If you want to be successful, you must change your life.
Changing your life is not something easy to do, but it is doable. You have to understand that sometimes changing the way you live may cause a lot of stress and tension. This is why most people fail to change.
Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone
Staying in your comfort zone will not change your life. Ask yourself this question right now, “Am I feeling comfortable with my life?”
If your answer is a yes, you’re staying in your comfort zone. And if you’re staying in your comfort zone, you will never be successful. Unless you’re already successful, you must not live in comfortable.
Try this exercise right now:
Lift your right leg and spin it in the clockwise direction. After that lift up your right hand, and try to write the number ‘six’ in the air. Can you do this?
You cannot. The moment you try to write the number ‘six’ with your hand, your leg will turn the other way round.
I’ll explain the reasons for doing this exercise later. Now, let’s try doing another exercise.
Try to cross your arm just like you always did when you are standing and have nothing to do. Are you doing it with ease? Great.
Next, try to cross your arm the other way round. What do you feel? Do you feel it is hard to do?
So what can you learn from this?
Change Is Difficult, But It Can Be Done
You will feel that when you’re trying to write the number ‘six’ with your right hand, your right leg will not follow your instruction anymore. This is because your mind has conditioned your leg and your hand to act together. If you try it for some time, you will be able to do the exercise perfectly.
It is just like when you are trying to cross your hand the other way, which is the other way that you usually do, you will feel odd. Again, you have conditioned your mind to do it the usual way. So when you’re trying to cross it the other way, you will feel odd.
Therefore, change is not an easy task. It is difficult to change at first and you must learn to venture out of your comfort zone.
Change might be difficult, but it can be done. You did cross your hand the other way didn’t you? Of course you did, it can be done.
If you’re pursuing success in life, it will be the same theory.
Some people find it hard to even spend 10 minutes into reading any self-improvement book. Believe me, if you’re one of them, it is just because it is the starting point. That is why you will find it difficult. I can tell you frankly that I will find it hard for me not to read any book in a day.
That is because I’ve conditioned my mind and body into a situation where reading everyday is a must in my life. You can do the same.
How To Change Your Life
Now, you understand that change is not easy, but it is doable. However, how can you change your life for the better?
I don’t know what dreams or goals you have in your life, but if you want to change your life to reach your destiny, here are some of my suggestions…
1. You’ll have to do it slowly and start small in the beginning. For example, if you want to adopt the habit of reading daily, you can start small and slow. Read for 10 or 15 minutes everyday, and then slowly increase the time you put into doing it.
2. The next very important key in changing your life and your habit, is consistency. You cannot change your life if you are not consistent with it. Let me ask you this, how do you bath? The way you bath is exactly the same everyday. You’ll find it difficult when you try to change it. This is simply because you have bathed the same way for years!
How do you set or comb your hair? If you do it the same way everyday in front of the mirror, can you do it without the mirror one day? You bet! However, after you have cut your hair, you will find it a little hard to do. That is because your mind has not yet condition how you are going to do it.
3. Do it for at least 30 days. When you try to change, you need to have the consistency and discipline. If you can do it for at least 30 days, you will be able to form a new habit, and change your life slowly.
Just imagine if you can adopt a new positive habit into your life once every two months. Can you see what will happen to you in the next 3 years? You are going to adopt 18 new positive habits! Do yo think this is good enough to change your life? You bet, it definitely will!
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