Want a ray of sunshine in your life.Changing a few settings can add a bit of spark to your life.Moving to a new town, starting a new career, losing weight after yo-yo dieting over the past 15 years, can add spark to life. Change is like an adventure.
Can you really transform your life in six months? Is it a distant fantasy? Not as far away as you think. But if you do want to shift your life for the better over the next six months, all you have to do is refine the way you pursue it. Are you ready? Here’s your friendly guide to changing your life in six months:
1- Defining Your Dreams:
You can even write down the goals and dreams you have for yourself. Science says that, help yourself by being descriptive and specific about what you want to do and keep it close so you’ll be able to revisit it when you start to lose focus, as you will. The secret is to stay focused on your dreams, your various goals, as often as you can.
You don’t have to hold out for a pen and paper if they aren’t immediately available to you. Instead, scribble what you want onto whatever is accessible — your device. Think about that big glittery goal you’ve been fantasising about — that would be your star.
Dreaming of becoming the world’s strongest? Start with three key steps:
Workout daily
Eat wholesome foods
Team up with a trainer
Sure, these might sound daunting, but let’s simplify them. For your daily workouts, consider:
Finding a welcoming gym nearby
Starting with 10 crunches a day
Next, articulate them as a series of tiny steps: attainable goals that you can pursue starting today. This makes them fresh and approachable, and your dreams begin to feel real.
2. Starting Small, Yet Forgiving:
This time it will be different. Maybe you will resolve to succeed impeccably, but then you must allow for mistakes on your journey. If you have felt completionist guilt at a New Year’s resolution, you will know that self-criticism simply leads to burnout.
Instead, be as kind with yourself as you would with a good friend. Set that alarm for a reasonable time (7.50 am?) and start putting things in motion. Celebrate your small daily successes — all those micro shifts will add up.
3. Celebrating Your Progress:
It’s party time! Taking a moment to acknowledge your accomplishments along the road helps you appreciate the improvements you’re making. You realise your daily efforts are actually having an effect — slowly but surely, you’ve been changing. And if you hit a pot-hole, no worries — it’s part of the process.
Keeping in mind that change is all about enjoyment, kindness and celebrating each step, let’s just see where these six delightful months can take us.