Living life to the full is a fine philosophy. But in reality, it doesn’t really work like that. In fact, our days are pretty much the same and rather ordinary… So how do we get out of this daily routine that doesn’t make our hearts beat with happiness? I suggest you follow these 3 tips to make every day count.

To make every day count, love

I think the most important thing in life, and especially at the end of our lives, is to have the certainty that we have loved and been loved.

Love is a word as vast as it is profound. We can love a person and also love life.

Unfortunately, loving isn’t always easy. It involves a certain amount of risk. Because, yes, when we love, we take the risk of being disappointed and sad. In life, everything comes to an end, everything disappears: relationships, our environment, what we’ve built up, our work, our children going off to make their own lives…

And I believe that too many of us focus on this part of risk, which implies that we’re going to suffer sooner or later. That’s why we tend to close our hearts.

Yet we don’t talk about the other part of love’s risk. When we love, we take the risk of laughter and wonder. We take the risk of touching eternity.

To live life to the full, it’s essential to love.

So how do we love? First and foremost, you have to focus on what you have, not on what you’d like to have.

So, I invite you to accept your life as it is, and to set out each day in search of all that is good and beautiful in your life. It won’t happen overnight, and you’ll need to repeat this exercise over and over again so that love reigns in your daily life.

Practice gratitude to live life to the fullest

The best exercise for loving is to keep a gratitude journal. Every day, take 5 minutes to write down all the reasons why you’re grateful to be alive today.

At first, it’s not easy to see what makes us happy, simply because we tend to see only the negative.

So, as a first step, find a moment during the day – at bedtime, when you wake up in the morning, during your lunch break – to write down at least 3 reasons why you’re lucky to be alive today.

It could be a person, but it could also be an event. Something you’ve done, something you’ve felt, or something that “fell” into your lap by chance. It could be something you read, something you heard. It can be anything you want, as long as it made you happy.

Write down these 3 reasons and let yourself be overwhelmed by gratitude. Savor the smile, shy at first, that will come over your face.

Dare to make every day count

I loved this sentence in the book “La vie est un fruit” by Benoit Henno:

“Life is an experience.”

Yes, life is an experience, but we’ve forgotten that. Indeed, many of us today are tetanized by fear.

We’re afraid of being judged, of being seen by others. We’re afraid of making decisions and being wrong, or of having to change our minds. In fact, we’re afraid of living experiences, because they’re synonymous with change.

Change, however, is life. Everything changes. Look at the seasons, the child growing up, old age, the moon constantly waxing and waning in our sky… Everything changes, everything is cyclical.

So why not us? Why not our lives?

We don’t like to be afraid, and understandably so. It’s uncomfortable. So we’ve invented a concept that’s totally false and contrary to life itself: we can control everything.

I think part of you knows that. We don’t control anything. We don’t know what this Universe is, what this Earth is, or even what we’re doing here. That’s the mystery of life. Let’s accept it now.

Life is a magical experience!

To make every day count, we could live by this new idea that life is a miracle and that we’re not here to do things “right”, but to test experiments!

We’re here to make mistakes, fall down and get back up again. We’re here to learn, discover and be happy.

Learn more to love life

I suggest you read these 2 complementary articles:

Discover How to get ahead in life: 7 powerful exercises
Discover How to develop intellectual curiosity: 10 powerful tips

I invite you to read this inspiring book:

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma
This s a fascinating book about a man who almost died of a heart attack at just 40, because he was living in excess, with too much work and too much stress. He decides to travel the world to discover the secrets of a happy, successful life. He returns from his trip and reveals all to his former colleague. I wholeheartedly recommend this book, as you’ll discover invaluable advice on how to transform your life. This book is a must-read if you want to be happier.

Thank you very much for reading this article.

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Take care of yourself.