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Making The Best Out Of Life and How To Make Your Life Meaningful?

How to live a meaningful life?

What makes life meaningful?

Are there any standards? Is there a checklist that tells you you live a meaningful life?

The question of meaningful living and how to make your life meaningful has been bothering me for a while. 

Probably, once you enter your 30s, you start seriously thinking about the direction your life has. 

In a week time (the time I write this post, July 2020) I turn 33, and just as every other self-respected Cancer I start dramatizing what I’ve done with my life so far (maybe other astrological signs do it too, but I know Cancers are very good at that).

Am I living a meaningful life, and what gives life value?

I dug a little bit here and there, and I read the same answers – find purpose, give to others, get a hobby… 

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with these tips. In fact, they are must-do things

But they didn’t give me the satisfaction I was looking for. I didn’t get the Aha!-moment.

So I had to think about it and decide…

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What Would Make Me Feel Like My Life Has a Meaning?

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If I was in my 80s and my life was steadily going towards its end, what would I want to leave behind?

What would make me say “Yeah, dying isn’t fun, but my life had a meaning to me, and that’s what makes it less painful.”

Here are a few rules I came up with:

  • Making life meaningful shouldn’t cost anything. It’s not just a cliche to repeat that the best things in life are for free (air, a kiss, a hug, a tear of joy)
  • What is life all about? It’s about having some moments of joy, peace, happiness, and adding quality to other people’s life. So everything that adds meaning to life must be simple, accessible, and a matter of choice. 

With that said, I came up with 50 simple ways to give life meaning, and I can’t wait to share them with you. Maybe none of them will surprise you, and I believe that’s the reason they are so important. 

I hope they mean something to you too. 

50 Ways to Make Your Life Meaningful

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1. Have someone to love.

2. Allow them to love you back.

3. Find gratitude in your heart. 

I am amazed by the way gratitude has transformed my life. I use gratitude journaling as a way to appreciate the life I have, but also to manifest the life I want to have. If you struggle to start, I’ve got 10 gratitude journals to help you, and another 100 gratitude journaling prompts here.

4. Speak up your mind, but do it kindly.

5. Hold close to you the people that matter the most.

We often ignore the people who matter the most to us but living a meaningful life also asks for taking a step back and nurturing the relationships we have. 

6. Learn something new every day.

7. Do things you love more often.

8. Change someone’s life.

9. Make people’s days better.

Just because I had a bad day, it doesn’t mean I should ignore others. I want people to feel good after they’ve met me.

10. Work on making your dreams come true. 

Develop good daily habits and make sure they lead you to where you want to go.

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11. Whatever you do, make sure it makes you happy.

12. Grow. Always look for ways to grow and improve yourself.

13. Enjoy quality food that makes you feel good about yourself. 

14. Hug more often. 

15. Look for reasons to smile.

Ideas To Help You Live a Meaningful Life

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16. It’s all about perspective.

Things are as they are – we are the ones who attach feelings to reality. The moment we change our perspective on life is the moment when life changes as well.

17. Think thoughts that inspire you.

Even if we believe that positive thinking is good but unrealistic, we must admit that things look prettier and life feels better if we think positively. 

18. Explore your own ideas.

Every dream or idea is a possibility – a new universe that cracks its door in front of us. We must explore it and see if it will take us on a beautiful journey. And it usually does.

19. Trust in yourself.

Trust and believe in yourself. Your self-belief is the single most crucial responsibility you have. 

20. Be your best friend.

21. Be someone’s best friend.

22. Be someone’s hope.

23. Help if you can.

Stay away if you can’t help.

24. Appreciate people and things before you lose them. 

25. Look after your body. 

How To Make Life More Meaningful?

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26. Find what makes you special and unique and embrace it. 

We aren’t at school anymore. Being different isn’t a bad thing. In fact, being different means, you can offer something more to the world. The beauty is that we are all different, and we all have something different to contribute to this world. So let’s embrace it and love it.

27. Allow yourself to be happy.

The only person who stays in front of the door to happiness is yourself. 

28. Always search for the good in the bad and not the opposite. (I must work on that a lot)

29. Evaluate. Contemplate. Reflect

Only by occasionally stopping and looking back, we could evaluate how far we’ve come. Reflecting on life and its meaning is what helps us move ahead. 

30. Aim for inner peace, whatever the situation.

Inner peace is that magic state of being in a state of accepting whatever life gives us and reflecting on what we’ve already got in our hands.

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31. Make people feel good about themselves.

32. Take risks. 

Every risk you take gives you a 50% chance to win. Every risk you don’t take gives you a 100% chance to lose. 

33. Enjoy quiet moments. 

Book. Candle. Peace. Quiet moments are what make life stops for a second. Let everyone else keep spinning. You stop and enjoy this moment.

34. Watch more sunsets and sunrises.

35. Forgive. Others. Yourself. 

36. Believe in a higher power.

We aren’t as big and as important as we think. Believing in a higher power reminds us of that, and keeps our feet on the ground.

37. Trust more.

It helps you create relationships that matter.

38. See the beauty in everything around you.

There’s plenty of it. 

39. Be a role model.

To your kids. To your friends. To yourself.

Ideas On Meaningful Living

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40. Work what you love and love what you work. 

There aren’t too many other things that could ruin our lives as much as working something that sucks our energy out. If you are in this position, find a way to change it.

41. Do things with passion.

Or don’t do them at all… umm…except paying taxes. 

42. Live in the present, but plan for the future.

43. Do only acts of love.

According to Gabby Bernstein – motivational speaker and life-coach; every action and every decision we take come from either a place of love or a place of fear. Our ego creates our fears, and our main task is to fight the ego and overcome our fears. 

If we ever wonder if a decision we’ve made is good or bad, all we have to find out is if it came from a place of love or a place of fear.

44. Be the person who doesn’t get angry quickly. 

45. Give – love, advice, hug, kindness, help…

Last 5 Tips On What Makes Life Meaningful

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46. Love who you are.

47. Be focused on things that matter.

48. Do what the world needs.

That’s not mine. It’s the Japanese formula for life satisfaction.

Right now the world needs love, kindness, positive vibes. Can you provide them? How? If you made one person smile, and he made another person smile, and that other person made someone else smile… you started an impressive chain of positivity.

49. Connect with yourself.

On every level.

50. Live every day in a way that makes you proud of yourself.

Recently I was asked by a fellow blogger if writing quality content is more important (but time-consuming) or the average one is fine too as it’s easy to crack out fast.

I advised him that if he puts his name underneath a piece of text, he needs to be proud of every word in it. 

It’s the same with life. If we live a life and we call it “ours” then we must be proud of every day of it.

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Final Thoughts On How To Make Your Life Meaningful

So, how will you make your life meaningful?

The simple truth is that we all have meaningful lives, and every life changes the face of this world forever. We never know how many other people’s lives we’ve touched and how we’ve changed them. Yet, I assure you it happened.

Enjoy what you have, embrace who you are, and follow your heart’s calling – so trivial and yet so profound. Be grateful for the opportunity to change yourself and affect this world in a good way. Use that opportunity, and use it wisely.

Will you do it?

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