Summer: The Essence of Change

ThomasMcGregor

If you’ve noticed, we are officially engaged in the midst of the summer madness. Swimming, snow cones, and weekend barbecuing have taken hold throughout the country, taking advantage of the warm summer sun. I want you to imagine yourself at your favorite summer destination. Is it the beach? It it abroad? Are you with your family? Let the sun hit your face, relaxing your muscles. Your breathing is deep and thankful for what you have been given. Are you there? Enjoy this escape…

If you’ve noticed, we are officially engaged in the midst of the summer madness. Swimming, snow cones, and weekend barbecuing have taken hold throughout the country, taking advantage of the warm summer sun. I want you to imagine yourself at your favorite summer destination. Is it the beach? It it abroad? Are you with your family? Let the sun hit your face, relaxing your muscles. Your breathing is deep and thankful for what you have been given. Are you there? Enjoy this escape…

 

This is the essence of change. Over the summer we take time out of our busy lives to spend it with family and friends. If you notice, we take special care in arranging events and situations that enable us to feel happy and well. We make special shifts in our schedules that enable us to place ourselves and other people in situations that our, essentially, out of our normal comfort zone. You see, even if we don’t particularly like our day-to-day happenings we have settled into a lifestyle that is predictable. Within this predictability we find a sense of comfort in the known. When we make changes, even if they are ones we’ve made before, they take us out of our normal predictable lifestyle. According to recent research, it takes the average adult to establish a new habit within 21 days. What this means is that within the 50 week period that the average adult spends working before vacation each year, they have solidified their habits 14 times. Then, when vacation is taken, it’s only for a 2 week period. This is not long enough to establish long term habit forms in the “relaxation” stage.

We can change, we just need a road map. We need a smart purpose that constantly reminds us why and how to change our life into what we want. The word “smart” is an acronym for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic  and Timely and it refers to the criteria to be used when setting goals. This concept can also be used to bring a certain amounts of order to your personal life as well so that you can fulfill varied responsibilities without getting swamped by them.

There are THREE steps to applying change to your life immediately:

 

One: Decided that you are done! Done with the old you, the old way of living. Make this your chief operating purpose(COP). Make the concise choice that the old you is in the past and you are making a change right now and every day forward. You want to revisit this feeling every time you get a chance. Make a focused dedicated commitment to living an absolutely amazing life — after all, you deserve it.

 

Two: Decide exactly what you want in the are of life that you want to change. We are nieve to assume that there isn’t information for use to grab from to achieve this change. Our world is filled with information outlets, people, and internet resources. Do you want to slim down? Make that the ultimate goal, right now, to achieve. Keep the image in your head of exactly what you will look like, feel like, and be like. Encompass everything associated with the state that you want to be in.

 

Three: Act. Take the action that is needed to find the information that will make this change a reality. This action could be taking a step towards your fridge to empty it out. You want to eliminate everything that doesn’t fit with that image you have held in your mind of what you want as the end result. Contrastically, you want to welcome everything that applies directly to the achieving of the change.

 

You must keep in mind that this is possible. You can do anything. Scientists, to date, have no conclusive evidence of what we are capable of. There is an infinite amount of potential waiting for you every moment. All you have to do is reach out and grab it.

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