One of the common desires that people experience in their lives is summed up as a well-known saying – “I want to thrive, not just survive.” This can also be interpreted as enjoying life as opposed to simply existing. When there is a deep need for a person to change his way of life, the world has a way of presenting this in the form of a new opportunity to change.enjoying your life

Unfortunately, many people miss these opportunities due to being restricted by their own self-imposed limitations and negative mindsets. These negative mindsets can only manifest when a person is approaching his life from the wrong point of view.

We are going to explore this a little here, in the hopes of helping people overcome these kinds of limitations.

I Can’t Get No Satisfaction

The most important thing for us to understand when we want to transition from a life where we are merely existing, to a life we truly enjoy is the idea of honesty and self-reflection. We can’t even begin to think about truly enjoying our lives if we don’t first learn to understand ourselves deeply. What does this mean? It means understanding our needs and our desires at a very fundamental level.

Someone who has a very clear idea of his needs will be able to focus his life and mind in a way that works towards his required and desired attainments.

On the other hand, someone who is only focused on his desires and over-looking his needs may go about causing himself more harm in the hopes of going after what he wants.

This self-inflicted harm will leave him feeling worse off, even if he does somehow manage to attain the desire he first set out to attain.

When we focus upon our needs first, we can ensure that all the fundamental requirements for our lives are met. This gives us a stable foundation to build upon. We can then set about developing ourselves in a way that leads us towards the things that we desire as well.

Stable Terrain Versus Rocky Terrain

It doesn’t matter what kind of foundation you build for yourself, if it is built on an unstable terrain, it will eventually come crashing down around you. Ensuring that your essential foundation is safe and secure means you will be able to build upon it in a way that allows you to experiment with what comes next. Even if what you build upon that foundation collapses, your foundation will remain intact.

Enough with analogies, let’s be very clear on this.

When you have built a way of life that takes care of your essential needs, this can be considered a stable foundation. Once you have this in place, your desires can then be sought after. Your desires sit on top of your needs, and so you can remove them at any point and simply return to the stable foundation.

If you approach this problem from the other way around, you are going to find great difficulty at every turn, because the energy you put into your desires will not be giving you the things that you really need.

Fundamentally

You absolutely must consider your needs, making them your number one priority. Work to attain these first, and once they have been attained then set out to achieve your added desires. This will allow you to enjoy your life more because you will have a concrete knowledge that no matter what happens while you are chasing your dreams, whether you succeed or fail, your essential needs are always met. From here, you are free to play around with whatever you want, and you will never be really concerned if things don’t go as planned.

This is the key to enjoying your life, to thriving, as opposed to simply existing or surviving.

Author's Bio: 

Judi Moreo is an author, speaker, and life coach. She has written 11 books including “You Are More Than Enough: Every Woman’s Guide to Purpose, Passion, and Power.” Judi can be reached at judimoreo@yahoo.com