Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Tips on How to Change Your Life and Achieve Your Dreams

By Michael D. Nolting


What do you think about your life? Do you believe that, because of other people or unfavorable circumstances, you're not living the life you'd like to? If you believe that a dream is just a dream and it never will come true, you are wrong. You're just letting your life pass you by without even trying to give it a meaning. Finally, why are you living for? We learn and acquire habits during all our life.

Go through your closets and discard clothing you have not worn in the past year - it might not even fit you now. Consider how many shoes a person really needs. Most people do not really need more than three or four pairs of shoes. Discard that which you do not need and make room for something else - you'll feel better if you do.Change can be good.Similarly, go through your refrigerator. When's the last time you cleaned that out? Do you really need to keep that near empty bottle of Soy sauce considering you haven't eaten Chinese food in more than a year? Toss it out! Make room in your refrigerator; make room in your life. You will feel better afterwards.

Among all the actions we perform on a daily basis, good habits are those having favorable influence on our lives, while bad habits are the actions resulting in negative outcomes for us and for people close to us as well. Bad habits are usually called addictions.But let me make a distinction here. Letting addictions aside, we can further split all our daily habits in habits which add in our personal development and habits which are just wasting our time.Think a little bit of everything you do daily. What are you doing every morning, then during the time you spend at the office, and when you're back home in the evening?

Now ask yourself: will your life be different if you change any of your daily actions? If, instead of watching TV for two hours in the evening you read a book or learn something new on a subject that interest you, will anything change in your life? Or, if every morning you work out for a half an hour, will anything be different?

Have you ever thought about changing something in your life such as starting a new career, learning a foreign language or getting more fit? Maybe you have even attempted to do new things or change old behavior patterns, but your enthusiasm didn't last too long. And you gave up.It happened because habits are actions we make unconsciously. We just feel like we need to do a certain thing without asking ourselves why we have to or what is in it for us.

Exercise will help you think more clearly and you will begin to have quality sleep and feel rested when you awake each day. A healthy body will help you have a healthy mind.Read more non-fiction books.Expand your horizons and knowledge by learning about new things. What are you interested in? Traveling? Gardening? Computers? Childcare? Take the time to curl up with a good book (or Kindle reader) learn, explore and grow mentally, too.Read books about positive mindsets, too. Browse the Self-Improvement section of Bookstores.Take stock of your life.

In most cases, this process takes place without us being aware of.Now the question is: can we make consciously changes in our daily habits? How can we deliberately change our habits and overcome their resistance? Changes in our daily habits are not only possible, but also advisable to be done when we decide to make bigger changes in our lives.We firstly need to evaluate all the actions we are doing during the day, think about and decide which ones are good to be kept or even extended and which need to be replaced with better ones.

Secondly, through a step by step process, we are going to start making the desired changes.It is very important to not overdue. Don't start with more than one habit and, at the beginning, my advice is to perform the new action for short time spans, then increase the time gradually. Once you have the first habit installed (it will probably take 1-2 months), introduce a new one. Making small steps every day is the best way to succeed.

A tip for interpreting signals - sometimes the meaning of a signal or signals is not immediately clear. That is fine, as sometimes it takes time and sometimes it takes multiple signals to form a complete picture of where/why/how you are being guided. Be patient and enjoy the journey.And, in addition, if you are not clear about the signals you are getting, or how to interpret them, you have several very simple options. You can connect with us in the Follow The Signals community to share, question, brainstorm, seek help and to network to learn more about interpreting signals and of course... you can simply ask The Universe for clearer signals! Remember, The Universe is acting in reaction to your energy and what you ask for, ask for clearer signals... and you'll receive clearer signals.How do I follow the signals? Signals are not going to change your life for you. YOU are going to change your life.Signals are not going to turn your dreams into reality. YOU are going to turn your dreams into reality.Whatever you want in your life, be it changing something you don't like into something you do like, or changing something that is already awesome into... well... awesome-er, the ACTION to achieve your goals and dreams all comes from you.The Universe is generally not going to deliver your exact outcome to your front door. It delivers you signals to enable you to help yourself. Life is not about having things handed to us on a silver platter all of the time, it's about the joy of the journey, and the challenge of learning and expanding ourselves as we go about creating lives we love.The signals are coming to you every day to guide you forward. All you need to do is let go of any concern or worry you have, any negative vibration, and trust that the signals you are receiving are guiding you in a positive direction.When signals arrive, they can prompt you to think in a different way, to act in a different way, to feel a different way, to move in a certain direction, to ask new questions, to take new actions. They open up your eyes, and your mind, and this allows you to move forward powerfully towards your goals and dreams. Even tiny baby-steps forward, tiny changes in thinking, tiny movements towards your goals and dreams incrementally all add up to major leaps forward.Personal Ownership & Accountability.The Universe is sending you signals every day, and those signals are there to support and guide you. Please note this distinction - the signals are not telling you what you must do. We do not surrender our decisions, outcomes and our path to signals. We instead embrace signals as a tool to aid us as we go about creating lives we love and turning our dreams into reality.Signals are not responsible for your happiness, or for the way in which you create a life you love, and turn your goals or dreams into reality. You are responsible, and if you receive a signal and follow it, you must fully own your choice and your free will and right to choose that path or action.We must not surrender up our destiny or success to The Universe, thinking that we are puppets in a play. This is not how life works and this is not what The Universe wants from us. Your life is not pre-determined. Your beliefs, thoughts and feelings create your outcomes and every moment of your life you have a choice to believe, think and feel whatever you choose. What you believe is possible, what you focus on (your goals and dreams) and how you choose to act (by following signals or otherwise) is within your control.




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