Post written by Sherri Kruger. Follow me on Twitter.
Advice on what you should do is plentiful.
There are as many ways to live a life as there are people on the planet.
How you live your life is up to you.
What you do today is up to you.
You can choose to do things other think you should do or you can do things you think you should do.
Don’t like eating in the lunch room? Take it outside, go for a walk or eat at your desk.
Don’t feel like entertaining 45 kids at your daughters birthday party? Invite 5 instead or take a family road trip.
Getting married but don’t want a traditional ceremony? Then don’t. Head off to Hawaii or Mexico or Australia and get married on the beach or have a small gathering in your parent’s backyard.
Did you just get married and now want to travel the world instead of “settling down”? Go for it.
Thing is there are no rules to how you live your life. You choose each and everyday to do what you do. You choose to be mean, impatient, angry, hurtful or to hold a grudge in the same way as you choose to be happy, grateful, thoughtful, patient and kind.
Be clear on what you want. This will take some time to sort though and that’s okay.
Realize that you will encounter resistance. People are typically afraid of what they don’t know, what they don’t understand or what lies outside of their comfort zone.
Go for it. Being true to yourself, your morals, your priorities and your values is really the easiest way to live. There are no games and life is just a lot less complicated.
Live according to you.
For more on how to live a life you love check out my book: Your Life | Live it. Love it.
I love it, Sherri! With the bombardment of messages we receive, it is really easy to try to compare all of our desires against the “rules” our culture puts down and then feel like we’re doing something wrong if they don’t match up.
It is YOUR life. I agree that we need to live it and love it!
That is great advice!!! Thanks for sharing Sherri!
Thanks! A good reminder to be true to ourselves. I am a pleaser and often make decisions based on the people surrounding me, which I think it’s OK. I do, however, have to slow down and make sure, that I am being true to myself, which i could do better!
I would add, due to my religious foundation, that living according to God’s rules is also an important consideration!
Live according to you. Absolutely fantastic sentence. Wouldn’t it remove just sooo much weight if we put it into practice!!
Sherri,
Living the way we want to live is great goal to look forward to. We listen to so many expert advices, it often gets confusing and overwhelming. I have started on this process but still have a long way to go before I can say I am free of all judgment.
It makes me happy to know that this post struck a chord with a lot of you. It’s easy to forget that we are actually in control of a lot of what we do and how we react to people and situations. When we remember we’ve got the power to choose it’s empowering!
I love it. There’s too much books, blogs :), tips, how-to, magazines that tell us how to live. They all have the “magic formula”. The best magic formula is the one we create. Thanks Sherri for posting that awesome truth.
I got married in my in-laws’ backyard! It was beautiful. The sky was cloudy, and even threatened rain… but when my bride stepped outside, the clouds literally parted and sunlight came over everyone in the yard.
I especially enjoy that this article about you being you is in Zen FAMILY Habits. So many family articles are about the kids, but I think that the best way to properly raise our kids is to be ourselves. Being yourself is the ultimate life lesson, just ask Hugh MacLeod at Gapingvoid.com.