Live Your Best Life In The BEST Way

Wouldn’t you agree that living your life to the fullest is determined by how you live your life?

Of course, it also depends on how you define your way of life.

Moreover, what elements you perceive as capable of making your life full also are the determining factors.

Therefore, whether you live your best lifeor not depends on your understanding and practice of life.

In short, it depends on your lifestyle and habits more than anything else.

Your lifestyle is the manner of living you have adopted that reflects your values and attitudes.

Everyone has the right to choose his or her own way of life, isn’t it?

Well, not completely because sometimes people are bound by the lifestyle of their religion, culture, society, or community.

In any case, there are many ways to live.

It’s possible for every person to consider that their way of living is the best.

Indeed, that is possible!

There is no one absolute way of life.

You can live your best life now and forever, in your own way. However, for that you might need to make some adjustments.

In that respect, it’s important for you to understand that there are some fundamentals of life that are common to all best ways of living.

If you put them into practice, you could bring happiness into your life, making it the best!

Before we go any further, let’s get our definitions and facts right.

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.” ~Albert Einstein

What Does Way Of Life Mean

According to the Collins dictionary, way of life means the behavior and habits that are typical of a particular person or group, or that are chosen by them.

It comprises of your practices, daily rituals, and traditions. In fact, these determine whether you live your life to the fullest.

No, I definitely do not mean that you fill your life with irrational dogmas and superstitions.

I mean that you cultivate some behaviors and habits based on scientific facts and spiritual wisdom, and incorporate them into your lifestyle.

I’m not referring to or discussing any religious or spiritual way of life in particular.

This is a general post about the common and most basic behaviors and habits that can help improve your life, irrespective of your religious or spiritual beliefs or views.

Let’s know the way of life that could fit in your lifestyle to make it better and the best.

“Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.” ~ Herman Hesse

How To Live Your Best Life

Well, the answer lies in your question.

To live your life to the fullest, you need to practice the BEST way of life.

Here, BEST is the acronym for Breathing, Emotions, Senses, and Thoughts.

In addition to what you are already doing to live to the fullest, try to improve your technique of breathing, filter your emotions, control your senses, and be careful with your thoughts.

Your concept of the best life is a life full of love, happiness, positivity, and peace. Isn’t it?

Of course, it could be more as per your likes and interests.

But these BEST principles of life are some fundamentals of a good way of living that everybody needs to understand and implement in life to live the best life.

Probably you already do that as these are based on age-old time proven universal wisdom.

However, no harm going through them to check if you missed on anything that you should make a part of your life.

Breathing

Breathing is more than just inhaling and exhaling of air. There is an art and science of breathing.

It’s one of the most essential factors of life. Good breathing makes all the difference and promotes healthy living.

In ancient India, the sages and philosophers discovered that the right way of breathing made you feel more relaxed. It made you feel good and alert.

They concluded that correct breathing techniques will bring you vitality, longevity, and personal power.

Did you notice that the animals that breathe slowly live the longest? Like the tortoise, giraffe, and elephant. Whereas, the animals that breathe rapidly, live the shortest. Like dog, cats, and rabbits.

Moreover, breathing is also linked to your other life activities, including emotions and thoughts.

You may experience change in your breathing when you are sad or happy, angry or calm, and when you sleep or are awake.

The other way around, your control and regulation of breathing can help you manage and mitigate the consequences of your fluctuating emotional and thinking states.

Therefore, incorporating correct breathing in your way of life will help you make your life stable, thus happy and peaceful.

Do you know that with the practice of our normal breathing we use only one-tenth of the total capacity of our lungs? Instead, we should try to maximize this use.

“When the breath wanders the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed the mind too will be still, and the yogi achieves long life. Therefore, one should learn to control the breath.” ~ Svatmarama

What to do

Practice deep breathing. It increases the breathing efficiency per breath.

As per the scientific facts, the normal breath rate is 15 to 18 breaths per minute. In deep breathing, this rate is reduced to about 4 to 8 breaths per minute.

The ancient wisdom says that the fewer or longer your breaths, the longer is your life.

