12 Essential Things to Do In Life

Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope. ~ Tom Head

To find meaning in life is to think right, do right and expect the right results. Check out the things you need to do in life:

1. Be purposeful: There is a direction in life when you live with a purpose. You know what you want and you go all the way to get it. You will look forward to each new day enthusiastically.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose. ~ Robert Byrne

Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined. ~ Henry David Thoreau

2. Be happy: This is your ultimate aim in life, but you don’t have to seek it directly. It is the by-product of what you think and what you do. Happiness is what you get when what you think and what you do get you positive results.

What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness. ~ Baruch Spinoza

3. Be positive: Though life is not a bed of roses, the most crucial thing is that you react to things positively. Positive thinking, which is the right mental attitude, creates positive action and brings you positive results.

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. ~ Henry James

4. Be organized: To avoid living in chaos and be stressed, you have to plan ahead and organize your life in advance every day. Live an orderly life and get things done smoothly.

Without discipline, there's no life at all. ~ Katharine Hepburn

5. Be productive: When your life is organized, you will be more efficient and effective in what you do. Productivity is the key to your success in life.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers, by living productively. ~ Erich Fromm

6. Be physically active: To be fit and healthy is to live life energetically. To be energetic, you need to be physically active. Health and physical fitness is the way to live and enjoy your life fully.

7. Be curious: It is about the thirst for knowledge. Discover and get the right information to be knowledgeable and stay ahead. It is also about continuous learning to stay alert to changes and to gain wisdom.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. ~ Mortimer Adler

8. Be hopeful: When you know what you are looking for in life, you will be hopeful because you are working daily to get what you want. Hope is a powerful force that keeps you going on in life despite failures and setbacks.

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired. ~ Erik H. Erikson

9. Be connected: To connect is to interact. To interact is to exchange ideas and be smarter.

10. Be grateful: Appreciate your existence, thankful for what you have got, be contented. Avoid thinking of the things you don’t have, but treasure the things that you are enjoying now.

11. Be flexible: Technology is advancing at a very fast pace. Things are changing rapidly and life is getting complicated. We have to do things differently in order to cope with changes.

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living. ~ Gail Sheehy

12. Be focused: To focus is to harness your energy and do what matters the most to you. Know what you want out of life and work for it with full concentration.

Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh