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Change Your Mind, Change Your Life

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Posted by Steve Crenshaw on Feb 17, 2010 in Personal Growth | 5220 commentsChange+Your+Mind%2C+Change+Your+Life2010-02-17+21%3A27%3A30Steve+Crenshaw

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If you are not satisfied with your current physical, monetary, spiritual, or any other situation the good news is you can change all aspects of your life just by changing the way you think. At the first of every year we hear that we must set goals to accomplish various tasks with in the next year. As you already know, most people who start these programs will stop within the first month – or two at most.

Why?

From what I have seen as a personal coach the most common reason is, the person has not come to a full understanding of how to change what they want to change. Most people have clouded their thinking with the thoughts of others so they are trying to accomplish a goal put there by someone else. The good news is that this can be fixed in four easy steps.

1) Decide what you really want. That sounds simplistic but in reality this is the main reason for stopping before reaching the goal. Do you really honestly want to accomplish this goal? If you do why do you want to? Is this for your own good or for the benefit of someone else? Are you doing this to fit into society? Continue to work down to find what the real reason is and you will find what the real goal is.

2) Once you have decided what it is you really want write it down. Once you see it on paper it becomes more realistic to you and you can get your mind around it better. Now rewrite it in the first person present tense form such as: I have x, I pray x times daily, I weigh x pounds. Once you have it in the first person present tense your mind can begin to accept it. Read it at least 6 times per day. This will solidify the way you think. Once your mind accepts the goal as fact, it will begin to change and help you accomplish that goal.

Hint: Take a favorite proverb and do this with it.

3) Set a realistic time frame to accomplish the goal. If you are broke with no job finding a new job may take a month or two. If you are over weight and it took twenty years to get here don’t try to get rid of it in six months. A realistic time frame is crucial in the achieving the goals you set

4) Make better choices. Turn off the T.V. and read good books. Start reading books and magazines that lift you up not tear you down. Start cooking at home instead of dining out. Write a letter instead of using email. This step will be the most helpful part of the process.

You can change any aspect of your life if you want to. If you just learn to change your thought process, you can transform yourself a little each day.