Vicarious living stops you being

Most people avoid living their lives by living vicariously through others. How do you know if you are doing this?

• Check your reading material. If all you read is the lives and times of the rich and infamous, then you are living your life through other people's experiences.
• What do you watch on the television? Do you spend most of your time watching the reality TV and other shows? Why would you want to watch other people living their lives? Surely it would be better for you to live yours in such a way that tv stations want to follow you around...and I do mean that in a good way. BTW - Actors and Actresses are paid to do a job, they're just fortunate to be able to combine working with what they love to do. They are living their dreams, and you are watching them do it.
• Do you have friends you call to find out what they've been doing recently? And when they ask you what you're currently up to, you always tell them - you're about to embark on some ambitious project, but somehow you never manage to start because something gets in the way?

The quality of your own life is directly linked to what you put into your mind. Therefore it stands to reason that if you want to get more from your life, you are going to have to stop reading the gossip mags and watching the soap operas and reality TV, stop watching other people live their dreams, and start living your own.