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How Can I Change My Life?

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How Can I Change My Life?

One of the things I notice when I’m asked “how can I change my life?” is that the person asking is often really resistant to being told that they need to be taking action. They are adamant that they want to achieve their goal and it’s the most important thing to them right now, but taking sustained action doesn’t fit in with their day-to-day lives.

People are often dismissive of attempts to encourage or cajole them into action. Plus, I can usually visibly see them digging their figurative heels in to do it their own way, and only that way.

People appear to be defensive of their actions and have a long list of reasons why they can’t do the things I suggest.

Fighting For Your Limitations

There’s a great quote which refers to how we fight for our perceived limitations.

If you fight for your limitations, you get to keep them.

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How To Make Yourself Do Something Even When You Don’t Want To

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How To Make Yourself Do Something Even When You Don’t Want To

This is a backwards post.  It’s also a raw and honest post that lets you into the weird workings of my brain on an off day.

But, to make the post at least sort of sensible, and, hopefully useful too, the lessons are listed first.  You’ll see why when you start reading!

(You can also choose to ignore the Case Study and still have a useful and short list of lessons!) [Read more…] about How To Make Yourself Do Something Even When You Don’t Want To

How To Create A Useful To Do List

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How To Create A Useful To Do List

Do you keep a daily list of To Dos? Most people do, me included. And, like most people, my list is fairly higgledy-piggledy at the offset, when I just do a physical download of all the things that are cluttering up my head.

Try holding yourself accountable to yourself. If you had to give yourself a daily, weekly, or monthly report, would you be proud to talk about what you had done, or would you need to be prettying up things, bullshitting, or lying to keep your job?”
― Loren Weisman

My list contains a mix of goal actions, household chores, admin type tasks, self-care and fun activities. It’s probably quite similar to most peoples’ lists.

But where do you go from there? Do you sort or prioritise your list, making sure that you are at least progressing the things that will improve your life in the future, if not immediately?

And how do you know when you’ve had a productive day? Is it just based on the number of tasks you’ve managed to cross off? If that’s it, then you’re very likely feeling a little drained and fed up of the ‘same-old-same-old’ routine of your life. [Read more…] about How To Create A Useful To Do List

How To Get Your Life Together

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How To Get Your Life Together

Do you often moan to yourself or others that you need to get your life together? You feel like you’re in a constant state of overwhelm, you feel disorganised, turning up late for meetings or missing deadlines and important personal dates?

Your family have long since given up on the idea that you’ll be ready on time and you often seem to run out of milk!

Added to that, the laundry has taken on a life of its own and there are piles of paperwork stuffed in draws that have yet to be opened!

And that wouldn’t be so bad if you felt on top of things at work, but your disorganised ways have also flooded into your workspace and you have unfinished projects and looming deadlines that are threatening to push you over the edge!

Argh!! Stop the merrygoround! I want to get off! [Read more…] about How To Get Your Life Together

7 Days To Success

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7 Days To Success

Have you got an impending deadline that you’re struggling to meet? A job that needs doing that you just can’t muster the motivation to get done? Or maybe it’s something that has no deadline and you want to do it, but you just don’t know where to start or what to do?

These are all circumstances that respond well to implementing a 7 Days to Success plan! The idea is to keep things as simple as possible so as not to feel overwhelmed with the task, but at the same time, having a fairly structured plan that will allow the work to proceed and progress across the 7 days.

The great thing is that it doesn’t matter what day of the week it is now, you can just get started by calling this “Day 1” and getting into action!

In fact, don’t fall into the trap of thinking “I’ll start on Monday”, which, as we know is generally the worst day of the week for most people! Instead, start now and Monday will just be part of the plan rather than the day that’s looming as The-Day-We-Must-Get-Started!

So let’s not waste any time, let’s get into the plan! [Read more…] about 7 Days To Success

How To Enjoy Your Life

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How To Enjoy Your Life

As I approach this latest blog post and look at the subject of how to enjoy your life, I purposefully want to make it actionable. I truly believe that in order to enjoy your life, you have to actively engage the process and not be passive.

That’s not to say you can’t pursue ‘passive’ activities, like watching tv or playing video games, but, that you have consciously taken the time to know that these are activities that are enjoyable to you, rather than passive activities which mask discontentment.

But, to enjoy life, there’s much more to it than just filling it with the pleasurable things you enjoy. After all, we all know that anything taken to the extreme eventually loses its shine, although I’ve never found this to be true about eating chocolate! [Read more…] about How To Enjoy Your Life