If you want to change your life, change your thoughts.
Step 1 – become aware of your thoughts.
Step 2 – make a decision to accept or change them.
Step 3 – make a plan to create new routines in your life that don’t trigger the undesired thoughts. This can be how you get out of bed (get up or snooze the alarm), changing what you do first thing in the morning or just before bed, what amount of time you give to entertainment vs education and growth, what you do on the weekends, or who you choose to hang out with or how you choose to respond to situations.
Step 4 – redirect your focus to your desires in life: goals, dreams, aspirations or simply what you want your life to feel, like and be like. While creating awareness and new routines, it’s important to refill your mind with new desire able outcomes for your life and new ways of looking at your life.
Step 5 – stay disciplined. Even if you feel tired and your body is telling your mind to stay in bed, get up anyways. Even if others are complaining and your unconscious mind wants to join in and complain, walk away or share a perspective of gratitude. Even if you think you want that alcohol or others are drinking alcohol around you, drink water instead.
The discipline is the most important piece after consciousness. The discipline creates the habits and the habits create the freedom from our old undesirable thoughts. When we’re free from our past ways of thinking (limiting beliefs, self doubt, stress, worry, fear, anxiety, etc.) we free up our minds to make changes, take in new information that’ll stick with us, and create new possibilities for our lives.
I don’t share theory. I share what I’m learning & implementing every day because I’ve seen my life continue to transform, inside and out, the more I practice these steps while also not giving a care to what others think of me or how others respond to my choices to change my life in the various ways I have.
I believe we can all change once we develop a Massive Intention To Optimize one or more aspects of our realities.
Our MITO becomes our purpose to initiate these steps and that is what becomes our anchor when motivation runs out or temptation comes present.
Josh P. 💚🧠✌️