Four Simple Tips to Living a Fulfilling Life That Counts For Something

Everybody would like to live a fulfilling life. I am living one right now and I thought I would share with you four tips to my fulfillment.

TIP 1 Know your gifts.

Every person has been given special talents by God. These are things that just come naturally to you. For some that may be the gift of music and the ability to play and instrument, others might have the gift of the gab and be able to hold conversations with a wide range of people. It is handy in life to find your gift and spend quite a time in your life developing that gift. As a musician you don't even have to be in a band these days you can record your music and upload it onto YouTube. I have a gift of encouragement. I have a real talent at spotting people's gifts and encouraging them to excel in them.

Take the time to invest in your gift. If money is needed, find the money as time and effort doing what you are good at brings a lot of happiness.

TIP 2 Find a way that you can give back.

No matter what your religion we have to admit that most of us on earth have been blessed. We have a great country, that is a land of opportunity and even though things can be tough to live and get buy for some of us, we have a lot to thank God for. Some people reading this go to church and most of them give money to their church, but others among you might not go to church. Whatever it is that you believe in; know that giving to others can be a very rewarding thing to do.

If you are not giving, do some research and find a good charity or organisation that is doing good work and start to give. You will be pleased with the feeling you get each time you give, a thought that your money is making the world a better place.

TIP 3 Love the unlovely.

Most people have friends that they love for different reasons and people that they don't like for different reasons. The people that are the loneliest in the world most often have habits and ways about them that are not attractive. Take the extra five minutes to listen to one of these people or to comment on something good that they do or say. You know most people have a bit of wisdom, if we are patient enough to hear it. Share you love around and take the undesirables out for a cup of coffee, you might be surprised who your real friends are after that!

TIP 4 Try to see the good in people and things.

Newspapers sell each day simply because the world feeds itself on bad news. The more we read the bad, the better we feel as our life isn't as bad as the person's in the paper.

Anyone can say something bad about a person. Gossip is so easy to do. But seeing the good in a person is a good quality to foster. Try and be on the lookout for good things to say to people that will brighten their day. If they write a good memo write to them and tell them it was good. If you colleague has a nice dress on, tell her it is really nice. Don't ask her where she got it. That's like saying you want to go and buy your own just like her! If a colleague has an attractive cologne on, tell him you are not coming on to him, but his aftershave is nice. You never really know how a persons life really is inside the masks we wear. You comment could really lift a person's day.

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