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Creating lasting change is something many of us find difficult. If it was easy, none of us would ever fail to lose weight, or keep smoking despite wanting to give it up, nor would we continue to have disastrous relationships, to work too hard, or continue to make New Year’s resolutions and then fail to keep them.
How often have you decided you need to do something to change your life?
To go on a diet, meet more people, give up listening to that negative voice in your head which is constantly nagging or cut down on your work commitments.
Yet how often do you find yourself opening the biscuit barrel or booking another work appointment almost immediately?
Having eaten the biscuit or had another cigarette after making the decision to give up and rather than stop at one found yourself thinking I’ve broken my resolution so I might as well have another…….?
Have you ever wondered why it is that so many people make new year’s resolutions and by the second week of January they already a distant memory.
Creating lasting change is so much easier if you stick to the principles outlined below.
1) Be clear about what you want to change and why?
Understand what is going well in your life. What is it you want more of?
What is it you hate about your life and want you want to change?
What difference would the change make to your life if you achieved it?
What is the cost to the quality of your life if you don’t?
The clearer you are the easier it will be to plan the change but even more important is the why!
Is it your why? Or are you trying to please other people
The most dramatic changes happen when “shoulds” and “musts” become I choose to do this because it is really important to me!.
2) Believe it is possible to make the change.
Think about other examples within your life when you have succeeded in changing something.
Many of the changes seemed impossible – yet you did it. You have absolute evidence that you are capable.
If you can succeed in one area then there is nothing to stop you achieving in another other than your belief that it is possible.
3) Set clear, specific goals.
The more specific you are about what it is you want to change the easier it is to plan how to do it and to measure your success once you have achieved it.
It is really common to over- estimate what we can do in a day or a week but under-estimate what we can do over a longer period of time.
That is particularly true of losing weight.
4) Imagine Your Success is already a reality.
Imagine yourself at a time in the future when you have succeeded in making the change.
See the outcomes of your success.
If you want to loose weight see the slim and healthy you enjoying trying on a whole new wardrobe.
Enjoy feeling healthy, full of energy and feeling good about yourself.
See the admiring glances as you walk down the road.
Think about what difference the change is making to your life?
How do you feel about the fact you have succeeded?
As you visualize it (at night just before you go to sleep is a great time to do this) use each of your senses to create as detailed experience as you can.
Research had shown that people who create a sense of success while they are working towards it actually succeed much more easily.
It is now regularly used by top sportsmen and women, by performers and top business people. If it works for them why not give yourself the same opportunity.
Remember nothing succeeds like success. Use your past and present success to help you know...