A Few Words That Will Change Your Life

Have you ever come across anyone who is 100% happy with their lot in life to the extent that they don’t want to change a single thing. Of course, there’s loads of surveys and research that confirm that most people express unhappiness in their work, their money situation, their weight problem, their fitness or the quality of their personal lives – or every single one of the above!! Basically, normal people are normally dissatisfied. Little wonder that most people find my self help website by Googling Change Your Life.

But it’s not that easy to change your life – is it? Because most of us, whilst being dissatisfied are also afraid of change. So, if this sounds like you, you’re kinda stuck between a rock and a hard place! The problem is, first of all, that people are afraid of the unknown – even if it’s the great unknown that they dream of! And, through painful experience, they also know that, when they’ve attempted major changes in the past, they’ve failed to stick to their guns.

I’m sitting writing this post on February 15th – and by now, research confirms, over 90% of people will have given up on their New Year’s Resolutions! And there’s just so many studies that prove just how hard we normal people find it to change. Did you know, for example, that the average membership of a gym is three months – and in those three months the average new recruit visits, on average twice! Not going to get fit that way!

Now, I haven’t set out to make you even more disillusioned or to tell you that you cannot change your life. I make my living from helping my clients change their lives. They all ask me how I took such a huge risk when I moved from my native Ireland – with my wife and three teenage children – to the French Alps. They always get the same response – it was the obvious move to make because so many small things had changed in the lead up to what other people perceive as a major change. It wasn’t, it was simply the logical next step.

You see, you change your life by changing little things. That way, your fearful mind – and the normal mind simply loves things to stay the way they were when you were a child – becomes familiar with change. Little by little you completely deconstruct all the things that you want to change about your life and you become so used to change that the things that you want to happen simply happen as that logical next step.

OK, that sounds all very well but how will you start? Start really small – like eat something different for breakfast this morning – or actually have breakfast! Take a different train or bus. Talk to a stranger. Swap the knife and fork in your hands at your next meal. Mix it up – because your mind’s mixed up already – and out of that mix up will come the clarity of purpose you’ve always been looking for.

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