Changing your life does not always mean that you stop doing certain things. It may mean that you start doing certain other things. It may mean moving your time, energy and focus away from all the things you should not be doing and placing them on the things you should be doing. Rather than beating yourself up for what you are not doing, appreciate and celebrate the things that you are doing. When you shift your focus away from what you do not want, you can create a vision for what you do.
Changing your life means learning a new way to be. Learning occurs in a loving and supportive environment. When you are hostile toward yourself, frustrated or angry with yourself, it will be difficult for you to learn. You will set expectations for yourself that you cannot live up to. How can you be for yourself if you are against yourself? Learning occurs best when there is an attitude and an environment of acceptance. When you judge the mistakes you make as "bad," you will be resistant to learning the lesson. If you were to be completely honest, you would admit that you don't want to be wrong! Being wrong makes you feel ashamed of yourself.
What you really want to do is nurture the attitude that you are open to learning more about yourself. Accepting more about yourself. This is the information that will inspire you to do something new. Rather than creating an internally hostile environment by focusing on what you must stop doing, focus on what you want to do. Choose a new course of action that will change the way you experience yourself.
Until today, you may not have recognized the things you do to yourself that make it hard for you to do anything different. Just for today, lighten up! Don't fight with yourself! Focus on what you do, can do, choose to do, are ready to do.
Today I am making a shift in the way I focus on my activities!
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