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Five Links to Living Fully Alive – the 5 R’s.

Think of someone who appears to live their life Fully Alive. A person who is engaged with life every day, who seems to wring the most joy out of his or her moments, who seems to live life totally on purpose.

That’s tough, huh? When we look around, we’re much more likely to see friends, family, coworkers who are going through the motions, mindlessly putting one foot ahead of the next on the treadmill of daily existence. There is little plan to their lives as they react to their circumstances instead of create them.

That’s okay. Even if you have to create an amalgam of people – the good qualities and habits of your best friend, your spouse, and a coworker – what is important is to visualize how vibrant that avatar of a person with all those vibrant characteristics would be. Looking at her from the outside, she would appear to live her life almost on another plane. She would seem so blessed in her life, surrounded by people and activities that she loves, living each moment with a sense of gratitude and adventure, that it would appear that she just accidentally stepped into such a grand existence. That she was one of the chosen few.

A closer look, however, reveals that she is very deliberate in creating her life. Whether she knows it or not, she has integrated what I call the 5 R’s into her routine as the foundation for her happy life.

I’ve seen it over and over. In fact, I’ve never seen a Fully Alive person, or person on their way to living Fully Alive, skip any of the 5 R’s. They are all essential parts of the bedrock that creates a life well lived. And best of all, the 5 R’s are completely accessible and learnable for all.

So what are the 5 R’s? They are:

Each of the 5 R’s is as important as the next and all of the 5 R’s must be in balance with each other. Too heavy of a focus on one or an underdevelopment of another creates a flat-tire effect – a wheel that won’t roll.

But when the 5 R’s are consciously manifested in your life, each one given the time and space it deserves… ahhhh… that’s when you’ve laid the groundwork for magic to happen!

2012 is the year to be Fully Alive

What would your life look like if you lived every day Fully Alive?

Tough question, especially when most of us don’t know what it feels like to be Fully Alive. In fact, we’re not even sure what that means.

So let’s start there. Let’s define what it means to be Fully Alive.

To me, being Fully Alive means living the life of my choice, where I am in complete control, where I live with passion and purpose. I wake up each morning with a sense of adventure and anticipation for what the day will bring, and I go to bed each night with a overwhelming feeling of gratitude for all that I am. Being fully alive means living in the present, each moment, and recognizing the beauty and goodness that is everywhere. It is a state of being where my spirit feels so big, it escapes the confines of my body and connects with other people, with the divine, with animals, and with the natural world.

Being Fully Alive is available to each of us in the midst of any lifestyle or life circumstance. It is the end result of living consciously… deliberately. It requires equal doses of discipline and enthusiasm. And only when you understand how hard it is does it become easy.

Living my life Fully Alive is an idea I’ve flirted with for some time now. As a health and fitness professional, I’ve helped many others move further along the Fully Alive continuum. And as a life-long student of wellness philosophies and spiritual ideals, I’ve pushed myself forward too.

But sometimes I get tired… and sloppy… and find my life sinking back into mediocrity. Rather than experiencing the vibrancy of life, I settle for a monotone existence of obligations and short-term fixes to numb the feelings of discontent that begin to bubble up. I let the daily grind and busy-ness of my business and active family overshadow my true reason for existence.

I know better. I have tools and strategies that work. But know better and doing better are two separate things. Doing better comes with a commitment to the ideal of being Fully Alive, rather than just flirting with it. This is the year I will consummate that commitment.

Join me and I’ll share with you what works and what doesn’t so that you too can create an existence that is Fully Alive. I’ll give you a blueprint for being Fully Alive and all the best wellness tools and information to go with it. And I’ll share, with complete honesty, my own journey so that you can benefit from my successes and my mistakes.

So let’s get ready and go… we can get set along the way.

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