Are you living an amazing life?

“Life is a great big can­vas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.”

- Dan­ny Kaye, actor

I have two ques­tions for you – and be bru­tal­ly hon­est with your answer:

• On a scale of 1 (low) to 10 (high), how good are you at enjoy­ing life in tan­dem with your head success?
• Would you want some­one you love to spend a life­time liv­ing exact­ly as you are right now?

If your answer is not an enthu­si­as­tic, unqual­i­fied, ​‘Heck yeah’, you’ve got work to do, my friend.

Life is meant to be a grand adven­ture. No one comes into this world only to have a boom­ing busi­ness or leg­endary career. A tru­ly amaz­ing life is not just achievement…it’s enjoy­ment of your achieve­ment. It’s enjoy­ment of life.

If you’re not shout­ing from the moun­tain­tops about your life, don’t kid your­self into think­ing you’ll sud­den­ly feel deep joy when your busi­ness reach­es a cer­tain pin­na­cle. That’s not how life works.

Life Pur­pose

It’s easy to get addict­ed to suc­cess. Busi­ness achieve­ment is a high that con­sumes many lead­ers — but it is not the only pur­pose in life. You deserve, and can have, a much larg­er sense of ful­fill­ment; a sense that all aspects of your life are reward­ing and sat­is­fy­ing. As a leader, it’s easy to lose sense of the big­ger pic­ture: to see noth­ing beyond hit­ting your next big goal.

High-achiev­ers are incred­i­bly hard on them­selves – and often sac­ri­fice them­selves, and their per­son­al lives, in the quest for suc­cess. It doesn’t have to be that way, so over the next month, we’re going to talk about what it takes to live an amaz­ing life.

You need to work on this if…

1. You rate your cur­rent enjoy­ment of life less than nine out of 10.
2. You would feel you had used your life well, if it end­ed today.
3. You tend to use up your pas­sion for work, and have lit­tle left for the rest of your life.
4. It’s not nor­mal for you to look for­ward to things in your life.
5. You often find your­self think­ing or say­ing ​“woul­da, coul­da, shoulda”.

Join me for the next instal­ment of the Liv­ing an Amaz­ing Life series when I explore the dif­fer­ence between the suc­cess in your head and your heart.