29 LAWS OF LIVING LIFE TO THE FULLEST.

How do you feel about your life today? Are you living every day in exuberance? Do you love what you’re doing? Are you excited every single moment? Are you looking forward to what’s coming up next? Are you living your best life?

If your answer to any of the above is a no, maybe or not sure, that means you’re not living your life to the fullest. Which really shouldn’t be the case, because your life experience is up to you to create. Why settle for anything less than what you can get? You deserve nothing but the best. Here are 29 laws to live your life to the fullest.

LAW 1 - START AFRESH
Don't be held down or back by what happened yesterday, being hurts, pains, disappointments, mistakes or failures. Every day is a new day, so start something new and great today or continue the great enterprise you've started. Every blessed day is open to a new opportunity.

LAW 2 - BE TRUE TO YOURSELF
Stop trying to please other people or be someone else. Be an original version of yourself than a carbon copy of someone else. Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drown your own inner voice. Know who you are and what you represent. Be clear of your personal identity.

LAW 3 - STOP COMPLAINING
Stop complaining about your failures, challenges, tough times, problems but instead work on them. You can't add a pinch to your life through complaining. Stop !

LAW 4 - DISCOVER YOUR LIFE PURPOSE
Your life purpose may be defined as your personal mission, or your spiritual path, or the cause for which you live, or how you plan to make a difference, or what you want to leave behind after you're gone or anything that's truly important to you. Jim Cathcart, the author and speaker says, "Nurture your nature." The very best way to move on in life is to move in the direction of your natural talents and interests. Jeanette Walls wrote in Half Broke Horses, "Dad was a philosopher and had that he called his theory of purpose, which held that everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up a space on the planet and wasting everybody time. God does not create a masterpiece like you without a definite purpose in mind. Discover your purpose today.

LAW 5 - SET PRINCIPLES
Set life commandment or principle you want to live your life by. Set principles you want to follow in life. A principled man will always meet up with target in life.

LAW 6 - SET GOALS
A goal is an objective set to achieve in a particular period at a certain level of activities. This objective is what drives you when others are walking. In setting personal goals, you must consider what you want to achieve in your lifetime or at least by a significant and distant age in the future. This objective to be set must be specific or significant, measurable or meaningful, attainable or action oriented, relevant or rewarding and time bound or trackable. Your set goals can be embedded in vision and mission statement for clarification purpose. What do you want to achieve in two years to this time? You goals can help you stay on the track. With goals, you will definitely plan all the way to end.

LAW 7 - LEARN FROM CRITICISM
Be open to criticism but don't be affected by it. Criticism is meant to help you be a better person. Learn from it.

LAW 8 - BE POSITIVE
If you can see the positive sides of everything, you'll be able to live a much richer life than others. Positivity breeds positivity. Zig Ziglar of blessed memory said, "Positive thinking will let you use the abilities, training and experience you have.

LAW 9 - TOUCH LIVES
Let your riches be counted on the numbers of those that you put smile on their faces. Show compassion and kindness to everyone around you. As said by Pike, "What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and are immortal.

LAW 10 - BELIEVE IN YOURSELF
Always believe in yourself and your abilities. If you look down on yourself, no one will look up to you. Just believe you can no matter what happen.

LAW 11 - LET GO OF UNHAPPY PAST
Forget the pointless drama and those who created them. Live in your today for tomorrow to be rewarding. Never hold grudges against yourself and others as regards the past. Be futuristic.

LAW 12 - KEEP DEVELOPING YOURSELF
Equip yourself with a huge breath of knowledge. Learn different skills, pick up different hobbies, study different fields. There is something to learn from everything you see, hear and experience. This includes your mistakes and past mishaps (if any). Be updated.

LAW 13 - GET MENTORS AND OR COACHES
A mentor is a person whose hindsight can become your foresight. Look for someone who can accept you as mentee or a student. It is very important to associate yourself with people who can keep you going no matter what. Get a motivator. A mentor guides you in pursuing your life cause.

LAW 14 - GET A ROLE MODEL
With role model, you become most better than you can be by yourself. Role model reminds me of what I can be, what I can do, so they drive me on to greater heights.

LAW 15 - FOCUS ON CREATION
Think of what you can bring to the world or create for people usage. Think of services, values you can create. Don't be all time consumer, work toward becoming producer.

