High Level Life Satisfaction

Getting what you think you want rarely brings lasting meaning in your life.

We pursue goals…and we should…but accomplishing those things in our goal book to increase income, bring honors and awards hardly ever give us the high level of life satisfaction we crave once the initial happiness of it fades away.  

Even checking off items on our bucket list, like taking a luxury cruise, skiing the Austrian Alps, or writing a book can fail to bring the increased life satisfaction we desire.

So what does? In my experience three things, the last one is first:


* family and loyal friends, family because you share history, a blood bond and DNA and because in the end you’re still family. Friends, because they stick up for you, meet you for lunch when you need to talk and can tell your stories as well as you can.

* the people who have traveled the same survival path as you, sharing similar hardships together. They encourage you, shove you when you need it, and empathize with you, because they know firsthand what you’re going through. With both friends and survivors, it is about people doing life shoulder-to-shoulder as each of them bear witness to the other of the ordeal, the endurance and the celebration.

* connecting with the God of Creation, who is neither a Santa Claus prototype nor a cruel judge. He takes real delight in us, made us in His own image, wrapped us in His love and blesses us beyond measure. He can wipe away the cosmos or wipe away our tears. And following Him by faith, teaches us the details of how to live, how to love ourselves and others and sift through to what’s important.


Daisy’s Corner:
About a bucket list, I don’t have one. What is it…a list of stuff you want to do before you kick the bucket? I think that’s dumber than dirt! So what if you get a sense of satisfaction because you complete it. See, it’s the completion that has me a bit concerned. Yes, yes, yes I say if you don’t have a bucket, you don’t have to kick it!