Create Change in your life

Belief is fundamental before you will achieve anything in life. It may sound obvious, but it is very true, if you don’t believe something will happen in the future by the actions you take today, you will not even bother to start. Belief is a fundamental ingredient if you are to manifest any change in your life. When you don’t believe you always look for ways to confirm (normally by way of inaction) what you don’t believe will happen to be true. This is very easy to do.

So it is important when you set off on making changes to any aspect of your life that you first believe you can do it, and this means really believing even to the point of expectation, like you completely and utterly believe you will be able to carry out whatever goal or plan you have set for yourself.

There are probably many reasons why people don’t achieve what they want in life, one of the reasons will be a lack of belief. So you have to believe and you also have to….

• Encourage yourself
• Respect and think highly of yourself
• Keep on taking action until the life you want manifests itself

It may sound very simple but is there really a need to complicate things?

Is there really a secret to all this, to living your ideal life, I am not sure, but fundamentally at the core of any journey or path to a better life, there has to be faith, belief, self-confidence, and a healthy respect for yourself that you are indeed deserving and entitled to lead the life you want for yourself, and of course you are, but it is important that you firmly believe this when you set out on your journey.

In the early stages of change, it will be so much easier to give up and do something else. But the people who you see now living the life you most want to live could probably have given up as well, but they didn’t instead they kept on going and so should you.

There should be no need to get bogged down by negativity, observe it, and be aware of it if it happens in your life, but never let it have the final say. You will have the final say when you are living and breathing your ideal life.

When you have a goal in mind or something you want to achieve, you have to be positive about it and believe it will be possible right from the very first moment the thought enters your head. For example, I want this…. and yes I believe I can do it. I will do it., I will take action until it happens.

That’s it. No self doubt, no worry and certainly no ‘it will never happen’, or ‘it’s impossible’, because they will not help you.

The reality you live and will live in the future is dictated to by your thoughts and beliefs. So if you don’t believe something will happen or indeed it is possible guess what will transpire in the coming weeks and months?

First of all decide what it is that you want?

Now look around in as many places as you can and see if it has been done before?

If it has then you already know it is possible, you don’t have to believe because you already know it has been done before. So just get on with it and make it happen for yourself. You are no different to others who have made it happen you are just at a different stage in your journey.

If it hasn’t been done before, get ready to be the first to ever do it. It doesn’t mean it is impossible, it just means that it hasn’t been done yet. If you want to create something that hasn’t been done before believe you can do it and start taking action. There are many things in this world that were not always here, and so the person bringing them into manifestation would have not seen any examples of what they wanted to happen but he or she would have still carried on believing and taking action, and so should you.

Nothing is impossible, only the mind makes it so. Successful people are sometimes those that just kept going, carried on believing in themselves and never stopped taking action. It is not rocket science.

Believe it can be done always, because otherwise the moments of disbelief, will turn into days of inaction, which will delay you getting to where you want to be.

So first you have to……

• Always believe it will happen, and sometimes it is just better to know it will happen
• Keep encouraging yourself
• Look at where you were and where you are now
• Set short term targets
• Keep taking action until the life you want transpires in front of you

The simpler you can make it the better, it doesn’t have to be nor should creating the changes you most want in your life be difficult or hard. Take things bit by bit, and eventually you to will have a story to tell about how you completely changed your life around.

If the life you want has been done before then you should not be your own roadblock to success. Just keep on keeping on. Don’t make it harder than it needs to be.

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A powerful tool

Your mind is a powerful tool and it is something that needs to be working for you at all times, never against you. You control your own mind and your own thoughts, every single one of them.

Most people would probably say their minds controlled them, it doesn’t, our mind is a tool to be used as effectively as possible. Your brain can take you to wherever you want to go in life, it is equally capable and happy to take you to places where you don’t want to be. The highest highs and also the lowest lows, you decide.

Say the word ‘beach’ and what do you think about? Picture an apple tree and what do you see? You control everything that happens in your own mind. There is great power in this, the power comes from the life you will lead as a result of what happens in your mind first.