What you should do is diaphragmatic breathing. It helps you relax, surge your energy levels, and keep you calm.

According to Wikipedia, in diaphragmatic or deep breathing, air enters the lungs, and the belly expands. This deep breathing is marked by expansion of the abdomen rather than the chest when breathing.

It is considered to be a healthier way to breathe and a useful form of complementary and alternative treatment.

You should reduce on shallow or rapid breathing, also known as chest breathing.

Diaphragmatic breathing is also one of the most important foundation practices for meditation. After learning from an expert, you should consciously practice diaphragmatic breathing.

Remember, the breath is intimately connected to the autonomic nervous system and the mind.

“Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts.” ~ Thích Nhất Hạnh

Therefore, breath regulation and diaphragmatic breathing even helps calm your mind, enhance your cognitive and mental abilities, and help you live your best life.

Deep breathing is an excellent way of interrupting the ‘Fight or Flight’ response. I hope now you know why in such situation you are asked to count till 10 and take deep breaths!

Emotions

Emotions are important in life. We deal with emotions all the time.

To the extent that we love to use emoticons in our writing and digital interaction as well, don’t you too! 

Sometimes, we lay emphasis to our emotions more than anything else, such that we let it take us for a ride.

But the emotional roller coaster ride is not always pleasant. Sometimes, the ups and down of emotions can take a toll on your mind and body.

Emotions can be negative as well as positive. They incite corresponding moods or motivation within us. Remember that not all emotions are true.

Especially, negative emotions can be an obstacle to living your best life. Even being overwhelmed and flooded with positive emotions takes you off the balance and make you feel uncomfortable.

“Feelings are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf.” ~Jonatan Mårtensson

What to do

To live your best life, you need to maintain a balance of emotions and try not to go to extremes.

Its okay to enjoy and express emotions, but don’t make yourself vulnerable to suffering by getting too attached to these emotions.

Don’t tie yourself to your emotions, as these are the waves that come and go. It’s wise to anchor yourself in something concrete and then enjoy or experience these tides of emotions.

The ancient Chinese believed that excess emotions caused damage to qi, the life force, and eventually damaged the vital organs.

Don’t surrender yourself and drift away in the emotional storms, as sometimes excessive emotions can be irrational and counterproductive.

Balance and moderation of emotions is the key to happiness in life.

“Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.” ~ Joel Osteen

Ways to deal with emotions

If you indulge in negative emotions, then you might suffer from physiological injury, mental traumas, estranged relationships, and psychological issues.

• Instead, you can choose and try not to react in situations of emotional conflict.
• Divert attention to your breathing.
• Focus on the positive aspects or affirmations.
• Come to an understanding that the situation is temporary, and it will pass.
• Make an offer of positive emotion and display it to counter the negative emotions.
• Avoid blockage of emotional channels by choosing positive ways to release emotions

However, you need to make your choices depending upon the circumstances.

You may require expressing your emotions rather than holding them based on your assessment and discretion.

But negative emotions can never help you lead a happy life.

You will love your life only if you have a healthy and positive emotional state.

If you make efforts to keep your emotions in check and to develop inner happiness, you’ll have more of healthy relationships that are conducive to healthy living.

Senses

Senses and sensual pleasures seem to be the spice of life.

The five senses, sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch help you live a 5-dimensional life.

These are the basic senses, however, there are many other senses considered as non-traditional and non-human that you can find out here.

But the lack of any sense faculty or body sense organ does not make your life meaningless.

You can still live your life and make it enjoyable and memorable.

While the senses are good, you should try not to be overly dependent on them. Enjoy the senses, but don’t let them rule you.

Dependency on the sensual pleasures provided by the senses may turn you as a victim instead of making you victorious.

Lack of control over the senses may also alter your perception, judgment, and make you take irrational decisions that may even harm your life.

For example, you like the taste of certain food, and you decide to have more of it than required.

Conversely, you limit your diet and have less than what is required because it doesn’t satisfy your palette in spite of being beneficial.

Therefore, you need to lead a sense-controlled way of life to live to the fullest.

“The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.” ~ Rene Descartes

What to do

Your mind is the master of all the senses. It has the power to control and limit your sensory desires.

