6 Ways To Start ‘Living Big’ (& How It Will Instantly Change Your Life For The Better)
Are you doing everything you can to achieve your dreams?
getty "Living Big" is a mindset of living with abundance. Now the abundance is not what you own, or have, it is what you share. There are as many wonderful ways to Living Big as there are water drops in an ocean, needles on an evergreen tree, grains of sand on a beach.
Living Big is learning to generously share yourself, your stories, and enjoy the exciting connections that develop. It's putting yourself out into the world and embracing the things that once scared you. It can change your life and increase your happiness and even your self-assuredness. There are people who are too afraid to put themselves out there, but this is the key to Living Big and making it work for you, so it's important to learn how to do it!
But what exactly does this concept mean, and how can you use it in your everyday life? Simply put, Living Big means taking every opportunity that comes your way. It means seeing these opportunities and trying your best to make every day another chance for you to succeed and be happy.
You make choices all the time about how you're going to handle situations or how you're going to choose to live our lives. Living Big simply means you're learning to open up to the world and share yourself so that you're living your best possible life in return!
How can you start using Living Big in your life? Here are 6 ways you can share your talent and amazing self with the world:
1. Shift your focus to positive things.
Human beings are programmed to see the negative in life, and so it can take some time to stop focusing on this when something good happens to you. And it's important not to dwell on the negative and to instead embrace the positive effects in your life. Focus on being abundant in the areas that count, like generousness, innovation, creativity, resilience, honesty, and happiness.
These positive expressions will make sure that you're living life according to a healthy moral compass and will draw similarly-minded people to you as well. Living Big guarantees that you're looking at the world in a new light, making certain that you're noticing the goodness in the world and striving to achieve it in every aspect of your life.
2. Live with humility and gratitude.
Have you taken the time to notice everything life is giving to you, and to be grateful for it? The abundance around you is unimaginably amazing! You live in a fascinating system designed to sustain our lives.
You only need to breathe, eat, drink, sleep, work, and play in order to live in this awesome system. And the miracle of support keeps on happening, every moment of every day. This is whether you are aware of it or not. The greater your awareness, the greater your humility and gratitude.
When you live with humility, you begin to recognize that every morning, you're given a new chance to make the most out of your life, simply by waking up!
Part of Living Big is in recognizing the areas where you can be grateful and then being grateful for them. You get to pursue many wonderful things in this big, beautiful world, and every day is an opportunity to make certain that you're in the practice of saying, "Thank you!" whether it's to ourselves, the people who help you, the planet that supports you, or the universe that sustains you.
3. Appreciate the freedom that you have.
Freedom is not something someone gives you. It is something you take. So how can you truly appreciate this power and the ability you have to pursue the things you want in life?
Stop what you're doing sometimes. Step outdoors and take a deep breath. Smell the fresh air, feel the breeze on your skin, and look at the sky and see its magnificent, ever-changing picture.
It is all here for you. It is always here, nurturing, feeding you. It costs you nothing to appreciate it. You occasionally get so caught up in trying to move forward that you forget the amazing things you already have. It's really important to literally stop and smell the roses every once in a while, just so you can ground yourself and appreciate your life and the world around you.
Create a commitment and every day, recognize your freedom and embrace your goals. Understand that they are possible, and go for it! Then see how accepting your freedom and your chance to do something wonderful in this world will change your life for the better. When you live enthusiastically with the knowledge that you have choices on how to respond to everything that comes your way, you will be able to see the big picture that you're striving toward, and you'll gain some insight into how to bring your passion to life.
And when you need grounding, step back out into the world, breathe in the air, and remember to be thankful for all that you have and all that you've worked toward!
4. Live your dreams like they're already happening.
The great American mythologist Joseph Campbell described the importance of “Following your bliss.” Your dreams will take you on a life-changing and ever-evolving journey that will grow and thrive as you do. And as you live big, they will change and become even better, new dreams replacing and building on the dreams you've already achieved.
In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, you learned the importance of staying on your path with friends who love you and fighting for your dreams no matter how hard things get. Living Big encourages you to do the same.
You are all looking for something out in the world that is missing inside of you. Where is the answer? It is inside of everyone. Sometimes, you just haven't recognized it yet. The more curious you are about your dreams, the more you nurture them to life, and the bigger you'll live!
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5. Living Big will teach you about perseverance and faith in the impossible.
Ask yourself the following questions:
- Why not follow my dreams?
- Why can’t I make my life the way it most matters to me?
- Why can’t I be unstoppable?
- Why can’t failures and mistakes lead me to success?
- Why can’t I imagine a successful future as though it has already happened?
When you look at closed doors around you as opportunities instead of losses, you'll start to realize that you're capable of so much more! Imagine yourself as a successful person who achieved all of their dreams, and then ask these question. Once you've pictured yourself where you want to be, work backward to discover what steps you think you needed to take to get there. It is all waiting for you, and it's possible!
The greater your ability to trust in your dreams, the stronger you are. The greater is your perseverance to achieve your dreams. Remind yourself every day of the abundance around you.
Your dreams are your joyous compass to surrender, to create your success. Living Big is understanding that the world is available for you to thrive no matter what.
6. It will teach you discipline and to love and accept yourself.
Following a structure — any structure — requires discipline. Living Big and looking through the world to see the possibilities will require effort and discipline as well.
And as you practice being grateful for your opportunities and the blessings in your life, you'll begin to appreciate and love yourself as well. After all, you're the reason that you're accomplishing your goals in life!
The more disciplined you are, the greater your self-love and the better the results in your life. Living Big is something everyone wants to achieve. Yet, wanting something is not enough.
Curiosity, self-discipline, and healthy connections bring light into our world. You can use these to overcome the areas where you might need help or are lacking a bit, and still look at the world with a smile and an attitude of thankfulness.
Being disciplined is loving yourself. Living Big is loving yourself with empowerment and sharing this with the world. Enjoy a better life and live big!
You deserve to be happy in life and to have the opportunity to fulfill your dreams. Living Big will help open these options to you and teach you to appreciate everything you have in life, even as you strive for bigger, better things.
Open yourself to possibilities and you can become the change you want to see in your own life!
Suzanne Kyra is a registered clinical counselor, empowerment speaker, and award-winning author. In addition to being an expert in individual, couple, family and professional development, she is an expert in Living Big. Go to her website, SuzanneKyra.com, to learn more about all of her personal and professional development programs, blogs and free information on How To Live Big and Live the Life You Love. To order her award-winning book Welcome Home To Yourself, on how to live a better life go to Amazon.ca.