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Hello my friend,You have made the first step to changing your life. The next step is reading these ten things that I believe will get you on the path to changing your life forever.Aristotle said We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act but a habit Today you begin to change habits and behaviors that have caused you to be stuck and frustrated with yourself and your life.Enjoy these tips and allow change to really happen for your life. To continue to help you along your path I will be sending you emails, video encouraging words, a mid week boost called REFUEL along with several other helpful aids. To see more now go to www.wellchurchinc.com and begin to see change in your life, your marriage and your family.I look forward to watching you have the best life you have ever had!! Many blessingsPastor Charles Johnsonwww.wellchurchinc.com 1. Change your prioritiesThis is important if you want to live a balanced, fulfilling life. Many people are successful in their career but dont have good relationships with their spouse or family because of wrong priorities. They put things like money and reputation above their relationships. Dont let it happen to you. You should put relationships as your top priority.Another important point is to put your passion above money. When you encounter a situation in your life where you must choose between money and passion, choose passion. Having a fulfilling life is more important than having a lot of money.Action list:Make (not find) time for your loved ones. Allocate certain blocks of time for your loved ones and defend them ruthlessly. Find the intersection between what matter to you and your personal strengths. You may want to make one list for each and find similar items in both lists. These are your passions you should focus on. Then make time for them. Aim to develop your competences so that you can provide value to others.2. Change your self-talkYour self-talk has significant influence in your life. When you say that something is bad, you will either consciously or not develop a negative attitude toward it. Look at these statements:I hate doing this. Im not creative. The situation is too difficult to solve.Can you feel how such statements influence your attitude? You wont have positive, winning attitude with this kind of self-talk. The opposite is also true. When you say that something is good, you will develop a positive attitude toward it. Compare the previous statements with these:I love it! Im creative and talented. The situation is challenging and fun to solve.Can you feel the difference?Action listWatch your mind closely. What does it say about something or someone? Is it negative? If the answer is yes, find a different angle and craft a positive statement in your mind. Speak out the positive statement in your mind, Next time when you encounter the negative self-talk again, quickly replace it with the positive one.3. Change your motivationMotivation is the reason why we do things. It gives us the power to move and work. You can significantly change the way you do things simply by changing your motivation.I like to see motivation through Maslows hierarchy of needs. There are eight levels of needs there (from the lowest to the highest): physical,security, belonging, esteem, learning, aesthetic, self-actualization, and transcendence. Our motivation is always to meet one or more of these needs. The way to change your motivation is to upgrade your motivation to higher levels in the hierarchy. For example, if your motivation to work is money (which resides in either physical or esteem level), you can upgrade it to helping others (transcendencelevel).Action listRead Maslows hierarchy of needs. Find at what level your motivation currently is. Look at higher levels and for each of them imagine how it will be like to work with that motivation. Take one or two that resonate with you and set them as your new motivation. Replace your self-talk. If previously you say to yourself I do this because I want to (low-level motivation), change it to I do this because I want to (higher-level motivation). For example, replace I do this because I want to earn money with I do this because I want to help people. Act as if you already internalize your new motivation. Continuing the example in previous point, act as if you genuinely want to help others.4. Change your habitsIs there any bad habit that holds you back? If the answer is yes, then you should break the bad habit and replace it with a good one. For instance, perhaps you have the habit of rising late. But since many people testify that early morning the most productive time that means that you lose the most productive time of the day. You can get better results simply by replacing the old habit with a new habit of rising early.Action listTake one new habit you want to build and do it every day for at least 30 days without fail. Find people to share your progress with. Accountability will make it much easier for you to adopt the new habit. Reward yourself along the way. It will motivate you to move forward.5. Change your friendsChanging your friends doesnt mean discarding your current friends. No, what I mean here is you should change the friendswho influence you or, in other words, your close friends. Find close friends who can encourage, equip, and challenge you to move to the next level. If your friends currently do not meet this criterion, find new friends who do. Interact with them and you are more likely to come out as champions in life. Remember, winners breed winners.Action listJoin a professional organization in your field. Join a good social organization (for example, a church) to meet positive people in your area. Join an online forum in your field or a field you are interested in.6. Change your commitmentsYou may have commitments in your life that dont add value to your life. Perhaps you take too many roles or responsibilities. Most likely, some of them just take your resources away from doing the most rewarding ones. You should change your commitments in such a way that you get the most out of your time.Action listList your roles and sort them from the most rewarding one to the least. Look at the least rewarding roles and ask yourself: Can I eliminate this? If the answer is no, ask the second question: How can I delegate this? For the remaining roles, list your responsibilities for each role, and again, sort them from the most rewarding one to the least. For each responsibility, ask the two questions again.7. Change your inputsYour inputs determine your outputs. There is no way you can get high-quality outputs if you feed your mind with low-quality inputs. So watch your inputs carefully. What programs do you watch on TV? What books, magazines, or blogs do you read? Discard the low-quality inputs and replace them with high-quality ones.Action listTurn off your TV (except for a few special programs). Assess the value you get from each input stream (like blogs, books, and magazines) regularly. Does it give you enough value? If the answer is no, then discard it. Visit Recommended for You page at Amazon. The page gives book recommendations that are tailored to your preferences. You will get better recommendations if you actively rate books you have read. Read classic books. These books have passed the test of time.8. Change your methodsYou may have done something for years that you forget there are new, more efficient methods to do it. For example, can you imagine writing a document with a typing machine while everyone has used computer?Its essential to monitor your field continuously and adopt new methods that are available. Of course, you should be careful not to try every method. Take only the proven ones.Action listVisit these Amazon pages regularly to check if there are relevant books you can read: Bestsellers in Books New York Times Best Sellers Hot New Releases in Books Bestsellers in your field (here is example for business and investing) New books in your field (here is example for business and investing)Subscribe to blogs in your field. One way to find them is through Technoratis Blog Directory.9. Change your intensityPerhaps you do not work intense enough these days. If you want to produce more in a given period of time, you need to increase your work intensity. You should increase your focus and energy in doing your tasks. Learn to work intensely for certain period of time and then take true rest before starting another session of intense work.Action listWhen you are about to work, turn off your cell phone (or at least put it to silent mode). Close all unnecessary windows in your computer. Set a target duration to work and dont stop before time is up.10. Exercise. People whove been hearing me harp on about exercise might roll their eyes. Sure, exercise is healthy and all that, but how exactly is it life changing? Im glad you asked:It makes you feel better about yourself, and more confident. That leads to better success with other positive changes. It reinforces the positive thinking habit you need to think positive in order to sustain exercise. It relieves stress and gives you time to think this leads to better mental well-being in your life overall. It helps with creativity. Dont ask me to prove it, except to say that my best ideas and brainstorming sessions come from when I exercise.
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