What does it mean to live great? I think i’ve been trying to the best of my ability by making changes to my life in the past two years. It’s not like i sat down one day and thought “OKAY! i want to get healthier, and see the people i love more, and sort out my finances better…”

No, it didn’t happen that way. What really happened was a slow and i would say, natural, progression of how i WANT my life to be.

I want to be healthier. But i hate going to the gym. So i turned to different forms of exercise like yoga and powerplate. I love both these exercises, and try my best to go for classes even if it means sleeping an hour less or timing my work to the minute so i can reach class on time. Most people work out to lose weight… but obviously that’s not the case for me cos my parents think i’m too thin! I work out because:
1) I want to be FIT. i want to be able to lift erm some things without looking like i’m going to bring everything down in a crash! i wanted to be able to open my office door without having to lean on it -_- And now i can yay! Haha
2) I wanted to be toned, so i’d look better in my clothes (and bikini) hee hee
3) And most importantly, i really believe all this exercise will benefit me in the long run. We all die one day. I would like to delay that as long as possible. Bam. That’s the truth.

I want to be more financially stable. I’ve always been a terrible planner with my money. I earn and i spend. End. I never think of how much i should be saving, or what i should be saving towards. I’m just… kind of an irresponsible adult that way! But one day i was thinking… what if i had to make sure i have a roof over my head? What sort of assets did i have? Nothing! So i started scouting for property to buy – to invest in. Now that i’ve chosen a piece of property, i feel a bit more secure that i have some GOAL to be saving towards – to furnish it, rent it out… then go buy another one (maybe, don’t know about that one yet!). I just needed a reason to spend less on clothes and frivolous things and KEEP CONTROL of my spending and at least, have an asset at the end of the day instead of all my money flying away.

I want to be healthier. Already i’ve cut down my drinking by half of what i used to consume in my early 20s, but without meaning to. I just didn’t FEEL like going out and drinking so much anymore. I can probably attribute that to living with Clem too 🙂 I’d rather spend time at home with Clem on weeknights instead of drinking them all away. Oh and also i was so busy with work. So they’re both reasons to decrease my alcohol intake! – Love and Work 🙂

I wanted to eat a lot better. And i do now. I let myself eat whatever i want when i want (i know i AM so lucky), but i think about the type of food i’m putting into my mouth. I avoid oily and fried foods if i can, and allow myself a KFC craving once every two months. I avoid McDonald’s altogether cos it’s just so awful in KL. I started cooking just so i can prepare and consume better ingredients, and eat my favourite dishes whenever i want. I’ve cut down on meat and favour fish and salads/veggies a lot more than i used to. I didn’t plan it tho… i just slowly lost the desire to eat out, especially at places where you don’t know how the food is prepared. I don’t scrimp on food. I was just thinking the other day that as long as i have money to buy me all the good food i want for the rest of my life, i’ll be FINE.

I wanted to be a lot happier. As it is, i work and plan my entire year so that i can travel cos that makes me utterly happy. When it comes to a daily basis, i found that i wasn’t being as HAPPY as i was, and should be, and CAN. So i started working towards making some changes in the WORK that i do, the PEOPLE i hang out with, and to be able to spend more quality time with Clem and my family. I’ve missed working on fashion so so much, and finally told my bosses i’d like to drastically cut down on my hours in the office just so i can spend more of my effort and time working on fashion projects i enjoy more. I want to bring Leftblock to life again. I want to be more involved with the fashion community again. I would like a balance of all these things that i do – and finally got over the first step towards that, by getting over my FEAR. I had this fear for quite a long time. And one day, it just SNAPPED in my head – “What am i doing? What would i like my life to be about? What do i want to ACHIEVE?” I don’t want to be like everyone else stuck in an office job and slowly/scarily conforming to it. That’s not what i believe life should be about, and i would be a hypocrite if i let myself continue living it.

I got all the images above off a Facebook page, Great Eastern’s Facebook page, to be exact. Their page surprised me with all these interesting anecdotes and links on how to lead a happier, healthier and better life. I particularly love this link i got from there too – 50 Ways To Nurture Your Happiness. I bookmarked it so i can revisit it 🙂

I know Great Eastern as an insurance company but it looks like they’ve made some changes to the way they look at life insurance:

“At Great Eastern, we’re renowned for a strong legacy of putting you, our customers first. We’ve been providing you with the best solutions to protect yourself and your family over the years. But we do more than just that. We are also committed to help you achieve your good intentions of living healthier, better and longer so you can spend more time with the ones you love. Because we’re not just a life insurance company anymore. We’re a life company.”

I like the sound of that, a LIFE company.

Great Eastern Group have just launched “Live Great”, the first integrated Health and Wellness programme by an insurance company in the region, signaling a bold new direction for the life insurance industry. This programme stems from the company’s belief that there will never be another you to love your family as you can and that while life insurance is important, it can never replace what matters most to them… YOU!

I went to their Live Great website and surfed around to find that it’s got all this content that makes it look more like an online mag or portal, than an insurance one.

There are all these tabs which drop down to MORE interesting information (When i really delved into this website, the first thing i thought was: “Wow. They really put a lot of effort into this” mostly because i know what it takes to run a website!)

To surf around their website more, the link is
livegreat.greateasternlife.com

To gather more interesting links and stories they post on their Facebook, go LIKE
facebook.com/GreatEasternLifeAssurance

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