What defines your ‘good life’? What do you need/want in order to enjoy the good life? Do you have all you need now? What’s missing? Is it only material things that are missing or are there some more esoteric ‘items’. Actually the place to start is with a definition. YOU have to be able to define and describe your good life or how do you know you’ve achieved it if you don’t?
While the good life is typically played out in our minds in some kind of utopian Camelotish place, reality is rarely that proscribed. However, we can still have the good life without it being utopian. Besides I have this belief, of sorts, that says: since each person’s utopia differs this means that it would be populated by only… you. How boring. That would not be utopian for long.
So what comprises your good life? Does it relate to fame or status? Money? New… everything? Or are the items in your list non material like a happy home, a challenging and rewarding job, a sense of accomplishment…. I would never equate or compare one list against another because it is a very personal consideration. My point is simply one of – do you know what your good life looks like?
What would you be doing in your good life place? Still working? Spending time on your hobbies? ‘Just enjoying’? This is the one aspect that most people don’t think about – what they would be doing. Simple example: it took me two times before I ‘retired’. The first time I didn’t plan for it but the second time I did. At least for me, simply sitting around is not my activity level – and I do need variety. So now, by taking the time to think about what I would do when I wasn’t working, I have a full ‘retired’ life.
Yes. You can have your good life at any point… as long as you know what it looks like and what you do in that place. Your ‘good life’ isn’t set in stone – it can evolve, change as you evolve and change. It can be one place at 20 and a different place at 50. Just remember to savor it when you are in it.