You can direct your brain at all times, you can tell it where you want to go. If you don’t control your brain then who does? And if you don’t learn to manipulate your own mind to get what you want then what will the consequences of this be?

The meaning makers

The meaning you give to anything is whatever you decide to hold in your mind. Reality is whatever meaning you decide to place on the events that happen in your life. It is from the eyes of your mind that your future life will be created, reality isn’t necessarily what happens to you right now, reality is what you decide to feel about what happens right now, the perception you attribute to the thoughts you think and the world you see is what makes it real to you.

When you manipulate things in your mind, ideas, concepts, thoughts, you change the outer aspects of your world. A mind made concept is something that has no existence in the real world it is formed in the mind only, you can’t make a movie of a belief you have, you can only make a movie of the actions of that belief.

We all decide what meanings we give to the events we have in our life, and also the thoughts we think, and we are able to change this meaning at any time, the meanings we give to things that have happened in the past do not have to be the meanings we attribute to these things in the future.

Meanings and the perceptions of the events and even the ideas you have are all mind made concepts.

“Meaning is to hold in mind.”
“Meaning in an invented reality”

So it is all choice, we might not believe it at first, but our lives are indeed based on the choices we have made and will continue to make in the future. So in order to create a better life for ourselves and indeed others, it is in our best interests to first decide to form empowering beliefs about ourselves, and what we can do and create in our life.

Saying we can’t do this or that, looking at our life as it is today and not believing it will be different in the future are not the most useful things we can or should be doing with our mind. What you want to be doing with your mind is reminding yourself of how great your future will be, how you have got what it takes to get you there and what exactly you will do to make it happen. There are essentially two roads your mind can take you, the road which leads to where you want to be, and the road which leads to the place you don’t want to be. You want to be focusing on where you want to be going at all times.

Your mind is a tool to be used here and now, and you decide exactly where it will take you at all times, always remember this.

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Possibilities

When faced with uncertainty, it is sometimes looked upon as a negative to not know what you want, when people arrive at a crossroads in their lives, being unclear about what to do normally brings with it introspection and self doubt and more than likely a little concern about what the future will bring. But perhaps another way to look at this critical junction, is that it is a point in time when you have many potential avenues available to you that were not there before.

“At the point of uncertainty you are open to all possibilities.”

A time when instead of having no clue about what to do and consequently feeling apprehension about it, it becomes a time to look at a much bigger picture, a picture filled with numerous opportunities some of which you may never of considered before and probably would never consider if you were to stay on your current path. It is at these crossroads that anything is possible in your life. At these moments in your life you should not limit your choices but rather embrace all potential future scenarios as options for yourself.

Just because you don’t know what you want to do or are unsure what direction you want to take doesn’t automatically mean that it is something to feel bad about (or feel frustrated over).

When you arrive at a turning point in your life it is important you explore all options, it is not something trivial to be put to one side and re-evaluated at a later time. It is your life and it is important to spend time with any ideas or motives that you may have to do something different.

You have the potential of being anything you want. In today’s society there are more prospects than ever before to create a life for yourself that is truly unique to you. Today you can redefine you and your life in ways that 50 years ago were unheard of.

Technological advancements in our everyday lives and in terms of understanding the human mind provide us with ample opportunities to create change in our lives.

When you are uncertain about the road to travel down, remind yourself that your life is unique and that there is no correct path that works for everybody. We are all different and everybody faces difficult decisions about which direction to take at some point in their life. Just because you are faced with choices wherever you are or however old you are doesn’t matter, all that matters is that you see your situation in a positive light and investigate all options available.

Our choices provide us with a glimpse of ourselves standing in new surroundings; they are a chance for us to see ourselves in the future. They are a blueprint for what may be possible for us, a life that is not yet realized and what previously could not be foreseen.

Stories not yet told, experiences not yet fulfilled.

Do you ever look around and wonder what happened? We all realize hindsight is a beautiful thing but sometimes we lack the foresight to ever come up with new ideas.

The thing is there are new ideas all around, tomorrow something could be invented that will change the lives of people everywhere. Somebody once said years ago, that everything that needs to be invented has already been invented … Not quite.

