To Get More Out Of Life You’ve Got To Change Your Life!
Most of us want more out of life. I don’t mean that you’re unhappy with what you have. In fact, the secret to happiness is already having what you want. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t want to scale higher heights of happiness because there is no standing still in life.
And, then, of course, there are those who are desperately unhappy with their situation – the majority of people claim to be unhappy in their job, a frightening number of people worry about their finances and then there are people who are just downright unhappy with who they are.
However, you will get precious little out of life by wanting or by being dissatisfied with what you think you currently have or have not. The one thing that is stopping you getting something different out of life is – and this is kind of obvious – that you tend to do everything the same. Keep doing the same things and nothing’s ever going to change. If you want change in your life, you’re going to have to do actually change your life!
What are you to do? Like all great journeys, changing your life starts with the first step. A small step will suffice because you’re going to have to gradually recondition your mind – to get yourself used to the idea that, in every single thing that you do in life, you have a choice to do something new, something different. One of the most powerful exercises that I offer to my personal development clients is that they use the very routine that has them stuck in their rut to dismantle the habitual, repetitive patterns of behaviour that have so constrained them, their view of life and the boundless possibilities that life holds for them.
I offer the same powerful yet simple tip to you. Break routine by using your routine. Each morning, you will find yourself with a long list of little chores that you’ve done in a routine way all of your adult life. However, if you do something as simple as brushing your teeth with the hand that you don’t normally use, you will achieve two, potentially life-changing, milestones. Firstly, you will have awoken yourself to the obvious truth that, in every single thing that you do in your life, you have a choice. This awareness will enable you break every single destructive habit that has been holding you back from the life that you really want. Secondly, by virtue of the fact that you will be brushing your teeth differently, you’ll have to pay more attention to the task. Highly successful people call this ‘focus’. Focus just means paying attention – not to what you want out of life, but to what you’re doing right now.
Your life is lived in moments – every moment that you pay attention develops your ability to be fully focused, fully aware of what needs to be done when the big decisions in life call for real action – not the routine reaction of the normal doomed-to-failure mind.
