are various methods of self improvement and improving our awareness. We can for example follow a cycle of learning, teaching, feedback and creativity. Each one of these points need to value enjoyment within them. We need to learn so that we can grow as person and enjoy and understand life better. We need to teach in a sense of giving something back to the community so that we gain a sense of fulfilment. We need to reflect on what we do and give ourselves feedback in our dealings and to analyse and evaluate our actions. And lastly creativity is about doing something that we enjoy and place us in a state of flow. For example writing can be what resonates with our personality and the way we express ourselves. But this creativity can be through many mediums such as painting, music, video, audio, picture or many other things.
Enjoyment means taking pleasure in something. Our life meaning is to do something that we are meant to do and to take pleasure in doing it. Our life purpose is to add value to our life and others life while doing this. In order to maximise our enjoyment in life we need to be present in mind and focus on the activity, we need to limit distractions and to be in the moment. It helps to break down our goals into smaller set goals and spend time doing activities that we enjoy.
Another aspect of cultivating relationship is to connect with others, to feel good and also to express appreciation of the people in our life. We also need to maintain a balanced prospective, to know that challenges are part of life and perfection is unattainable. We can help ourself do this by maintaining and prioritising wellbeing, to have enough enough sleep, balanced diet, regular exercise, and to reduce stress, to take deep breath, and promote wellbeing.
It is half a battle in life to identify our values in life and to align ourselves towards these values. It is to contribute to something greater that benefit us and the community. We should practice gratitude for what we have in life along the way as this keep us grounded and focused. Lastly to reflect on our life and to relax. This alignment with values, nurturing our wellbeing and focusing on present sets us towards right path to enjoy our life.
How can we have a fulfilled life? We need to cultivate and grow various aspects of our life. These are relational aspects, personal aspects, economical aspects, and the list goes on. Lets start by cultivating a meaningful relationship, we need to focus on quality over quantity, it is about focusing on creating and maintaining deep connection with few people rather than having shallow relationships. We also need to be generous in giving as well as being open to receive attention and support. We also need to identify what we love and pursue it, we need to make time for what motivates us. We also need to stay curious and keep learning, to gain new experiences and regularly assess our goals and progress. We also need to maintain a balance, whether in our physics, nutrition, and emotional wellbeing or in balancing work and rest. And lastly seek and create joy, through small achievement, nature, social interaction or creativity.
We seek to have a fulfilled life and enjoy ourselves throughout our life. In childhood we are curious and want to try new things. In adulthood we want to achieve and gain new experiences. And later in our life we want to enjoy ourselves and rest. The ordering of these stages are not necessarily constant and they change depending on the person and environment. But what is important is that we are all trying for a better present and future. Our very core essence is to want to grow and to try our best to grow, and part of this growth is enjoyment and fulfilment throughout life.
We need to start with ourself, we need to work on ourselves first. We need to try and heal our traumas, negative experiences and generally help ourselves to grow. Journey of self fulfilment starts with us, it starts with us working on ourselves, by being in control of our life. We need to start expressing our unfulfilled desires through art, music, self expression or any mean that would help us. This expression needs to be ethical and moral in nature. When we heal ourselves and focus on growing ourselves then we have the capacity and possibility of helping others.
Our life fulfilment and our enjoyment in life is dependant on us take account and pay attention to our impulses, our feelings, our thoughts, our pursuits and our actions. As long as we maintain this throughout our life we will have enough understanding to serve our community and society. This will give us a sense of life fulfilment and enjoyment that we long for in life. In other words if you want to make the world a better place, first start with yourself. When focusing on oneself you will be able to impact your environment for the better.