8 Practical Power Tips For Maximizing Your Single Life

Singleness does not have to be perceived as a difficult and lonely road. Here are some practical power tips that will help maximize this potentially wonderful season of life.

1. Focus on God.

Allow your pursuit of God to supersede your pursuit of a mate. Proper pursuit can and will protect one from making wrong decisions. You are His. (Isaiah 43:1b KJV)

2. Don’t be married to everyone else’s expectations.

Remember that your singleness is not everyone else’s opportunity, but your own. Own it and don’t feel guilty when saying “no.” Spend time with yourself.

3. Increase your level of self-awareness and appreciation.

Do you like yourself? Are you giving adequate attention to your likes and developing yourself as a person on all levels.

4. Overcome loneliness.

The enemy utilizes the feeling of loneliness to make you believe something other than what God says. Remember that being alone may be your reality, but being lonely is your choice. Choose to be happy with you.

5. Optimize self-investment opportunities.

Learn to appreciate the time to enhance your intellectual, educational, professional, social, emotional and physical self. Support and celebrate. Spend your time and energy volunteering, mentoring and giving back to both your church and community.

6. Seek quality fellowship.

Strong relationships should not be forfeited but nurtured and grown. Are you building a strong foundation of relationships with family, friends, mentors, sorority sisters, frat brothers, co-workers and church members?

7. Redirect your physical energy toward activities that release endorphins.

Understand that your physical desires may be natural, but your actions must align with God’s order and will for your life.

8. Know that your life has already begun and that it is not finished.

Within the realm of obedience to God, don’t delay doing things you want to do with the hope that you will when you get married. And don’t submit to the mindset that since you are not married, you cannot do certain things.