Following on from my last post about finding out what I can do today, right now, and continue to do to start changing for the better I came across these;

1) Where do you start with your own personal development

2) 7 effective habits for positive life change which are;

  • Wake up earlier
  • meditate regular
  • Cut sugar from your diet
  • Take part in some form of exercise
  • get out of your comfort zone at least once a day
  • be grateful and make note of it
  • ( the last one is using the sites entrainment products)

So I now have six things I can work with straight away while  looking at the 3 development areas spiritual/emotional, physical and mental. I bought a notebook yesterday (as suggested in the 1st article.  pic below!!)  What I did was write on the 1st page ; “I love living. I have a great time with my life and I want to share it” as this was the statement that started me out on this journey. Then on the a new page I wrote today’s date: 9th April 2010 and underneath I wrote the heading;

Gratitude: things to be grateful for:My Notebook

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Then heading;

Meditation:

I will sit for 5 mins and meditate this morning

Then Heading:

Action list: Things to take action on today at least 1 challenging me and taking me out of my ‘Comfort Zone’.

  • Go for a walk ( example)
  • write my blog (example)
  • Eat a healthy meal (example)
  • Call my brother, which I have been avoiding for months.

Then heading;

Belief statement;

“I Love living. I have a great life and I want to share it.”

The Will Smith video that started this journey talks about the first step is that, before anybody else in the world believes it, is that YOU have to believe it. I think writing it down will help me to believe.

Finally, I wrote this first thing this morning (which in my case was 10:00am).I replaced reading the morning newspaper with writing in the notebook while having my tea and toast. When I  finished writing I sat for the 5 mins meditation. I just sat with my eyes closed and reflected on the gratitude list I had written. I then was ready to do the things on my action list for the day. Here is what it looked like;

At 1st I did find the gratitude list difficult but I was trying too hard. I just needed to think of simple things like the food in front of me.

The idea is to now continue this practice for at least 21 days and keep changing for the better…

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