Start off with a few basic pages, and then build on it. Your life handbook is your personal manual to live your best life, containing your mission statement, values, goals, personal strengths, blind spots, and action plans. Are you putting any parts of your life on hold? What is one area of your life you have been putting off, avoiding or denying? Uncover that and start working on it. Also, live in full alignment with your purpose (#12), commandments (#13) and values (#14). Every one of us have our own set of ethics and principles. Values are the essence of what makes you, you. What adages and principles do you want to follow in your life? Define your personal commandments to live your best life. What can you start doing immediately that will let you live 100% in alignment with your purpose? How can you live true to your purpose within every situation you are in, every second of the day?
Read: How To Find Your Life Purpose (7-part series) Set the mission statement for your life, one that will drive you to live your life to the fullest. This means knowing who you are and what you represent. Don’t rely on the feeling of familiarity but focus on what will enable you to grow the most. Your life is something to be experienced, not coasted through. The latter is definite and much more empowering. You can wait for opportunities, or you can get out there and create your own. Anything is possible as long as you set your mind, heart, and soul to it. Focus on WHAT you want first, before you think about HOW to do it. That’s the most constructive thing you can do in any situation. Instead focus on the things you can act on. Rather than think “what if,” think “next time.” Don’t think about the things you can’t change.Stop waiting for others around you to do something and take action yourself instead. Stop complaining about your problems and work on them instead. Don’t be like the howling dog, always howling and never doing anything. It’s better to be an original version of yourself rather than be an exact duplicate of someone else. Stop trying to please other people or to be someone else.
Life is short, so live in the present moment.
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