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pick-upThe decision to change my life was a relatively simple one and it only took half a second at a time.

Choice. Everything in life boils down to a choice. Everything. Perhaps on a level we aren’t even aware of. Sometimes it’s a single choice but more often it’s a series of many choices.

A holding pattern develops when we aren’t conscious of the choices we make on a moment to moment basis. We act in ways that don’t benefit us and we develop ineffective behaviors and strategies, never realizing that somewhere in our process lies a place to decide something different. We continue acting the way we do and we never get anywhere in lives. We stay in a holding pattern.

Because we are thinking so fast, we act on our immediate thoughts and never question what we are doing or why we are doing it. We act and behave according to the choices we unconsciously make, never knowing we are in a holding pattern.

There’s a way to change this though…

We change it by becoming conscious..

of our thoughts…

from moment…

to moment.

Can you see the perfect you? The person who would never do that behavior?

Can you feel what it’s like to be that person? Are they confident and totally in control of their life?

What would that person say to you? What would they tell you to do?

We all know the wonderful things that happen when we accomplish something. Our mind begins to build the image of or new future and our lives begin to change in ways we couldn’t have imagined. We build new neurological pathways inside our brain.

Realizing we have other options gives us choice and enables us to break free from our holding patterns. How often do you question your behavior? How often are you making the right choice? [Click to Continue Reading…]

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Taking action and making progress, even if that means discomfort and effort.

Two topics we regularly visit on this journal are discipline and taking action.  And with New Years just around the corner, I think all of can benefit from the feeling of a fresh start.

Why do we return to talking about these things again and again? It’s because I don’t get skills or progress from reading about them. I get them from taking continuous, consistent action until it’s drilled into my mind as a well-practiced part of me.

Sure, I can get enthusiastic and inspired. Those are great things to feel. But if I do not take action and endure the temporary pain of whatever it is, I will not make progress or move forward. If it wasn’t uncomfortable or painful to me in some way, I would have already done whatever it is I haven’t done yet!

In any self-improvement venture, there is something [Click to Continue Reading…]

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