10 Secrets To Living A Great, Happier And Positive Life

A great life doesn’t happen by accident. A great life is the result of allocating your time, energy, thoughts, and hard work towards what you want your life to be. Stop setting yourself up for stress and failure, and start setting up your life to support success and ease. A great life is the result of using the 24/7 you get in a creative and thoughtful way, instead of just what comes next.

Customize the following 10 “secrets” to fit your own needs and style, and start creating your own great life today!

1. Purpose

Have you ever wondered what your life purpose is? How do you know if you are living your life purpose or not? Discover your life purpose. Set the mission statement for your life; one that will drive you to life your life to the fullest. If you are not living each day with excitement, energy, and passion, then you are not living true to your life purpose.

2. Values

Each of us has our own set of core values that’s as unique as our thumbprint. These core values determine what’s really important to you as an individual. The surprising thing is, that no matter where we are in life, if you ask most people what their core values are, many would not be able to give you an answer! Would you? Discover your values. Values are the essence of what makes you, you.

3. Goals

If you want to succeed, you need to set goals. Without goals you lack focus and direction. Goal setting not only allows you to take control of your life’s direction; it also provides you a benchmark for determining whether you are actually succeeding. Set your goals. After you design your ideal life, set your 5-year, 3-year and 1-year goals. The more specific your goals, the better!

4. Simplify

A great life is the result of simplifying your life. People often misinterpret what simplify means. It’s not a way to remove work from your life. When you focus on simplifying your life, you free up energy and time for the work that you enjoy and the purpose for which you are here.

5. Effort

A great life is the result of your best effort. Creating a great life requires that you make some adjustments. It may mean re-evaluating how you spend your time, or choosing to spend your money in a different way. It may mean looking for new ways to spend your energy that coincide with your particular definition of a great life.

6. Create Priorities

A great life is the result of creating priorities. It’s easy to spend your days just responding to the next thing that gets your attention, instead of intentionally using the time, energy and money you have in a way that’s important to you. Focus on removing the obstacles that get in the way of you making sure you are honoring your priorities.

7. Eliminate distractions

A great life is the result of eliminating distractions. Up to 75% of your mental energy can be tied up in things that are draining and distracting you. Eliminating distractions can be a difficult concept to many people, since they haven’t really considered that there is another way to live.

8. Thoughts

A great life is the result of controlling your thoughts so that you accept and allow for the possibility that it actually can happen to you! Your belief in the outcome will directly dictate how successful you are. Motivated people have specific goals and look for ways to achieve them. Believing there is a solution to the same old problems you encounter year
after year is vitally important to creating a life that you love.

9. Action

Take action on your goals and dreams. Create an action plan with your strategy, plan and immediate next steps. A great life is the result of starting. There’s the old saying everyone’s familiar with “a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” In order to even move from the couch to the refrigerator, you
have to start. There’s no better time to start than today.

10. Positivity

Be positive. Is the glass half empty or half full? How about neither? It’s actually all-full – the bottom half is water, the top half is air. It’s all a matter of perception. Take on empowering perceptions, not those that bind you. If you can see the positive sides of every thing, you’ll be able to live a much richer life than others. Purge unnecessary negativity from your life.