You need to develop this control center so that the senses are harnessed to a more efficient and productive life for healthy living.

Meditation is, of course, the defacto exercise to let the mind control the reins of the senses.

The practice of inner meditation besides helping in self regulation of the body and mind also helps you experience living without the dependency and use of senses.

Try meditating for a few minutes on a daily basis. Then gradually increase the duration of the meditation time period.

You may meditate by concentrating on your breath, on some imaginary point, on some mantra or chanting of words while keeping your eyes closed.

“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.” ~ Confucius

However, there are many other ways of meditating. There is also a ways of meditating that uses the senses – it’s called mindful meditation.

In that, you live in the moment experiencing the sensory stimuli. When you eat, you attentively observe the look of the food, its smell, and taste.

When you go for your morning walk, you attentively hear the sounds of birds, watch the surroundings, smell the air, and feel your body, being in the moment.

Sensory fulfillment is good and conducive for healthy living, such that it does not make you addictive and keeps you in charge.

The right way of using your senses can help you live your best life.

Thoughts

Some researches indicate that your brain produces or processes around 50,000 to 70,000 thoughts per day.

This is quite a lot, and managing your thoughts is a serious and tedious business.

Statistically, you’re bombarded with a thought every alternate second.

While some of these thoughts may be helpful, meaningful, and useful, a majority of them may be counterproductive, including negative thoughts.

Negative thoughts induce negativity and lead you to behave negatively. This can lead to negative perceptions, negative attitude, and overly negative way of living.

If you find a way so that less number of thoughts are processed or produced, and a way to filter out the negative thoughts, then you may be able to live a better life.

“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.” ~ Swami Vivekananda

What to do

This is easy to guess. All you need to do is see, feel, think, and do positively.

Everything is related to and results in thoughts.

1) Think Positive

Positive thinking and optimism is the way to counter negative experiences and negative thoughts.

By adopting a positive way of life, you majorly experience and process positive thoughts, and thus turn the invasion of thoughts in your favor.

2) Feel Positive

Thoughts and emotions are also interlinked.

Thoughts may excite certain emotions and emotions may produce certain thoughts. On the other hand, emotion is also considered as a thought.

Therefore, if you feel good, you are likely to think good and positive.

3) See Positive

Your sensory perception may be the root of your thoughts. For example, your brain generates or processes thoughts based on what you see through your eyes or visualize in your mind.

Now, if you try to not let your eyes wander – this may help you face less number of thoughts.

Photo Credit – Karolina Szymkiewicz

Do you remember the three monkeys of Mahatma Gandhi? It is originally a Japanese pictorial proverb. But it makes sense – see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. When there is no negative input from the senses, your thoughts are more likely to be positive.

4) Do Positive

Actions speak louder than words, and even thoughts. No matter what, force yourself to indulge in positive actions and behavior.

Thus, you may even convert negative thoughts into positive outcomes. For example, get involved in community or social service.

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” ~ Marcus Aurelius

While there are many ways to remain positive and live your best life, one is mostly missed out by many.

There is an inextricable relationship between breathing and thoughts.

When your breathing is controlled, your mind is calm; you process less number of thoughts.

Meditation combined with positive self-affirmation leads you to a completely positive mental state.

In the deepest and highest levels of meditation, you go beyond the emotions and thoughts, into a stage of breathless body and mindless state.

For some, that is the best way of life to be lived to experience the ultimate ecstasy and enlightenment.

“When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.” ~ Ramana Maharshi

Conclusion

Adopt and include the BEST way of life for living your best life.

1. Control and regulate your breath by practicing deep breathing. You may live long, be stress-free, happy, and peaceful.
2. Keep your emotions in check. Don’t get carried away. Root out negative emotions, avoid emotional conflicts and keep the emotional channels open.
3. Be in charge of your senses, don’t over indulge. Practice meditation and mindfulness. Don’t become dependent on your senses and sensory perceptions.
4. Have positive thoughts and always be positive in everything. See good, hear good, speak good, as well as think and act good.

One of the keys to bringing happiness into life is balance and moderation. Honor the limits, and avoid extremes or addictions.

