Enjoying Life to the Fullest – Questions to Ask Yourself

Although some people feel unlucky and even reluctant to enjoy all that life has to offer, to enjoy life is one of the great reasons we are here. It is a wonderful thing to live with such diversity and different views. Free will is magnificent and should be greatly appreciated. However, some people have come to frown upon views which are not there own. It is difficult to live a happy life when letting so many little annoyances into it. Maybe it’s time to drop the judgement and realize that there is no reason to fall victim to the idea of differences.

Here are 8 very important questions to ask yourself in the quest to live as happily as possible. The Huffington Post reports the following:

1. Are you open to learning new things? The more you open your mind’s box and let information pour in, the bigger it gets. When you start judging something or someone negatively, it is your mind’s signal that you need more information about it.

2. Do you listen carefully to others? When you ask a question or carry a conversation, are you really listening or are you looking for words to respond and get engulfed into your own thought and mind set? Do you get defensive and shut yourself up to what is being said? Do you do a self serving bias and only let in what fits your set of thought and filter the rest out?

3. Do you ask real questions to get to the depth of something you don’t understand? What type of information are you looking for and where do you try to find them? Do you value your mind enough to make sure only the good stuff gets in, or do you let toxins in with words and manipulated information from sources that have no base or integrity?

4. Have you learned to deal with your irrational and conditioned fears? The irrational fears many of us carry is like carrying a useless and heavy baggage which drains us, misguides us, blocks us from experiencing life fully and bends us when we need to stand upright.

5. Do you find ways to connect with people who may seem different than you on the surface? For example, how often do you choose to socialize with people from different cultures or religious background? Do you ask an attractive co-worker out if she has a different faith? Would you befriend someone whose political views is not the same as yours, but seems like a genuinely good person to you?

6. Do you try to stay in the moment when interacting with people? Tying in with listening, staying in the moment means really making an effort, right in that moment, to connect with someone else. Don’t think about the things you have to do later. Don’t worry about what you didn’t get done that day. Be present. It’s very difficult to be open when you are thinking about something else. Your mind is closed to a new connection when you are thinking about the past or the future. Be there, in the moment, and you will be much more successful in establishing an open, interesting connection with others.

7. Do you stop yourself when you’re judging someone? It takes certain will power and courage for someone to learn to train his mind to stop when he is judging unfairly based on his own projections, being unaware of the facts or simply being stressed out. Many times we judge people to put them at an inferior level so that we can cover our own insecurities. This one needs a strong minded individual to really dig in and get to the root. But a quick fix is to just stop the judgmental thought and behavior and turn the switch off. Practice makes perfect with this one.

8. Can you train yourself to have a scientist mind? In science, if something is categorized as a fact, it is real; whereas a theory is speculative and it remains debatable. So a good scientist carefully distinguishes the two. Most of us, in real life, function based on our own theories of how things “should” be. Our expectations, opinions and interpretations frequently distort how we view each other — and how we communicate. The more we train our scientific mind, the more objective we can view life.

Life is meant to be enjoyed to it’s fullest. Being accepting, open, and tolerant of others is key in order to live a happy life.

In the end, we are all connected.