5 steps to Living More of Your Life

1. Think “easy.” Ask yourself several times a day, no matter what you’re doing, no matter how overwhelmed you feel, “How easy, how simple, how absolutely delightful, could I make this task?”

2. Stop measuring yourself based on how much you get done in any given day, and start celebrating yourself based on how much you discover. Let go of being the world’s greatest efficiency expert and embrace the role of lover and adventurer.

3. Look up from your to-do list at least three times a day and take in your surroundings. Look for delight in the most unexpected places.

4. Listen to the people you love best as if you’ve never met them before. Don’t assume that you know how they feel or what they’re thinking. Listen for who they are now, what they’re passionate about now, what delights them now.

5. Look for the magical moments, those unextraordinary, brief moments when they’re playing “The Way You Look Tonight” or someone has made you cry with laughter. Embrace that person and say out loud, “Right now, isn’t this great? Here we are together. And we love each other. Aren’t we lucky?”

6. Sit down for just five minutes. (Just kidding.)