In cases of upsetting emotions and thoughts, just shift your attention to your breath.

The body, breath, and mind are linked. And so are emotions and thoughts.

Therefore, proper breathing habit and practice of meditation will help you in living your best life now and forever.

This is the way of life incorporating the BEST principles, which includes the elements of breathing, emotions, senses, and thoughts.

However, this is not a comprehensive and exhaustive lifestyle solution as there are many other elements that help you to live life to the fullest. Read this post to know some of them.

Over to you –

How do you try to live your best life? What is the way of life you believe makes your life full and complete? Share in the comments below.

Do You Focus on the Guaranteed Past or Future

What we believe controls our lives. It reduces our choices. But it does not have to be that way.

Change your beliefs and open up doors you never imagined existed.

Choose to look at life differently and you can have the life of your dreams. Question everything. Especially question what you are “supposed” to do.

I was supposed to retire at age 50 after 30 years at IBM with a real pension and fully paid benefits. They were promised to us in writing every year. And that was my plan for 23 years…

Until the day the IBM CEO decided he deserved our pensions and benefits more than we did, converting our real pensions into illegal at the time cash pensions.

Suddenly, the guaranteed past and future were gone!

Someone Moved My Cheese

I had consciously traded hours of personal time as overtime and better pay elsewhere for what we thought was a stable retirement and benefits that had gone * poof * overnight.

A salesman who happened to have a degree in accounting deciphered the paperwork we were given and realized our pensions were worth only half their original value.

He rented a meeting room at a major hotel chain and word spread through the IBM grapevine that all were invited to hear the truth.

I would have to work the remaining 7 years plus 17 more years to earn back what I had lost – if they were not taken again. I had no confidence they would not be (and for the record, they were years later).

In my mind there were only two choices to be made:

• Become the “Norma Rae” of IBM

• Resign and totally change my life overnight

While I seriously considered the first option, I logically concluded that we could spend decades fighting the good fight, win a few battles, but be highly unlikely to win the war.

That was not the only reason. IBM was not what it once was.

From 18 field techs when I moved to Texas, we were down to only 3 of us who serviced mainframes, and I was the only one who would answer the phone at night and on weekends.

My phone rang nearly every night. I was adept at diagnosing the issue, ordering parts, and getting some sleep, putting calls off until morning more often than not – but exhaustion set in.

Marketing was short on personnel, too.  I ended up managing a project (outside my training and job description) that had weekly meetings 4 hours away. I was overtime before I even got there.

Attending a meeting half asleep is one thing – running them quite another. I found myself waking up while driving not remembering the last ten miles.

Building My Own Maze

So I tried to resign…for weeks I tried to get my Manager to accept my two weeks notice. [I suspect he hoped I’d change my mind if he avoided me long enough.]

My co-workers could not imagine my choice.  Just the thought of leaving terrified them! They said:

“You have 23 years invested – you can’t resign with 23 years invested.”

They were focused on the past; I was focused on the future.

The company had changed and the reduction in how overtime was paid, reduced pension and benefits were too little incentive.

Where my co-workers believed their only choice was to stay, I knew I’d rather build my own maze to hunt for my missing cheese than stay where half the cheese had gone missing and much of that was now moldy.

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Why I Had the Confidence to Leave

I had no clear plan when I left; I only knew I did not want to stay. I was not afraid to leave; I was not stuck, and I knew why.

During my years at IBM, I drove 50,000+ miles a year.  I had some motivational tapes I listened to regularly, especially Norman Vincent Peele and Zig Ziglar.

I would leave tapes playing continuously in the background, and they changed my life.

Instead of my mind instantly jumping to “what did I do wrong“, it was quiet and peaceful.

I had accidentally happened upon the way to reprogram my negative thoughts, what Zig Ziglar would call “stinkin’ thinking.”

I share this story in the hopes that others will reprogram their thinking so they can have what their heart most desires. Moreover, also so they can go freelance as I have.

No More J.O.B. (Just Over Broke)

Somewhere in my time online, I ran across a young man about 23 years old.

