“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”

All of us want a life that is magical, magnificent and one of fulfilment. Yet many of us think that a magnificent life is something that happens to us – almost as if it is something that is done to us without our involvement. We think that a life of fulfilment is something reserved only for the lucky ones. In this short video, I talk about how a magical life is created through making a choice and a decision. We can all have a life full of more memorable moments regardless of our current circumstances. Enjoy

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Niro

When was the last time you did something for the first time, something you were passionate about just because it was fun and you enjoyed it? Imagine if you were a child and you were asked this question – what would the answer be? “Oh, about 2 minutes ago”  But what about us as adults? What happens to us? When was the last time we did something new, something we enjoyed, something that added passion to our lives?

It seems that as we grow older we seem to settle into a routine and a rut. We do the same things day inand day out and the worst part about it all is that we’re bored out of our brain and our lives have little or no passion or even enjoyment. Many of us don’t like the fact that we constantly eat terrible food on the run, we don’t like our jobs, we don’t like the commute, we don’t like the fact that we don’t spend enough time with our loved ones, we don’t like the fact that we’re out of shape… in fact the only thing we do seem to enjoy are Friday night drinks and hopefully a Sunday morning sleep in… that’s it!! If I was to ask you whether you consider your life to be full of fun, enjoyment and passion, the odds are 999 to 1 that you would answer me with a resounding No!

As unfulfilling as our lives are, as much as they lack passion, fun and enjoyment, do we ever consciously do anything about it? No! We just complain as one day blurs into the next and each week passes us by until another year has gone. New Years resolutions are forgotten as soon as the hangover is gone and nothing ever seems to change. We just complain about how we got too busy. Life just got in the way again and there never seems to be enough time or money to go and do the things we want to do. If this sounds like you or your life, then consider this your wake up call! There will never be any more time, in fact as each day goes past, we get one day closer to the end of our life. I know that might sound morbid, but isn’t it true? When will you make passion a priority and decide to inject more passion into your life? More fun? More enjoyment? After all, having more passion and fun in our lives starts with a decision.

The sad truth though is that so many of us don’t actually know what a life full of passion would look like. Our idea of having fun and enjoying life is limited to the past: School, university, hanging out with friends – but somehow, we grew up, got old and became completely boring. My question is: When will you decide to start having more fun? To start enjoying life more and to have more passion in life? When I say passion, I’m not just talking about passion in the bedroom (although that is important ). What I’m talking about is living a life of passion, living a life where you are excited to get up every morning rather than dreading the alarm clock, where instead of a coffee to get your heart started, your enthusiasm for the day ahead is all you need. Does this sound like something out of another dimension? Sadly, for many of us it is. Many of us will instead point out how many responsibilities we have to handle, how tough things are right now and how hard we need to work, just to make ends meet?

All of this might be true – and despite this, the fact is that unless you change things, nothing will change. So how do you inject more passion into your life?

Well, as I said the first thing is to decide that you must have more fun in your life. Make passion in your life a priority. Many of us will decide we want more money, we want better health, we want better careers. But we’ll never decide to have more passion and fun in our lives… and hence we don’t!

Secondly, one of my mentors told me to connect with my mortality. He said to imagine that I was nearing the end of my life, perhaps only a few years from now, and look back. (After all, none of us really know when our time is up do we?) Would I look back with regret at all the things I had not done, the adventures I had failed to experience, the magical moments that I ignored, the relationships I had let crumble…? Had I been too busy making a living that I’d forgotten to live my life? On my death bed how much satisfaction would I get from having worked all those extra hours in the office?

Or would I look back at my life in wonder and amazement, with gratitude and pride at a life full of passion and purpose? Would I look back at the candlelight dinners with my girl, the smiles on my children’s faces, the frequent walks along the beach, the times where I laughed uncontrollably, the adventures I had been on, the activities I had undertaken, the people’s who’s lives I had touched, the toys I had played with and the passions I had indulged? Would my life be one of triumph or tragedy? If you were to look back at your life, would you be happy with it? That’s a scary question to ask and so many of us avoid asking it, instead choosing to bury ourselves in the daily boredom that has become our lives. I truly believe that we will never be able to remember every single moment in our life, but we will remember the moments that took our breath away. As Tony Robbins says, we will only remember the magical moments in our life. The question is, are we actively creating magical moments in our life or we are just waiting for them to show up once in a while?

Remember, your current results are the results of your past actions. Your future results are the results of your current actions. What are you doing now that is going to give you a different result, a more passionate life?  If you are not happy with your life, you must do something different. As I said in my post about why we have a fear of failure, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity.

Finally, try something new, something that you’ve always wanted to do. It could be learning a new language, making time to start regularly running on the beach, go skydiving, take up a new sport, a new hobby… anything. What you actually choose to do almost does not matter – what matters is that you do something different, something fun, something that will add some spice and passion into your life. Imagine if you tried something new once every 3 months. After 1 year, you’ve got 4 new skills, experiences and / or hobbies under your belt. After 2 years, it’ s 8. After 5, it’s 20!

Of course, you might be thinking that you don’t have the time, that you’re just too busy. Well look, if you’re in a better frame of mind, if you’re having more fun in your life and enjoying yourself more, aren’t you more likely to perform better at work and in life? Of course you are. And if you have something to do that you truly enjoy in the evenings, wouldn’t you be willing to work that much harder so you can make the time to go and do what it is that you love? Think about it, isn’t your most productive day at work the day before you go away on holidays – when you know you absolutely must get the important stuff done. I bet you it is.

Here’s my promise to you – if you aim to do something new once every 3 months, something you enjoy and are passionate about, not only will you have more fun but your physical health will improve, your whole outlook on life will improve and over time you will take your life to another level! So if you’re willing to inject more passion into your life, make a promise to yourself to start living with passion from today. Ask yourself what you enjoy doing and start making time to do more of it. If it’s been so long that you don’t know anymore, that’s ok. Think back to when you were a kid – what did you enjoy doing? Was it building blocks? Drawing? Playing computer games? I don’t know but why not spend more of your time being a kid again – you’re bound to have more fun, more enjoyment and live with greater passion. And for many of you, your greater passion in life will translate into greater passion in the bedroom (Just in case you needed another incentive ) .

So quickly, let’s go through the steps to increase the passion in your life :

1. Make a decision to have more fun and enjoy life more. Make passion a priority.
2. Connect with your mortality – imagine you are at the end of your life and look back? Are you happy with your life? Did you live with passion? If not, what do you need to change now?
3. Aim to take up one new hobby, skill, experience at least once every 3 months and watch your life change.
4. Spend more time indulging your childhood passions. Be like a kid more. After all, aren’t we all just big kids anyway? And kids always have more fun than boring adults right??

As I said, having more passion in your life is about doing more of what you enjoy and trying out new things. When was the last time you did something for the first time? I’d like to leave you with something I did for the first time – skydiving!! An amazing rush!! I hope you enjoy it and please leave me a comment below

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To having more passion in your life,

Niro Thambipillay