Do you find life boring or challenging?

I liked what you said about people being surprised accomplishing certain things they never thought they could. I was watching Jim Rohn youtube videos lately and he said that "if you wish to, you could DRASTICALLY change your life if you wish to," which led me to believe that we needed to change our current daily habits if it's not helping us reach our goals.

willc well said! When we are in pain, we tend to get consumed by our pain, and find it difficult to keep moving forward. We begin to live in fear that we do not want to take another misstep or do something that will bring us more pain in our life. Then worse of all, we tend to look back at happier days and feel like the best days are behind us rather than in front of us. Well, the New Year is here, and I am striving on getting things done and being optimistic. BetterDays, I agree that if our habits are hindering our progress in life; then we do need to find time for personal development that will give us the tools to learn good habits that will empower us to make progress in life. Is the person of whom you spoke that you were watching YouTube videos is that person someone that provides self help advice or advice or personal development?

Hi aireanna, Jim Rohn is a motivational speaker who teaches other people how to be successful in life. One of his main teachings is on how to set goals so that we might reach our goals better and faster. I do believe setting goals is very important, so I'm beginning to do more of that lately. And may the year 2013 be the best new year for all of us.

I believe you have pointed out another good factor which is "finding the meaning of our existence" and when we do find it, then our life seems to be more exciting. I also believe that faith in God should be another factor that would help us become grateful for our life, and finding our meaning in our relationship with God should be number 1 in anyone's life and in finding the most important meaning for our existence.

I agree with you that with other people, they simply reject the chance to change their lives for the better. I like the word you used whcih is 'self-fulfilling prophecies' which shows very well how powerful our words and beliefs are and whatever we claim in our lives have the power of making them come true. I remember the saying 'be careful what you wish for, for they could become yours' and I believe many things we do wish for comes true in our lives...so let's all wish only positive things :)

god_is_good, I am sorry to hear that you have had such adversity in your life. I know how it can be when it feels more like you have overcome the obstacles that life had put in your path, and how it seems that at times it feels like more that we are surviving life rather than living our life. I guess as they say that adversity does make us stronger. FInding your purpose and having goals are very important. I think too that you have to learn how to keep yourself motivated because you can have great goals for your life, but you will only accompolish your goals if you remain motivated because some goals take a long time to achieve. I have noticed that some people resist wanting to have a purpose in their life. Even when you try to help them to find meaning in their life they sometimes just want to negatively perceive their life. I think this is sad when people want to create negative self-fulfilling prophecies for their life rather than seeing all the opportunties that life holds.

Perhaps, the challeng is to keep your daily routine from seing boring. What modifications can you make to the daily routine so that you do not find it boring? Spice it up a little so that your daily routine is interesting rather than dull. Think about it we do not like to eat a bland diet every day rather we like a variety of dishes with lots of tasty spices that add flavor. Add some flavor to your daily routine.

I agree. Doing new things...variety makes life more interesting. Someone I think even said that 'variety is the spice of life'. Yes, I believe it's also up to us to make our lives less boring or to put it in a better way, to make our lives more exciting and interesting.

You seem to be a very active person and living an exciting life, aireanna. i think what you're looking at sometimes is a chance to have more relaxation, and I believe all people needs a time to rest, especially those who are working so hard. In my case, I trying to find time for meditation and I think rest and relaxation starts within ourselves so I find that the best way to relax is through prayers and meditation.

Yes, I agree that people needed to be flexible as well. It's important to know when one needs to set different goals when one is not working anymore. I like it when you said that there is time to set goals and a time to relax. I remember the Biblical verse when the Lord said there is time for eating and time for sleeping, a time for working and a time for resting, etc...I can't remember all the words but it says there clearly what you were trying to share in this discussion. I feel that preparation too is important if we want to have better results with our lives. Yes, trying out new things would be good to break out from the routine in our lives. Many good ideas you share here :)

I agree so much with what you said, regz and may I add that usually those who face their challenges ends up victorious in the end. I mean, there are a lot of success stories being told anywhere and they share that before they face their great success, they need to face a lot of difficult challenges along the way and if they didn't focus to their goals and keep fighting but were affected by the difficulties and challenges they have faced, they wouldn't have been the success they had become. I even feel that the more difficult the challenge that we face, the more rewards we would get in overcoming them. It is those challenges that strengthens one's character and makes us face any challenges that comes our way more easily. It's those who didn't face challenges in life which would be considered weak and lacking in character.

Good luck to your renewed fitness goals, frontvisions. Being fit is really a very desirable goal and is actually one of my main goals as well this coming New Year. Yes, I believe consistency is one of the secrets of having a fit and healthy body so I will also try to make fitness schedules which includes what types of exercises I plan to do for each day. I think new types of exercises comes out each year which becomes popular and then are replaced by newer types of exercises which becomes fad. I remember pilates were popular back then, but now I don't see a lot of people doing it anymore. I wonder which is the newest thing in fitness nowadays...

Hello ARIES! First of all, I want to wish you good luck to your new challenge in life. I honestly believe that in every challenge, there will always be a good solution to turn out victorious to any challenges we face. The attitude we have and the steps we make for overcoming those challenges are some of the important factors involved. I would also say that it's important to learn how to motivate ourselves so that we could be motivated to face our challenges on a daily basis. And instead of feelings of fear or boredom, we replace it with feelings of excitement and anticipation of being victorious to all our challenges. Of course, prayers help a lot as well.

I also believe that our attitude is the one factor that helps determine if we find life boring or exciting. So I believe it's good to start changing our attitude and look for what's good in our surroundings and in our own lives. The next step is probably to try to make our lives in a way that we could challenge ourselves to experience better things by improving ourselves in many areas of our lives.

You seem to have a lot of energy in you, Mavic and it's admirable. I sure hope no bored person follows your advice to get a rope, unless to use it to play skip rope or play cowboy. LOL Yes, I like your attitude that there are always a lot of interesting things to do and people should never get bored. Although I felt this may not be the case all the time as people have different circumstances, but nevertheless that type of attitude I believe could conquer many difficulties one face in life. I wish you keep on having that strong energy in you, bro

I would never recommend challenges that could be detrimental to one's health or one's life...lol. Anyway, I'm glad you weren't more seriously injured in that situation. I'm curious about the elevator music that you heard, how does an elevator music sound like? Anyway, I believe you're right in saying that the options we take could lead us to feel bored or excited. It's up to us to make the right choices.