How To Live The Good Life

Living the good life can mean something different for everyone. However, there is still a general understanding as what this idea entails to most human beings living in the modern world. The good life, in its most simple form, is a series of never ending satisfaction that only grows more powerful as time goes on.

The good life consists of wanting to get out of bed every morning, excited to take on whatever each day has in store for you. It has nothing to do with the material possessions or artificially induced sensations. The good life is based on the compassionate deeds you perform, the personal goals you strive to achieve, and the legacy you decide to leave behind as a result of the mark you made on the world around you.

Who could forget that episode of Entourage when the private jet was taking off and Kanye West debuted the chorus of the single "The Good Life?" What he was talking about was not the money the characters had attained but the celebration of everything they had been through, their recollection of their success as a team.

Far too many people get tangled up in the past and future, wondering what is going to happen to them and contemplating the "if's." They become numb to the little moments that are unknowingly the building blocks of time. Time, after all, is actually our single most advantage to living life to the fullest.