When it comes to your life today, are you living your
purpose? Are you being true to yourself and your values? Are you courageously
going after our unfulfilled goals and dreams? Are you growing and learning? Are
you finding balance and doing the things that matter to us? Are you facing your
fears and building empowering beliefs that serve us? Are you living up to your
fullest potential? Are you passionate to get out of bed each morning?
Enjoy it, and be true to you. Your life is a gift. You
being here is a miracle. Every day is a fresh start. You matter. You are
irreplaceable and unique. You are strong. You are gifted. No one will give you
permission to change your life, go after what you want, shine your light, or be
happy. You have to give yourself permission.
You
are surrounded by change and it is the one thing that has the most dramatic
impact on your life. Change has the ability to catch up with you at some point
in your life. There is no avoiding it because it will find you, challenge you,
and force you to reconsider how you live your life.
Change
can come into your life as a result of a crisis, as a result of choice or by
chance. In either situation we are all faced with having to make a choice – do
we make the change or not? I believe it is always better to make changes in
your life when you choose to rather than being forced to. How do you change
your life? Here are ten things that you can do to make changes in life for
the good:
Acknowledge
your losses and move on to your success-Remember,
winners aren't people who never fail but people who never quit. It's important
to never let success get to your head or failure to your heart. The secret to
getting ahead is to acknowledge your failures and have the wisdom to apply them
to new opportunities.
Address
the choices you've made in the past and change the choices you'll make in the
future-Life is made up of choices--some you regret, some you're proud
of, some that will hurt us. Everything in your career and your life is a
reflection of a choice you have made. If you want different results, start
making different choices.
Avoid
being a perfectionist. Perfect doesn't exist-Once
you realize perfect doesn't exist, you can ease up on yourself. There's no harm
in being wrong or making mistakes, as long as you're willing to make
corrections. Just be yourself, flaws and all, and let people see the real you.
Each of us is an imperfect human being, aware that we can't push away our
failures and our flaws.
Don't
compare your own life with anyone else's-A big source of
unhappiness is the idea that other people's lives are better or easier than
yours. But when you compare your situation to that of others, you're comparing
your complete reality to their surface. No matter how fantastic, how happy, how
brilliant everything may seem on the outside, you never know what's going on
the inside If you find yourself being jealous of someone, remember that person
has struggled with hardships and insecurities just as you have
Eliminate
the unnecessary and cultivate the essentials-Think
of all the things in your life that are important to you--the essentials--then
eliminate everything else. This system helps you simplify your life and see
what you should focus on. It can work for anything you have in your life,
professional or personal. And just the act of letting things go will help you
to simplify, to focus on what's important, and to build the life you want.
Find
success at the edge of your comfort zone-Regardless of
our hesitation or fear, humans need change to be happy. Try to do something
you've never done every single day. Don't be afraid to try new things and stand
in your discomfort zone. If you want something you've never had, you have to do
something you've never done.
Forgive
those who have hurt you but change who you surround yourself with-You
can improve your life just by changing the people you surround yourself with.
If there are some, who have brought negativity or hurt into your life, accept
that those actions cannot be changed or undone or forgotten--only forgiven.
Take it as a lesson learned and surround yourself with people who support you,
guide you and make you better than you already are.
Nurture
your mind with great thoughts for you will never go higher than you think-What
you think is what you become. And the sad truth is that that most of us are our
own worst enemy allowing our negative thoughts to hold us back. If you load up
on positivity and great thoughts, you can create positive and great things for
yourself. If you want to change and change fast, start by changing how you
think.
Remember
that it's not how many mistakes you've made but what you learn from them that
defines you-Accept that you won't always make the right decisions.
You'll mess up, sometimes badly. But your mistake doesn’t mean you've failed,
only that you're trying and learning in life. If you are not making mistakes it
means you are not trying hard enough. When you learn from them, mistakes have
the power to turn you into something better than you were before.
Speak
up with honesty and stop holding back what you think-People
may believe that honesty won't win you many friends--but even if that were
true, the friends you make with honesty will be the right ones. Honesty is the
cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and the ability to perform
cannot exist.
“We cannot change our past. We cannot change
the fact that people act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The
only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our
attitude.” (Charles R. Swindoll)[i]
[i] Sources used:
·
“10 Things You Can Do Now to Change Your Life
Forever” by Kathryn Sandford
·
“10
Ways to Change Your Life Today”
by Elyse Santilli
·
“How to Immediately Change Your Life for the Better”
By Lolly Daskal
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