When was the last time you were EXCITED?

Try and remember the last time you were excited. I tried and I couldn’t quite remember, which made me think that it must have been some time ago. I am normally a happy person, but this thought made me feel quite the opposite. I have not felt the urge to jump out for joy or yell out in excitement about a monumental occurrence in my life.

Think about the last time you were truly excited? A moment that compelled you stand up and dance around and hug the first person you saw. If you can’t remember, than you and I have to sit down and do some serious thinking, and maybe write a to-do list.

I remember that intense feeling, that excitement, that rush, but now it seems as uncommon as an eclipse. So, I realize that I have to get off my butt and seek out more opportunity to reinvigorate this unfortunate and stale realization.

I can always wait around for someone to stop me on the street and offer me the best job in the world, or for my numbers to be drawn in the next lottery, or suddenly to wake up young again, but then I’ll be waiting forever.

Waiting to get excited is never going to happen, and if it does, it is rare. Taking action and providing opportunity to eventually become excited is much more in my favour. Which is why I have to implement more ways to encourage potential excitement.

But first, I have to sit down and realize what it is that truly makes me excited. The particular things such as completing a difficult task, helping other people, networking, diving into something unknown, finding out the person you love wants to spend the rest of their life with you, etc.

I must be creative and make a list of both short term and long term goals to try and achieve. The more things I do the more people I can meet, the more things can happen, and the more excited I can become. Whether it’s joining an art class, completing a half marathon, learning a new language, changing my career, if I don’t step outside my everyday element the sense of excitement will gradually disappear.

This is always easier said than done, but I have realized that if I want to experience the positive, powerful sensation of true excitement I have to live my life the way I feel it should be lived – without fear and without the constant stress of the little things. I have to take action and continue to work hard. I have to reach my goals and continue to set more.

Remember that feeling, like a rush of bliss to the head, it will continue to motivate us and if we are lucky and smart we’ll be able to feel it again and again.