Tips On Creating Change In Your Life
What sorts of things help support us in changing or making a new habit?
Visualizing can be really effective for many people. The clearer you picture your goal and how awesome you’ll feel when you reach it, the easier it becomes to make the essential changes to get there.
Affirmations can also help you reach a goal. Come up with a statement as if you’ve already achieved what you wish. “I AM happy,” rather than, “I want to be happy,” and then repeat it during the day, each day till you are on your way.
Having structure with others can also help you to change. If, for example, you would like to lose weight and get into better shape, you can join a class at a community college for weight liftiing, aerobic work outs, or sport. In a class you are given an overview of goals, a schedule for working out, a finite course over a few weeks and most likely you will have to keep a record of your workouts and your performance will be reviewed, which means you must be responsible to somebody. It will be way easier to stick with because you won’t be doing it alone. Working out in your own home has the convenience of location and time, there is, however, no accountability except to yourself and you haven’t got any company while doing it. If you have been having trouble creating a new habit, find a group or a class where you can join others who are trying to achieve similar goals.
There are other things too, that may make it easier or harder to change. One is our image of our self and our abilities. Do we think we will succeed, or do we predict we intend to quit? Are we able to picture ourselves (again the visualization) where we’d like to be, or are we uncomfortable with the concept of being there? For example, would you be comfortable being wealthy, or would you feel guilty for having wealth when so many are poor? You’ll have to work out any issues you have before you will be able to comfortably keep a new habit or way of life.
Occasionally a little change goes far to support making an enormous change. For instance, some men will grow a beard or shave one off and some girls will change their hairstyle or hair colour when they are psychologically trying to make a larger change in their lives. They’d shave a beard when they begin dating, or colour their hair when they’re trying to lose weight. A little visible change acts as a heads up that you are indeed changing and not quite the same person you used to be. Redecorating a room in your home or your office is another small change that can function as a reminder for other changes in habit or new attitudes.
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