Opportunities are everywhere around you, all you need to do is open your eyes. Instead of seeing nothing but roadblocks and barriers to stop you from getting what you want, be hopeful about the future and understand that any decision you make has potential to take you on a new journey in life.

There is a place for you in this world, a place for you to be the best you can be. When you find that person in you (who is aligned on all levels), one who is congruent with his / her values and skills in life, and who is doing what they really want in life, then nothing will stop you, your will and desire to succeed will be too strong for any obstacle.

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Taking action is be one of the biggest factors that separates success from failure, action is the difference between living the life you want and not living the life you want. From having what you want to going without.

Whether action is reading a book, writing a book, creating a website, helping others, selling your house, self development, quitting a bad habit, learning a language, taking up an evening class to learn a new hobby or skill, re-writing your CV, contacting friends you haven’t seen for a while, improving yourself in some way or forcing yourself out of your comfort zone, action has an undeniable quality about it, it can’t be ignored and is an absolute must when creating change in your life.

Let’s say you want to start your own business, you have thought about it for a long time, read numerous books on the subject, spoken to people about your plans, they are all for it! But you still don’t do it! Why?

We all have ideas for products that could be very successful but how many people talk about it and how many people actually decide to do something about it?

We all know of people who talk about what they want to do in the future, but how many of these same people are actually doing it months later?

You have a real chance of success when you take action, you immediately start to make progress against the goals you have set for yourself, you start learning about what works and what doesn’t. However little your initial steps maybe, by taking these steps you are saying ‘This is what I want and this is what I am going to do about it’. Rather than just sit there and think about taking action. I know if there was a medal for thinking about taking action then I would surely win it, but there isn’t and rightly so.

However here’s another way to look at it, if you don’t take action towards whatever it is you want in your life, you are absolutely 100% guaranteed not to get it. By not taking action you are sealing your fate before you have even attempted to start.

Nothing comes from nothing right? I firmly believe that if you take action towards your goals or whatever you want to change in your life, then you are already doing more than a lot of people out there.

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a step ..”
-Lao Tzu

What stops people taking action?

There is simply far too much to gain from taking action then not taking it when you are on a course of self development. You know something has to change, and yet you still don’t take action, why is this? I am guilty of this myself.

Laziness
Motivation
Money
Time
Fear

Maybe you think your goal is too big, and that whatever you do today will have no impact so you don’t bother doing anything, this is a classic mistake to make, believing that what you do today has no impact on the overall goal. But doing something is always better than doing nothing, little by little great things can be achieved, it’s the simply little changes in your daily life that over time can make the biggest impact. It is by making a commitment to yourself each day to do something towards improving your life, however small, that over time will affect your life greatly. Before you know it, real big changes have been made. Businesses are created, relationships formed, languages learned and lasting changes made.

Break the problem down into smaller chunks, instead of looking at the overall outcome.

What is it that you are going to do today that will make a difference in your life tomorrow?

Let’s say you have a characteristic about yourself you want to improve, for example to be more socially confident, from where you are now (shy, timid and nervous), this may seem like a long way off, but if each day you make a commitment to do something about it and then take action to achieve it, you are already on your way to overcoming the problem and becoming more socially confident. The commitment you make to yourself each day to take action will always be what separates you from everybody else.

The ability to act is what separates people. Action moves mountains! If you want to go anywhere in life, if you want your life to change in any way shape or form you are going to have to sit up and take action. Make a plan of what you need to do and then take the necessary steps every day. Even if it is 10 minutes a day, it will always be better than doing nothing.

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
-Joe Sabah

In 6 months time how on earth do you expect your life to be different if you aren’t doing anything about it right now? ~Here’s a newsflash, if you aren’t taking action today, tomorrow or the next day to work towards your goals then guess what? You and your life will be exactly the same in 6 months time as it is now!

You will never have any chance of success (whatever that means to you) if you don’t take action. Taking action is no 100% guarantee of success; just because you are taking an acting class doesn’t mean you will one day win an Oscar. But not doing anything about your life will guarantee nothing improves.

“There are three kinds of people; those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.”
-Nicholas Butler Murray

Remember that your future is created not by what you do tomorrow but by what you do today.

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