How Do You View Your Life?

The way we live our lives is largely determined by the perspective with which we view our lives.

So, how do you view your life?

Lately, my perspective has been a bit of a paradox. I am young, I see my whole life ahead of me, and eternity after that. Yet, I wake up and focus on holding on to each fleeting moment and hour as if today is the last day I have. The two seem to contradict each other at first, but I don’t choose one or the other. It’s both. It’s always both.

I love seeing people live their best, most beautiful and free lives. I’ve always been wired to try and help make that happen for people, but for a long time, I think I contributed to the opposite. I lacked perspective then, but things have changed. Now, helping others live their best, most beautiful and free lives is the only way I know.

So, again I’ll ask, how do you view your life?

All 7,000,000,000 of us are incredibly unique, one of a kind, true individuals. The world around us seems to always be pushing us into gingerbread man cookie cutters. It doesn’t work, and the best parts of us get cut away. That hurts. I want to see people learn to walk around those cookie cutters and be their true unique selves. But, how do we learn to do that? Back to perspective.

My high school principal used to always remind us how many minutes were in a day. As the knucklehead I was in high school, I dismissed it with jokes. I lacked perspective that he was trying to share with us. Today is all we really have. There’s memories of past, and hopes and plans for the future, but they’re all imagined. They’re great, and they belong, but we can’t actually affect them or control them. So, what are we doing with the thing we can affect (but not totally control): the now?

We hear people ask so often, “what would you do today, if it was your last day?”

Would you just go to class or work and have a normal day, complete the tasks and go home?

Or, would you try to impact each person there in the best way you could?

Would you watch Netflix, sports, movies, shows, and news?

Or, would you spend time with friends and family?

Would you talk about TV, sports, news, and gossip?

Or would you talk about love, and truth, and wisdom, and the things that really matter?

Would you settle for the same old Tuesday?

Or would you live your last day to the fullest?

I know this idea is cliché, romanticized, and idealized, but it isn’t unrealistic.

If we don’t give our lives purpose, we will live purposeless lives. (Relaxation, fun, and self-indulgence don’t create purpose)

Change your perspective, and live on purpose. Find what brings fulfillment to your life. What fills you with joy? What makes you feel fully alive? What makes you feel whole and beautiful (inside and out) and free? Find the answers to these questions and go do that! It literally can’t wait until tomorrow. All we have is today, but today can impact eternity. Especially if all 7,000,000,000 of us do this in our own unique individual way!

Go live your best, most beautiful and free life today, and do it on purpose, and help others do it to.

God wants people living full lives for Him more than He wants us searching for all the right answers.