The little choices that this “happy life blueprint” leaves you with are not enough to fill up the emptiness inside you. It’s like when you don’t like beef, but agree to join your family dinner at a steak restaurant. You will have a very limited choice of food and that small salad or pasta with pesto will fill your stomach, but not your desire for pleasure and abundance. You get dissatisfied and even a bit resentful of your family. 

“They should have chosen another restaurant, because they must know that I don’t eat steak!”
“Everyone enjoys themselves and I’m looked at pitifully with my sides as a main dish.”

True, your family could have been more considerate. However, it’s YOUR job to take care of your happiness, wellbeing, and fulfillment in life.

If you start saying No to “that’s how we always did things” and start following your own desires and wishes, you will ruffle some feathers, you will make people angry or disappointed in you. 

So what? You don’t live to make your family happy, to make your friends happy, to make your partner happy, or even to make your children happy!

Your life is YOURS. 

Take it. Claim it. Live it. How about you start now? 

Start with small things to ease into it, or quit your job and travel for 3 months. Up to you. Whatever lights YOU up.

Have fun and be prepared to discover unknown amounts of pleasure and fulfillment.

With love,

Maria