He asked me to edit some writing he had done, and he had the most unusual, but the compelling manner of writing. He finally admitted that the only books he had ever read were comic books, and he wrote in that style!

He told me his story about never having had a J.O.B. which he called “Just Over Broke” and never wanting one.

I agreed with him that I would not have another J.O.B. in my lifetime. I’ve been offered many jobs since I left IBM. A recruiter offered me a community manager job just recently.

But once you’ve decided to design your own maze, why would you ever want to be trapped in a maze of someone else’s design?

Jobs are fine for others, but for the free of heart freedom calls.

“All things are possible for him that believeth” ~ Mark 9:23 ~ Norman Vincent Peale

My best advice is to take the shortcut of finding a mentor willing to offer you guidance.  Going it alone is possible, but it will take you a lot longer and delay your success.

Over to you –

What do you focus on – your past or future? Did you design your own maze to hunt for your cheese and experience the Aha!Moment in your life? Share your thoughts and experiences in the comments below.

How to Live a Meaningful Life Without Knowing Your Life’s Purpose

Do you remember when you first noticed that emptiness at the core of your being?

It felt as though something had been carved out of you, didn’t it?

And, no matter how hard you try to make it go away, the emptiness remains.

Stuffing your life with busy-ness, and acquiring more stuff, hasn’t made a dent in it.

Zoning out in front of the TV, playing on-line games, or over-indulging with food and alcohol only dulls the ache.

Still though, you know there has to be something that will fill the emptiness, and stop the pain.

Moreover, any number of people will tell you that finding your life’s purpose is what will make you feel better.

If so many people believe it, then it must be true.

“What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.” ~ Buckminster Fuller

Challenges with Finding Your Life’s Purpose

So you follow somebody’s formula, or do their meditation, or sign up for their process and hope they’ll show you the way to your life’s purpose.

But what if their way of doing it does not work for you?

What if none of those methods give you anything more than a temporary sense of relief?

And what if they do not motivate you to get off the couch, or stop overeating, or stop whatever else is not filling that empty hole?

When the formulas and processes do not deliver what you hoped they would when the emptiness remains and feels even bigger, it is no wonder you get depressed.

But not to worry, there is another way to fill the emptiness.

“One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Filling Up The Emptiness Is Easier Than You Think

Since the emptiness is inside you, it makes sense that the way to fill it is inside you as well.

It is true.

Within you, just waiting for you to pay attention to them are the seeds of happiness and satisfaction.

In Buddhism, seeds are called bija, and they have a wonderful characteristic: they are always ready to sprout and grow when the conditions are right.

What does that mean for you?

It means all the potential you had as a child is still there. The things that didn’t have a chance to grow or didn’t grow well is just waiting for you to notice and nourish them.

All you have to do is figure out how to identify and encourage what you want to grow.

Moreover, I can show you how to do that.

How To Recognize What’s Meaningful To You

Figuring out what’s meaningful to you is inside-out work, and pretty simple.

You get an idea, or a spark of interest in something and let it move you to take action. And you do it without knowing exactly where that action is going to lead.

In the beginning, it is about discovering ideas and activities that give you a sense of satisfaction. It is exploring them moment by moment, and day by day, and seeing where they lead you.

First it is a week; then it is a month or maybe two, and then it dawns on you that you are going in a direction that makes you feel happy and satisfied.

In his book “So Good They Can’t Ignore You”, Cal Newport tells the story of Ryan, who did odd jobs for extra money. Picking wild blueberries and selling them by the side of the road got him the most cash.

Next, he started selling the extra produce from his family’s garden. Then he took over the garden and made it bigger.

In high school, he rented 10 acres from a local farmer. Ryan continued to expand upon what he was doing until he bought his own farm.

These are all things you might expect the son of a farmer to do, but Ryan’s not from a farming family.

He is simply doing work that satisfies him and gives his life meaning.

There’s something else about living a meaningful life you need to know.

Just because Ryan started making his meaningful life as a kid, don’t think for a minute you cannot start at any age.

My dentist’s bookkeeper, who is about 45 or 50, has the mindset that regular people, like her and her husband, have jobs and go to them 5 days a week.

