How to enjoy life? It’s not always easy to feel like you’re enjoying life, when routine eats away at our daily lives and our days tend to look the same. I’m sharing with you 3 magical tricks for living life more intensely!

1 – Enjoy life: always have your say

Sometimes our lives take a path we didn’t expect. We may have come out of school with big dreams and then quickly needed to find a “food job” to pay the bills right away. Unfortunately, 15 years later, we’re still there.

That’s what little Samuel rails against. This job wasn’t the deal. It wasn’t what we dreamed of when we were 10.

How to enjoy life? By not letting life choose for us, by having our say, always!

We don’t have to go with the flow, we don’t have to choose comfort or security. Yes, we don’t have to let life choose for us. We have dreams and it’s up to us to make them come true, us and nobody else!

It’s clear that life won’t always make it easy for us, but even so, we have to hold on to our dreams, because they’re what give us the feeling of living, of really living.

In practical terms, how do you enjoy life?

Make an unfiltered list of the things you’ve always dreamed of doing. In other words, imagine you had all the degrees, all the skills, all the financial means you needed to do what you wanted, so what would you do?
Pick one of those dreams and make it a priority. Find the time to move towards that dream little by little. Yes, you don’t have to leave everything behind, you don’t have to take reckless risks, just start where you are, with what you’ve got and move forward! Make your 10-year-old self proud!

2 – Persevere with your dreams

In the book, 10-year-old Samuel has one professional dream: to be a footballer, and another: to be a writer. The 35-year-old Samuel is not at all athletic, but he has studied literature and tried to get 2 manuscripts published on leaving university, without success.

When he tells little Samuel: “I haven’t managed to get my 2 manuscripts published”, little Samuel says: “So what? Why don’t you try for a 3rd one? I’ve got so many ideas, I could write fifty stories!

That says it all! “So what? We may have dreams, but life isn’t going to bend over backwards to help us realize them, not always anyway. We need to persevere.

How do we make the most of life? By doing the things that matter to us! And when we feel strongly about something, let’s do it again and again until it works.

Did you know that the number one cause of failure is giving up? As long as you don’t give up, you’ll succeed. Maybe not tomorrow or the day after, but you will.

3 – Enjoy life: take risks

Aren’t you tired of being afraid, of being too rarely motivated, of having no energy, of abandoning your projects without even starting them?

The 35-year-old Samuel says to himself “What’s the point?” while the little Samuel says to himself “Just go for it!”

That’s the difference between making the most of life. How much energy do you put into your day? Do you take risks in your day to experience things more intensely? Do you rely on your ideas, desires and dreams?
Taking risks doesn’t mean doing anything. That said, in the book, the two Samuels kick the crap out of their “enemies”, people who have been mistreating them. In the end, it’s not just any old thing. It’s violence, of course. They were both punished for it. One was grounded and the other was fired (punishment for every age).

Taking risks is simply taking an extra step, one that takes us further than usual. It’s doing something for the first time. It can be very simple.

Ask yourself: when was the last time I did something for the first time?
Often, all it takes is accepting an invitation from someone to do something new. Or maybe you just need to go back to your list of dreams, pick one and do something to move forward. It could be just talking about it with someone for the first time. Doing the first internet search or calling an organization about it for the first time…

How do you enjoy life? By taking risks, by always moving forward a little more!

Learn more to love life

I invite you to read these 2 complementary articles:

Discover How to stop making your happiness depend on others? a few pointers
Discover Working on yourself: 10 tips to becoming the best version of yourself

You can also read this inspiring book:

The Life List: A Novel Lori Nelson Spielman
Brett’s mother dies and she is devastated. Sitting down to read the will… A shock awaits her! The life she has planned, carefully thought out, is not what her mother wants for her. Instead, her mother has given her a list of goals she wrote herself when she was 14. She has one year to achieve these life-changing goals.
This is a very touching story, full of drama, humor, joy, suspense and confusion. I loved the twists and turns. What an excellent first novel! I hated for it to end, but read every moment to find out. I can’t wait to read her next novel. Her writing really moves me. You’ll love this book!

Thank you very much for reading this article.

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Take care of yourself.