Have you had your Life MOT?

"We must let go of the life we have planned in order to accept the one that is waiting for us."

So another busy day has lay it's head to rest. And when I say busy, I mean BUSY! One of those days when it feels like your feet haven't had chance to stop. Crazy!

So what's better after a long day, than to do nothing. To sit back and just take a bit of time for yourself. Maybe read a book, maybe on the iPad, maybe watching TV. For me there's loads of things I like to do. Usually the gym is a good way for me to unwind, but one of my other favourite ways to unwind is definitely TV! I'm sure I'm not the only one. To just sit down, sit back and watch the box.

As I sat back this evening to watch a bit of evening TV, I was greeted by an advert offering people a "Good life MOT". 

Now, for those of you who read this and are not sure what an MOT is, here in the UK once a year, our Cars have to have a checkup to make sure they are safe. To make sure they are in good working order.  To make sure they aren'g going to collapse and fall apart whilst your hurtling down the road.

As I watched this advert for a well known vitamin company, and saw their new advertising slogan "Good life MOT", it got me thinking about what sorts of things we would need checked out, to make sure that we are living a good life. To make sure we don't fall apart as we hurtle down the road we call life. 

Maybe it's health? Family? Friends? Hobbies? Partners? Money? There are so many things that we could include on our list for a "Good Life MOT".

Usually I would list my thoughts about what makes a good life, but as I thought about this blog I soon realised, each of us will have different things that we would want to include on a good life MOT. It would be impossible to write the perfect list. It's not my place in this blog to tell you what makes your life good, it's a blog to get you to think about what you think makes your life a good life!

And so I end with this thought. 

For all of us, life holds so many different things. We all have our own ideas of what makes our life "good" but ultimately it's about being happy. Living each day with those people and in those places that make your life a good one. It's the one aspect that it is at the top of the "Good Life MOT" -  to be happy.

Whatever it is you have thought about as you read this blog, whatever you think of as being important in life, make sure that your "Good Life MOT" is full of those things that make you happy. Maybe even write your own "Good Life MOT" and make sure that you are having plenty of them every day.

Life doesn't come with an instruction manual. When you were born, instructions weren't printed on your back. Life comes by living it, and having an MOT every once in a while will make sure that you don't fall apart as you continue to drive along the road we know as Life!

Life Happens - Bywyd yn digwydd

Ryan :)