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6 Reasons You Should Get Up Right Now And Start Living

The beauty of living is unpredictability.

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If you're anything like me, you spend the majority of your days watching Netflix, going out for food, hanging out with friends, eating food, being lazy on the couch, eating food, sleeping, and repeating. Food is important. There is nothing wrong with that. Sometimes, a long period of time of doing nothing is good for the body because you're able to regroup after a consistent and exhausting daily routine.

Then, there are times where you miss out on some great things because you've become prone to "couch potato" life. Hey, I mean, guilty as charged sometimes. But, even I ask myself what could I be doing today and when should I start? The answer – anything and now.

So, why should anything prevent that anyway?

Age is just a number

My Nana turned 70 years old a couple of days ago and she spends her retired days walking 10 miles, every day, in San Diego, reading books. She'll go dancing with my Grandpa, and probably show up everybody else, she'll take unexpected trips, she'll make trips up here just to hang out with me and my family/ And every day, she'll remind us that she is lucky to have another day because age got nothing on her.

Not every day is promised

I'm sure you've heard 100 times over and you think it is cliché by now, but is it untrue? No. Not every day is going to be there when you wake up and you want to go to sleep every day knowing that the day you just spent, was worth it.

It doesn't always have to big things to remind if it was either, it could be that you simply paid for the person's coffee behind you, or you made a donation, or you laughed so hard you could barely breathe – whatever the case may be – you should end the day knowing you got that time on this Earth when someone else didn't.

Opportunity is not given to you, it is created

Ever heard of the saying "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take?"

Not having a plan right away is the best starting point

The best kind of living is through unpredictability. No one should be making a list that basically says "OK, so today, I'm going to live like this. Tomorrow, I'll live like this" and so on. What fun is that? Living is about seizing the moment so go towards the people parachuting off the mountain, find the closest hiking trail and jump in the water, make a rope swing from a tree, take a road trip with some friends, the options are limitless.

Fear is only a mind game

Don't let the idea of not being able to do something stand in the way of knowing you are capable of doing something great.

You CAN do it

Making excuses on why you'd rather take the time to relax and be lazy as opposed to making something out of the day – I totally get that. I've done that more than I admit. But, also realize that no one and nothing is keeping you from doing what you want to do, it's about choice. We are born, there's a dash, and we die, it is up to us to decide what that dash means to us. So, what's it going to be?

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