OK, so now you have your list of
1) Things that bring you life
and
2) Things that bring you death

Here’s what you do with them (don’t read this until you’ve gone through the first part of the exercise)

Think about your life recently. Be honest. What are you doing with it?

Are you spending it pursuing life?

or…

Are you wasting it avoiding death?

This is an exercise I performed myself about two years ago. As simple as it is, it changed my life. I realized my life had been spent avoiding death, avoiding pain, and avoiding conflict. I couldn’t see joy on the other side of pain. Healing on the other side of conflict. If only I saw life on the other side, I would go toe-to-toe with what I consider “death.”

Here’s the question you have to ask yourself:
“Am I content with simply surviving, or do I really want to THRIVE?”

And if you want to thrive, then you’ll need to pursue life relentlessly. Even if it means coming face-to-face with death instead of running away.