Move to a new life (part 2)

How do we create a new life? Or at least change the parts we don’t like while keeping the parts we do like?

Substitution. Stop doing something in favor of doing something else. Stop reading something in favor of reading something else with a different voice or content. Change a habit (you are your habits).

Stop eating something in favor of eating something else. Stop listening to something, and do something different with that time instead. Stop hanging around with certain people, in favor of hanging around others instead. Take the stuff off the wall so you can hang up something else instead.

You can make a lot of changes starting now, or just one or a few at a time – it’s up to you. You can change your entire life this way, starting right now from where you are.

Do you want to make any changes? What will you substitute starting now?

Move to a new life (part 1)

You know the story about someone who just picks up and moves to a new town, and lives a whole new life? One that may be fresh and exciting (at first anyway). Why is their new life so new and interesting?

It’s because they have completely changed what their cameras see and what their microphones hear. It’s all new and interesting. They live in a new place, get new friends, a new job, and see new things. And the new people don’t treat you like your old friends and co-workers where you came from. The new people don’t know you yet or have experience with how you behave, and the places and job don’t have those old psychological anchors (memories) like your old places did.

But wherever you go, there you are. You are the common denominator. Eventually your beliefs, expectations and patterns of thought will craft a life pretty close to the one you left behind. You can’t run away from yourself.

The great news is you can have a new life without rolling the dice and doing something as drastic as picking up and moving away…  

(to be continued)

The cameras and the microphones (part 2)

If we control what we put in front of our eyes and what sounds our ears hear, we can control the quality of our thoughts, beliefs and expectations. And that makes all the difference in our world. It will literally change the direction of our lives – and direction + time equals destiny (destination).

You know how.  

Change what you put in front of your cameras – what you read, watch, and your environment.

Change what your microphones hear – what you listen to, the audio that comes with video, the sounds a given environment produces.

What will you change?

The cameras and the microphones (part 1)

How do we prevent our minds from going negative? How do we keep from thinking about unproductive, unsettling things that don’t help us get to our goals?

Your mind is a computer that responds to what you put in it day in and day out. Information, images, commands, and questions – it doesn’t care the quality of the input – it will go to work processing whatever we put in. So how do we control this thing in us, this thing we call us – the very program we run on?

It sounds like one of life’s great questions and perhaps mysteries. But it’s really not that hard at all. Most of the information we take in is through our two cameras (eyes) and microphones (ears). Just control what we put in front of our eyes and what sounds our ears hear. That’s it.

(cont.)

Spectators don't make history

If we want to change the world, we have to get up, get out, get involved or lead, and do something that matters.

What are you doing/can you do that makes a difference? 

How can I make me proud?

What can you do today that you’d be proud of?  

Make you proud by the end of this day!

You are adaptable

It’s amazing. When you start working out your body, it says “Ok, this is what we are doing now…I’ll respond and build stronger muscles and bones.”  

The mind is the same. When you begin working it harder or differently, it says “Ok, I’ll work on getting sharper, faster, more attuned…”

We came with the adaptable equipment to change and get better.

How are you using it?

The New Year's Resolution Effect

People make resolutions to get healthier and get fit and do all kinds of things, and stick to them for only a month or so. Why? Because the reasons they made those decisions weren’t the right reasons.

People stick with things and are disciplined over the long run do them because they have made a personal decision for internal reasons, not external ones. We only have so much willpower to override the ideas and beliefs coming from deep within. But when the ideas and beliefs coming from deep within are what is making us do what we do, then we can stick with it because we really want to.

Sometimes if we are struggling with staying on track, we need the right why. If we think about our beliefs and why we are doing it, and make an internal personal decision, it can make all the difference.

What can you give?

Your Strengths + Interests + What the world needs =____________________ .

What’s that?

You're here now

There was a time before you were alive.

There will be a time when you are no longer alive.

But you are alive, right now.

Now is the time.