Got any habits you’re not happy with? Do they continue to bum you out?
Try this simple strategy: Take each one in hand and see it for what it really represents: a High Value Opportunity! When you can reframe each one in your mind this way, you’ll find them losing power while you gain control. Give it a try!
We all have patterns in our lives – patterns of thinking, feeling and doing. But have you ever noticed that when you find yourself repeating a pattern you don’t care for, it feels like it has a motive power of its own – either forcing itself on you or “sucking you in” like some powerful giant whirlpool?
The good news is that these impressions are false. The reality is that patterns emerge in our lives only because we keep referring to and running them much like football plays from a playbook. In fact it’s our current energies that actually fuel every pattern we find ourselves “stuck” in. A hard truth? Perhaps. But we run them, they simply cannot run us.
So…where’s the good news again? Right here: no matter how powerful our bad patterns may seem, we always have the option of replacing them with better ones!
Here are two critical pieces of information you need to remember about patterns: First, patterns are constructs of your past, so they have no power to automatically influence your future unless you choose to return to and run them. And second, you always have the freedom & power to choose which patterns you run, and from which playbook.
Try looking at patterns as opportunities to recalibrate your direction, and keep in mind that they can never exist without your permission. They don’t rule – YOU do.
Control is about a lot more than simply being able to make a choice. Control is about being able to choose the currency with which you will pay for that choice.
Is there a significant difference between intention and drive? Of course!
Intention is a sign that points you in the right direction, but Drive is the engine that will get you where you want to be.
Use ’em both wisely to get where you want to go, and maybe even become what you want to be.
Doing something that you don’t particularly care about now so that you can experience something you do care very much about in the future.
Need some ideas for your New Year’s Resolutions? How about…
Strive to become a vital, wealthy, self-made individual who lives an interesting, dynamic, and engaging life, cultivated through enthusiastically principled living, gratifying personal achievements, potent self-awareness, and building a better world one individual at a time.
Enjoy living your best!
Looking to find the heroic in you?
You can… and it is worth the effort.
Live your best!