It’s easier to spend money and energy on other people than on ourselves. It’s easier to spend money and energy on maintaining life and work (groceries, computer repair) than on enhancing life and work (i.e., organic groceries, or that new light-weight laptop that would change everything).

Today, take the leap: what can do you in the enhancement category? Looks at the categories of your life: spiritual, health, family, home, professional life, creativity and recreation, dreams and visions. Write down what you’ve done lately to enhance one or more of these. In my life, I can point to the home area and say that I’m looking for a painter for the living room and an electrician to get rid of the creepy fluorescents in the bathroom and kitchen; and in the professional area, I’ve hired a business consultant to help me launch my holistic health coaching practice, and I’m having my website remastered to make it interactive and far more viable than it is now. 

After you’ve written what you’ve done already (and don’t worry if you don’t have a lot to say), write down what you can realistically do in the next 90 days to enhance each of the 7 categories. Your list might look like:

Spiritual – get an intro session with a spiritual-life coach

Health – get a buddy to go to the gym with

Family –make one night a week family night

Home – read feng shui book (try Collins’ The Western Guide to Feng Shui)

Professional life – take a free tech class at the Mac store

Creativity & recreation – do something fun every single week between now and Christmas

Dreams & visions — make a treasure map or vision board

It’s your life, so you’ll know what to do with it. Just be willing to make the investment. It’ll pay ya back handsomely.