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Are you Survival Mode or Living??

If you were to die tomorrow, would you be happy with the life you lived? Would you be happy with the mark you left on the world? Would you be happy with what you did with your whole life and every day you lived? With the relationships you had? The last words you said to the people you love? Would you be happy with yourself? Surviving' would simply mean doing things that are mandatory for a person to be alive. But in order to live, we have to be content from within and go beyond our abilities. To take chances and try and experiment new things is actually called “living”. Whether we are living or surviving is a reflection of the quality of the relationship that we have with our emotions and the openness and availability of our mind to engage fully in that relationship.

How to Determine Whether You’re in Survival Mode

Here are the signs of survival mode:

  • Everything is urgent. The deadline is now. Your back is up against the wall.
  • Meetings, calls, and other appointments are constantly canceled and rescheduled.
  • Your team can’t help. You can’t allow them a reasonable amount of time to get work done, but even if you could, they wouldn’t be able to get it done anyway because they’re in crisis mode too.
  • The stress is overwhelming. Your sleep is disrupted, your breathing feels odd, your heart beats erratically, and you can’t think straight. You will yourself to calm down, but it doesn’t work.
  • There’s no joy. Your goal is to avoid having a terrible day. Having a great day isn’t an option.
  • Everything is a reaction. You’re never proactive. You react to clients, opposing counsel, and the court. You’re never one step ahead. You bounce from response to response.
  • It’s all risky. You can’t get the document filed a day early. You’ve got to collect this fee or miss payroll. You have to to win this case. Everything matters way too much. There’s no margin for error.
  • You can’t take the time for excellence. All work is “good enough.” There’s little going out the door of which you can be proud. This isn’t what you wanted for your career or your reputation.



Survival is about maintenance. 

A person who is merely existing doesn’t enjoy life; he has no passion, enthusiasm or interest in what he does. He’ll simply go through the motion of life, without having any aim or purpose. It’s about checking your mental health on a daily basis to see what you are capable of achieving. It is also about allowing yourself to accept that getting out of bed and filling the day is reasonable. Small accomplishments like getting dressed and out the door is a huge step, and you are okay with that. Your goals may be more menial than those who “live”, but since you are in survival mode, you are comfortable with that. Survival mode typically lacks “change”. Routine is your comfort zone, and transitions make you anxious. You are content with being a creature of habit and no allowing anyone or anything to make you feel. You live in a world where “feeling” is dangerous, so you block out the world

Survive mode is characterized by:

  • Choosing the path with the least resistance
  • Experiencing lack rather than abundance
  • Reacting rather than responding
  • Complaining and blaming others for your circumstances
  • Feeling inauthentic and stuck
  • Fearing failure and viewing it as a sign that things are going wrong instead of seeing it as a necessary part of success

Living is about challenges. 

Life is full of things that challenge us, every day. Maybe it’s a new position you are applying for, or a marriage proposal, or getting a new pet. These are all a part of living your life, rather than surviving through it. Change is embraced, rather than feared. You can comfortably reach beyond your comfort zone, without fear or anxiety. Living is trying, experiencing, tasting, hearing, seeing, and adapting. Living your best life happens when everything makes you feel and you can handle the good, the bad and the wonderful without apology to yourself or others. When you live an enriched life, you surround yourself with others who enjoy being a part of it. You allow the world to enter your life, and your life to enter the world.

Once you reprogram your brain

Are you living the life you’ve always wanted? Or have you settled into the status quo? If you’ve hit a plateau, feel stuck in life or know that you haven’t reached your full potential, it’s not too late. You can reprogram your mind to give you the focus and determination it takes to design a life that gives you fulfillment, joy and passion. It’s time to clean up the debris left behind—all the survival mode wreckage: bad relationships, unhealthy habits, a life devoid of intention and purpose. In other words, shifting from surviving to thriving is a process of rewiring and remodeling the inner and outer landscape of your life. Unfortunately, merely wishing it would happen (or worse, complaining) won’t get you there. It takes deliberate, consistent action. Consider your mantras, identify what isn’t serving you, and clear the path. So simple, and yet so freaking hard. Fortunately, perfection is not required to reap the rewards. Your subconscious mind is the key to success  and you can reprogram it. If you want to live the life you desire, then it’s time to decide, to commit and to resolve. It’s not what we can do in life that makes a difference it’s what we will do. And there’s no better time to take back control of your mind and set your sights on something better right now



Enjoy your Life

In the life of adulting we become so comfortable with doing the same thing every day like a routine. Get up, go work, come home, cook dinner, go to bed. It isn’t until something unexpected happens that you are forced to change. We forget in the realm of our busy lives to actually live and not just survive. The difference between living and surviving is that when your living life you are living with a purpose and never let anything hold you back from living every day to the fullest. Surviving in life is when you are doing the bare minimum to get by. You will continue to do the necessities to get through each day, no matter if you’re happy or not. In the day to day scramble of surviving of our lives, we’ve forgotten to actually live our lives. Create a life that you are proud of and excited to share when you’re ready to part this world, whenever that will be. Live a life that when you look back on the memories they make you smile. A life with no regrets. Write a story worth telling, a best seller. You are the creator. Stop just surviving in life & actually live it. Find something, someone that makes you feel alive, and live the best life you could ever live.

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