What I love about our guest author, Elle Sommer, is that even though I haven’t personally met her, she feels like another friend. She is a role model of someone who lives with heart and enthusiasm. I find her writing encouraging, and I think you will be too!
Most of us, swimming against the tide of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement – and we will make the goal. ~ Robert Collier
What would it take to have a world where encouragement was…well encouraged?
Imagine a working environment where we honored people for their contributions and maybe saw mistakes as simply learning experiences. A workplace of heart and enthusiasm.
Or how about a home filled with recognition and praise for the children or your partner? A place where we valued opinions and respected differences. A home filled with heart and enthusiasm.
Here are five effortless ways to begin living your life with a heart full of enthusiasm for your world, your experiences, and your life.
Promise
To always assume the best.
To be kind to yourself and others.
To show up as the best possible you every day.
To dream bigger and greater dreams.
To love more.
To remember, we accomplish so much more when we work together in harmony and co-operation.
Use what you’ve got
To lead a happier, more fulfilling, and abundant life, we have to make some changes, and by deliberately, consciously, and purposefully engaging the laws of life, we can make this process a little easier. I’m always in favor of ease and grace.
A little technique that helps is to choose a thought, any thought, that feels good, or maybe focus on something that you really want to experience and see if you can think about it a thousand times today.
It doesn’t really have to be 1,000 times; just as often as you can, without making it a huge project, and sprinkle it with the thought of how amazing it would feel.
You might choose something like… it’s so great that I now have ______ (fill in the blank) and feel the excitement or relief.
Now you’re firing on all cylinders. Have fun with it.
Take another look
We waste tons of time on all the reasons why we can’t have or do something. Everything is difficult for us, and there are just too many obstacles in our path, all because we interpreted a past event as negative or difficult, and a paradigm of difficulty was created.
In most cases, your current limitations are as a result of your own self-programming. We all do it… stress the negative aspects of our experiences… the problem is, it then becomes pretty tough to create something positive.
Begin to see your past through a new perspective and look for truths you’ve overlooked or forgotten. Seeing your past with new eyes, from the perspective of confidence or success, helps you form a completely new way of being in the world.
Whatever your situation, your past is rich with blessings and success, so begin to filter it through eyes filled with heart and enthusiasm.
A view from the heart
How much time do you spend seeking to be different from who you currently are? I’m all in favor of growth and expansion, and I’m also in favor of stopping to appreciate what’s right here in the now.
More money, more success, a better love life, and being more in shape are all great things to aspire to, and taking time to acknowledge your beautiful self is equally valuable and something we could definitely do more of.
You are precious, your life is precious, and the world is good. You bring something uniquely wonderful to the world. A little acknowledgment of yourself wouldn’t come amiss here.
Maybe you’re currently not very lucky in love, or as rich and successful as the next person.
Maybe you’re not always a happy bunny, and that’s okay. Life is sad, and life is happy; it’s achievement and failure, it’s being confused and certain again, but most of all, life is good, and you can fill yourself up on the goodness of life every day if you stop for a moment to breathe in appreciation and acknowledgment.
Appreciate the days where the skies are brilliantly blue, where sunrises and sunsets awaken your spirit, those days of wind chimes, snowflakes, music that touches your heart and soul, kindnesses, friendships, and soon you’ll be in awe of how much beauty there is in your life.
Tap into a new energy source
Look back on the fun times in your life. When we’ve been playful, joyful, and simply having fun, we’re filled with energy and vitality; we can more easily notice the good in life, everything seems brighter and easier, our hearts are lighter, and our very life force has increased. Fun isn’t a waste of your precious time; it’s a necessary, life-affirming practice.
If you’ve never thought of fun as an energy source, you won’t be using it to have an extra uplifting experience in your day. Taking time out for fun not only increases our vital life force but also sends a powerful message to our subconscious. I am deserving, I am worthy, and life is great. You’ve got to love that.
Be willing to nourish yourself with a little daily fun, and you’ll find yourself with a renewed and refreshed spirit. It’s all too easy to fall into the trap of being overly serious about life. We become too busy, as though the priorities and pressures won’t wait for us, yet strangely enough, they’re always there the next time we focus on them.
Maybe it’s time to set up a new agenda that includes a daily fun activity that fills our hearts and feeds our souls.
You’re in charge of your life, and balancing your responsibilities with spontaneous, creative fun when opportunities present themselves is a wonderful tool for living with heart and enthusiasm.
In the comments below, share with us how YOU live with heart and enthusiasm each day. Your words might just bring that touch of heart and enthusiasm that someone else needed.
Encourage one another.
What helps you live with heart and enthusiasm? Let us know in the comments.
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Elle Sommer is the founder of Live Purposefully Now, where each week she shares actionable wisdom that points the way towards living a richer life in relationships, finances, and spirit. Elle’s mission is to motivate and encourage everyone to create the life they want.
