Living A Delicious Life - Two Key Ingredients

When you think of the life you have lived and are living,  does the word delicious get included in your description? This is a profound question that can lead to some great soul searching, which I strongly encourage! To be honest, I can use delicious to describe parts of my life, but not my entire life.

Is it too much to ask to have more yumminess in our life?  I think it’s up to us.  We cannot control what Life brings, but we can always control how we respond to what is brought to our table. I’m bringing this up because it’s something I’m working on. I haven't mastered it…yet!  

The first ingredient needed in living a delicious life is mindset. Imagine believing that everything in life happens FOR you, not TO you.  Just that paradigm shift in thought will take you a long way to experiencing more flavorsome outcomes. It’s more than just a positive attitude. It is a way of BEING - it’s gratitude.

The next ingredient starts with a personal experience. About 3 years ago, when I was about to turn 60, I had a gnawing feeling in my gut that there had to be something more to life than this! I knew something huge was missing, but I didn’t know what.  Do you know the answer?  It was ME!!!! So the second ingredient to a luscious life is YOU! 

How do you know if you are missing in your life? Do you feel like you just run through your day, but don’t really experience it?  If someone asks you what you did last week that was memorable, could you tell them? Does time just keep going by faster and faster and it’s all a blur?  These are classic signs that YOU are MIA (missing in action).  More specifically, you being present and aware. I just listened to an interview with Ronda Rene, Founder of Divine Navigation.  I like the distinction she made.  She said in order to be present, you have to be in your body. In the book Dubliners, James Joyce wrote: “Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body”. Do you ever feel like your essence lives outside of your body? Or do you feel like you live in your head?  

These questions are meant to stimulate some mental digestion of how you are living your life.
It’s a big topic, of which I will touch on more in the future.  For now, just know you can create a more delicious life with a mindset of gratitude and including yourself by BEing present.

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Till next time, be present, eat joyfully my friend!