LAW 16 - EXPRESS GRATITUDE
Let people who have touched you know of your gratitude toward them. You will be surprised what a little act like this can do. I do appreciate my BBM contacts, some do put " @ grateful heart or thankful heart" as their personal message whenever I send them something interesting. Be thankful to God and people.

LAW 17 - EMBRACE CHANGE
The only thing that is constant in life is change. Change means growth. Rather than resist. Change, learn to versatile such that you make the best out of the changes that comes. In fact, become an agent of change. Don't get stuck in comfort zone.

LAW 18 - LAUGH MORE
Are you reading this with a straight face? C'mon laugh. Give smile to everyone you come across.

LAW 19 - BE MORE RISK-INCLINED
Don't be afraid to take risks. The bigger your risk, the bigger the returns. Be a risk taker and not averter.

LAW 20 - DON'T CRITICIZE
Don't criticise, blame or judge others. Do not see yourself better than others. Respect each man thumbscrew.

LAW 21 - BE DISCIPLINED
According to experts, without discipline it is difficult to achieve success in whatever tasks or live life to the fullest. They stress that for you to successfully execute any plan or goal, certain level of disciplined must be maintained. By disciplining yourself, you will overcome bad habits such as procrastination, fear, negative thinking and the tendency to blame others for failure or problem.

LAW 22 - BE DETERMINED
The greatest way to enjoy a richer life is to persevere and be determined. No matter the difficulties, obstacles and situations you are in, continue to try and never give up. In Peak Milk advert, Kanu Nwankwo (Nigeria professional footballer and Icon) said "It was a big shock to me when the Doctor said I cannot play again but I was determined never to give up." He won so many accolades after this determination. Never give up. Never quit. Be determined. Persistence is the key.

LAW 23 - CHALLENGE FEARS
All of us have fears. Fear of uncertainty, fear of public speaking, fear of failing, fear of making mistakes, and fear of fears. All our fears keep us in the same position and prevent us from growing. Rather than avoid fears, recognise they are the compass for growth. F.E.A.R has two meanings, Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise.. The choice is yours.

LAW 24 - MAKE FRIENDS
Associate yourself with people of like minds. Be friendly with people. Be nice.

LAW 25 - PROCRASTINATE NOT
The story "When I become a big boy" in the best of .....Bit pieces "Creed for optimists" by Christian D. Larson best explained this. Procrastination, "This is like the little boy who says when I become a big boy, I will do this and this and I will be happy. And when he becomes a big boy he says, when I finish college and do this and this I will be happy. And when he finishes college he says, when I get married and do this and this and then I will be happy. And when he gets married, he says when the kids get out of school, and I do this and this I will be happy. And when the kids get out of school, he says when retires and do this and this, I will be happy. And when he retires what does he see? He sees life has just gone by in front of his eyes. The moral of this story is never to leave till tomorrow which you can do today.

LAW 26 - MAXIMIZE YOUR MIND, BODY, HEART AND SOUL.
Living your best life requires you to maximise yourself mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. If you're highly successful, very materially abundant, have a big circle of friends, very spiritually aware but you neglect your physical health, that's not living your life to the fullest.

LAW 27 - LEARN FROM FAILURE
Failure is the highway to success. If you study history, you will find out that all stories of success are also stories of great failures. Setbacks or failures are inevitable in life. Once you fail, never quit. Stand up and try again. A failure can act as a driving force and also teach us humility. We need to learn to become victors, not victims. Ask yourself after every setback: what did I learn from this experience? Only then you will be able to turn a stumbling block into a stepping stone. It takes both rain and sunshine to create a rainbow. There is the good and the bad; dark and bright spots. If we can handle failure through persistence, it will strengthen us. You will never be called a failure until you refuse to rise each time you fail. Learn from it now and rise!

LAW 28 - START YOUR FAMILY
Get married and procreate. Try to marry the woman or man of your choice that you both love each other deeply. Don't do this as a desperate man or woman. Be patient and wait for your time.

LAW 29 - LOVE
Love yourself, love others and love the life you've got. This is the final and greatest law.


For now you've got only one life. Don't hesitate to live your life to the fullest. Follow the laws and your heart and intuition. Strive to be the best in all you can. Enjoy and live your life peacefully.