Then her husband got laid off and didn’t get another job.

Instead, after finding, fixing and selling an old Hammond Organ, he began looking for more of them so he could repeat the process.

His wife thinks his traveling around finding broken organs is pretty weird and wishes he would just get a regular job, with a regular paycheck. She does admit, though, that he is happy.

Exactly what sparked his interest in doing something like this does not matter.

How you manifest what’s meaningful to you is as individual as you are. A meaningful life does not limit you to one mode of expression.

Nor does it decree starting at any particular age, at any particular time in your life, or in any particular fashion.

All that matters is that you start . . .even when it’s painful as hell.

At the time I heard this story, my life was in the toilet. My business had tanked, a start-up with a partner was crashing and burning, and my life was made hideous with panic and anxiety attacks.

Something had to change, and since I was responsible for where I had wound up, it had to be me.

In the beginning, I resorted to making decisions by determining which choice caused the greatest anxiety.

The scariest ones were what my heart wanted me to do.

I struggled to go where these choices led me. Thankfully, a faint but persistent inner voice kept saying, ‘Yes, this is what you need to do to get the meaningful life you want.’

Slowly I learned to listen to myself, and how I felt. I trusted myself more and became more confident.

Today, a year later, I am a freelance writer, happily working hard at my craft. I have the self-fulfilling life I want, and the emptiness at the core of my being is gone.

Here’s how you get started.

Starting to Live a Meaningful Life Is Easy

First of all, you do not have to do it the way I did – out of desperation! Nor do you have to lose a job first as the Hammond Organ man did.

Begin identifying and encouraging what’s already inside of you by doing these 5 things:

1. Give yourself permission to follow and act on your inclinations, those inner promptings that want to take you in a different direction from what you are used to. Taking action on those bits of inspiration is what creates meaning.
2. No goal going where those inner promptings lead is an intuitive process. It builds upon itself, according to an inner plan that gets revealed bit by bit.
3. Be open to new possibilities. Ask yourself, ‘What if I did this instead of that’ Take action based on what feels right to you. Alternatively, do as I had to do at first: go with what scares the heck out of you because you can sense it is where your heart wants to go.
4. Let your curiosity slip its leash. Have fun, explore, and experiment. Track down answers to questions that pop up. Nothing is too small to pursue.
5. Understand ‘going with your gut’ is not an exact science. You’ll need to take risks, and accept you’ll make mistakes. It is the process by which you are learning to have more trust in yourself.

Thomas Merton put it this way: ‘We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.’

This process helps you make those choices.

What Satisfies You

Even though you desire to make a change and believe it is going to make you happy, that does not mean you do not have to work at making it happen.

Help yourself out by expanding your self-awareness with a bit of daily journaling.Do just a little-written reflection on your day and your feelings.

1. What gave you a feeling of satisfaction, or made you feel good?
2. Did you feel prompted to do something, but either drew back or talked yourself out of it?
3. When you did that, what story did you tell yourself?
4. What could you do to make taking action less risky?
5. What new story could you tell yourself?

Looking closely at things, you can see what makes you happy, and where old habits of thinking are getting in your way.

“But I do know what bliss is: that deep sense of being present, of doing what you absolutely must do to be yourself.” ~ Joseph Campbell

The Rewards of Living a Meaningful Life

This process is a simple and organic method of exploring who you really are.

As you take one step and then wait for the next step to manifest, you are learning to trust yourself, and this boosts your confidence.

Plus what you are doing rewards you along the way, with lots of meaningful and satisfying moments. They are the built-in encouragement that lets you know you are going in the right direction.

Embracing what satisfies you and makes you happy is how the emptiness gets filled and the pain goes away.

It is the only way to do it, and the best time to do it is right now.

Seriously!

Give yourself permission to live a meaningful life, and then just go for it!

You have nothing to lose except the emptiness inside.

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ~ Maya Angelou

Over To You –

Too often we talk ourselves out of doing things because we imagine what people will think, or say, or how they will judge us.

What would you do if no one was watching? How brave would you be? Imagine how that would feel. How much did you love that feeling? Please share in the comments so you can inspire other people including me.