June Daily Practice: Fall In Love With Your Life

Happy June everyone! I’ve been toying with the idea for a few weeks of creating a free ebook with tips for falling in love with your life, so when I started thinking about what would be a good daily practice for June, this seemed an obvious choice! Years ago, a mentor of mine told me to ‘just fall in love with your life’…and I thought she was nuts. Had she seen my life? It sucked! I wasn’t going to fall in love with THAT.

I fell into the same trap most people fall into, wanting to wait until life was perfect before I fell in love with it. When I have X in the bank, or the right career/husband/sofa/car/dishcloths, then I’d be in love with life. But while it was messy and I wasn’t happy? NO WAY! For months after her advice, I kept asking myself how? How do you fall in love with life? I mean, falling in love just happens, right? It’s not something you can do. You just wait until the stars are in alignment, and the world falls neatly into place, and then ALAKAZAM, you’re in love with life. Right?

But then I realised there are things you can do to start falling in love with your life, even before it gets ‘perfect’ (which is good news, because it’s never perfect – you get the perfect income/career/husband/sofa/car/dishcloth…and then you want MORE – bigger, better, faster). And I also realised that waiting until the stars were in alignment and everything fell into place was a waste of time, and was doing it the wrong way round.

The more you enjoy your life, the easier it is to make your dreams a reality. Achievements become added bonuses instead of the “saviour of your life”. When you’re in love with your life, you’re more likely to take risks and try new things, because you’re happy anyway, you’re not tying your happiness to something that might not work. When we put so much expectation on something, we become terrified of failure, because if that doesn’t work, then what will we do? It becomes the be all and end all, and the pressure is paralysing. When you’re happy anyway, you just go for it, knowing that failure is part of the game and no big deal.

I’ve always been about the ‘how’. How do I do that? How do I make it happen? How? How? How? And over the next 30 days, I’m going to share some of my hows, in the hope that they will help you fall in love with your life too – even thought it’s not perfect, and it’s messy, and you’re not Queen of the Universe and married to the Hottest Guy Alive. It’s your life. You’re living it, right now. Why not make it the best life you can right now? Why not fall in love with it right now?

And if you’ve got some crazy idea that you have to hate your life or it’ll never change, let me ask you something…how long have you hated it for, and has it changed? When you hate your life, you lose confidence, you are miserable, you are depressed and low in energy…and that makes change more difficult. When you love your life, you are happy, full of energy and joie de vivre, full of confidence and courage…and change is a breeze. Trust me on this, falling in love with your life, even if it sucks, will get you the change you deeply desire faster than misery ever will.

And, hey, if not, who cares? You’re enjoying your life anyway!! 😀

So, are you in? Are you going to join the daily practice of Falling In Love With Your Life in June? Leave me a comment below to let me know, and make sure you’re following my Facebook or Twitter pages to make sure you get the daily reminders and ideas to help you fall in love with life! And this month, for every tip I’ll also be sharing an article or blog post I’ve written about that tip, so I’ll be digging into the fabulous Donnaonthebeach archives – you don’t want to miss it!

Love

Donna.x