Please Enjoy Your Life!

Would you please tell us whether you enjoy your life? And how do you make your life wonderful and meaningful?

Often we just say that we have to suffer now — give up what we want — in order to succeed later, therefore in order to save we must sacrifice. Give up instant gratification to get delayed gratification. But in fact, you can do both. For years, I was confused about this, as I read books and websites that sent me two different messages:

Pleasure later. The first message was that in order to be successful, in order to build wealth, you have to delay gratification. You can't have instant gratification and be successful. Pleasure now. The second message was usually from other sources on happiness, but sometimes from the same source: enjoy life now, while you can, because it's short and you never know when your last day will come. Therefore, please live every day like it's your last. In my opinion, you can enjoy your life now; your life can be frugally and simply.

Live life now and enjoy it to the fullest — without destroying your future. The key to do that is finding ways to enjoy life completely, utterly, maximally. That doesn’t cost your future very much. Here are some tips for actually living without much cost:

Find free or cheap pleasures. Frugality does not have to be boring or restrictive … if you use your imagination. Be creative and then you can find ways to have fun — loads of it — without spending much money. Have a picnic at the park; go to the beach, board games, fly a kite, and make art, and so on… I could list a hundred things, and you could come up with a few hundred more. Make a list of simple pleasures, and enjoy them to the maximum. This is the key to the whole idea of enjoying life now without spending much money. Make simplifying fun. I'm a big fan of simplifying my life, from decorating to creating a simple lifestyle in every way. And to me, this is great fun. I get rid of stuff (and possibly make money selling it) and have a blast doing it. That’s good math.

Find time for yourself. Make time every day, and every week, to spend time alone. It really gives more enjoyment and excitement to your life, rather than running through life with no time to think, or to breathe. For ideas on how to make this time, see these ways to create time for living alone.

Last but not the least, reward yourself. And in order to make it more fun, please celebrate every little success! Set gifts(http://www.dinodirect.com/se-gift/ ) for yourself (the reward can be practical rather than expensive) for your success— celebrate one day, two days, three days, a week, two weeks, a month … you get the idea. One of the most rewarding things for my family has been when we have managed to volunteer. It's actually something we only started doing few months ago, but since then, we've done it frequently in a number of different ways. And while it doesn't cost much money, it is tremendously meaningful in ways that money could never purchase.

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Learn to find cheap, cool stuff, and I sincerely love shopping at thrift stores. You can find so many cool things there, and it costs so little.

Do you like this article? Sincerely hope you can enjoy your life without tight your budget!