I’ve been on this planet for just over 40 years and that is not a very long time (if you’re a mountain). But it is long enough to start to get a feel for life. It seems that many people are looking for the same thing; some call it fulfillment, some call it enlightenment and some call it happiness. But whatever label people want to put on it, it is really a matter of experiencing a full life. Jesus talked about this when he was on the earth and we read about in John chapter ten verse ten.

“…I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” – Jesus (John 10:10b)

So what does it mean to live a full life? How does one do that with the cares and concerns of the world today? Is it possible to live a full life? What would have to change in your world in order for you to have a full life?

Well, this site is dedicated to answering just such questions. We’re going to look into the art and science of living life to the full. What does it mean to be fully alive physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually and socially? What are the prerequisites to living a full life? What are the practical implications of living a full life? What tools and techniques are available to help you with just such a life? And what would change around you if you could say, every day, that your life was a 10 on a scale of 1 to 10?

If you’re looking for original thought then I’m afraid you’ve come to the wrong place. If you are looking for something religious then you’ve come to the wrong place. If you are looking for a quick fix then you’ve come to the wrong place. If you’re looking for the accumulation of the best and most practical thinking around living a full life then you will find that here. I would be the last one to tell you that if you that I have figured it all out…I’m a fellow traveler, just as you are. I’m also somebody who does not want to get to the end of my life and discover that I had not truly lived.

Henry David Thoreau said “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” [Walden]

Let’s learn together. Let’s journey together. Let’s go in search of a full life together.

Jim Finwick
Colorado Springs, Colorado, 10/10/2008

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