How To Live Your Best Life

By: Maha Ali Rizvi

There’s so much advertising out there in the world claiming how easy everything is, which is a lie. Everything is simple. It’s very simple to do most things in the world, but easy, no. It’s not always easy and most of the time that’s because it takes a mindset shift. You have to look at things differently, and learning how to make a mindset shift is not something that we’re taught how to do in school. We’re not taught how to overcome limiting beliefs. We’re not even taught how to do taxes. Never mind how to do things like understand our subconscious thinking. We’re not taught any of this which I believe the world needs to know. Instead we’re taught to just wait for things and it will come to us if it needs to come to us, if it’s meant to be.

I do believe that some things are meant to be and that things do happen for us for a reason. But you’re also the creator of your life. You have to go out there and actually get things. Your best life is not just waiting for things to happen to you because if you continue waiting your chances of things happening that you want to happen are pretty slim because no one is looking out for you as much as you are.

It’s not going out and spending a bunch of money, taking Instagram pictures holding cocktails or frolicking on the beach on an expensive vacation. It’s not just living fabulously and then claiming that that’s your best life. It’s not just having fun all the time, especially if you ever feel guilty after spending a bunch of money.

It’s not splurging on great lattes or taking absolutely breathtaking vacations so that you can’t live normally for the rest of the year. If you’re in a scarcity mindset for most of the year so that you can have little splurges every day or massive splurges maybe once or twice a year then you’re certainly not living your best life everyday. If you’re counting dollars all the time and you think that things or people are going to leave you then you’re stuck in a scarcity mindset. If you’re really living your best life, you’re not worried about things leaving you because you’re so happy with who you are, where you are and who you’re being. Even if your bank account were to dip or if your partner left you, you’d still have faith that you’d be able to attract more money or another person who’s even better into your life.

People love to show off on social media and their best lives (yours included) is not what you see posted or what you post.

There’s nothing wrong with wanting to show how great your life is, I do it sometimes too. But if that’s all you’re doing and then putting your phone down and feeling shit about yourself or only feeling a high from posting about your so called best life, then you’re not really living it.

Living your best life is really learning how to step into your own control, your own power and really owning who you’re being. Even if you’re not the ideal person that you want to be yet, knowing that you are on your way and working towards being that best person is how to live your best life.

It’s also important to remember that the best way to live your life is not how others tell you, including me. If living your best life is living fabulously, go and do that. Only you know what living your best life means for you.

I’d say it’s an absolute necessity to invest in yourself. You don’t have to go out and spend thousands of dollars, even small investments, any type of energy exchange, no matter how big or small will still still help benefit you. Living your best life is finding a core group of people, which can change over time, that uplift you and help you grow. These kinds of people are called expanders. They’re people who have been through what you’re currently going through and will have some insight to help you. Learning how to get real and being tough on yourself when you need to be is important. But it’s also important to know when you need to be easy on yourself. If you’re tough on yourself and have high expectations for yourself then learning to tell yourself to take a break could be getting honest with yourself.

But if you’re someone who can easily take a day off or can easily take a step back, then maybe learning to be tough on yourself will be the hard part. Either way, getting honest with yourself is living your best life because it will help you get self aware and be able to do things for yourself that need to be done in order to grow.

Most importantly, living your best life is learning that working on yourself from the inside first is the best thing that you can do for yourself and to drop all needs of external sources or validation.

Life is special and all of us are constantly striving for that true state of bliss, true joy and happiness because that’s what we’re put on this planet to experience. We’re not supposed to be here just to be in misery. We’re supposed to experience all emotions and working on getting to those high emotions, vibrations and frequency is literally everyone’s life work. Simply put, working on yourself from the inside, living for you and experiencing absolute joy and bliss every single day is living your best life. Get out there and start living your best life, you deserve it. Setting goals and living a balanced life is much easier when I take the time to plan things out and write them down. My body is my vehicle for this journey. When I give it the fuel and maintenance that it needs, it will perform at its best and take me everywhere I want to go. Making the right food and lifestyle choices and creating healthy habits is part of living my dream life. From my 5 times prayer a day to me planning out my whole week or my appointments in a month, getting organized has a magical impact on our ability to achieve our goals.

Most of the components necessary for building the life I want function together as a sort of self-mastery-positive-feedback-loop. Respecting my body and mind and taking good care of myself leads to better health and more energy, which increases productivity and motivation, which in turn increases my sense of self-worth and confidence. Confidence is the foundation of strength and courage, which are

necessary for ultimately achieving what I want in my life.

By working on one aspect of what it takes to live my best life, the other parts will naturally follow.