I like Donna Farhi's question, "Am I becoming the world I want to live in?"

A journey without a destination is nothing more than an aimless wandering. Setting destination type goals and taking action in the present towards your goals creates the life you will want and will give you the true sense of achievement and value expression that will help you contribute to the good of the world. The inner focus yoga entails directs you to the true source of designing your destination goals on your terms and the peace to direct your energies towards them, by blocking out the many forces that pull you towards their goals. Coaching gives you the real clarity to know who you are today and where you want to be in the future.

Planning too many things hardly work.With practice of Yoga & Meditation, you stay focused & with inner connection & lesser socialization, You feel blessed & find inner peace. Blessings.

Nora, great article. So many awesome tips, just wanted to let you know I really enjoyed it!

Productive and meaningful life change capable of leading to the creation of a life one loves may require more that yogic practice, meditation, a life coach, or any "external" advice. Emotional intelligence; recognizing and acknowledging the need and value of emotional intelligence is, I suspect, the primary reason many people fail to achieve the integration of mind, body, and spirit necessary to "Create a Life You Love."

Self-knowledge and understanding require a whole mind approach. Clarity of intentions, with respect to "creating a life you love," necessitate an uncommon degree of honesty, and constitute the starting point for productive and meaningful life change.

Creating a life you love may not accord with ones present and fundamental needs. There is a hierarchy of need, in general, and specific to each individual. Creating a life you love is a worthy goal. But creating the ability to merely tolerate, or accommodate life's many challenges may well constitute a necessary first objective.

Besides, what does it mean to love your life? I am not suggesting this is wrong headed. I am merely posing the question to evaluate its true purpose, meaning and value. For instance, if I am struggling to find a cure for cancer, does that effort necessitate that I love my life? Did Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, Socrates, and countless other highly functional, insightful, and caring exemplary personages achieve worthy goals as a result of loving their lives? In the best of worlds, probable. In reality, I doubt it. Therefore, I suspect creating a life you love, though a very worthy goal, is not always rational, and must be occasionally subsumed to higher goals.