Placing a plan behind your dreams..

Have you ever sat down and thought 'What If'. 

It's interesting how so many people don't like practicing things:  The brain doesnt seem to like practice or limitations which is why so many of us give up on so many of the things we intend to do.  More increasingly if something doesnt provide quick gratification we can struggle to see the value in it or stick with it.

Giving up Smoking
Going to the gym
Learning a new language
Saving/Investing
Eating more healthily

Practice invites you to embrace failure and that doesn't feel great so we generally feel like giving up or actually do give up.

Anything worth doing is worth running the risk of failing at.

It's interesting that most of us will regularly have 'What If'  thoughts....      We can imagine a future where change has already taken place but doing the hard work to bring about that change almost always requires us to practice something.

Have you ever had an idea for an invention or a business or something.   For whatever reason you decided not to do anything about your idea, or maybe you didn't know where to start.   Years or sometimes months later you find out that someone else has developed the very thing you were thinking about.   How come they got to do it and you didn't?

Did you know the average 17 year old has heard the words 'NO YOU CAN'T' over 150,000 times!    The words YES YOU CAN are heard on average less than 8,000 times.   

Througout our lives we are conditioned to be boxed in by limitations we can only see possibilities has something that is somehow abstract to us.

Negative thinking is learnt behaviour......
Have you ever heard a toddler talking negatively?   At what point in life do we start being negative?

When we think negatively we create neuropathways in our brain.   This isn't the only way that neuropathways are created.  But it's one of the most dangerous ways.    Our brain prefers to be in a place of comfortable thinking - that's why these things call neuropathways exist.    They are generally created, physically carved out by habbitual behaviour.   If we attempt to do anything that is outside of our existing neuropathways (habbits of thinking or behaviour) our brain attempts to do whatever it can
to get us back to a palce where we feel comfortable again.    That's why it's harder to start a new good habbit or break a bad one.

My challenge to you is to make yourself accountable to someone for bringing about change in your own personal life.   If you dont know how to get started use this as a guide.

Look at the following areas of your Life:

Work
Relationships
Family
Living Enviroment
Lifestyle

Think about what you would like each of these areas to look like.
Think about what is currently stopping you from achieving/having what you want.
What beliefs have you accepted in order for these limitations to be in place.
What do you need to believe in order to allow yourself to see oppotunites rather than limits.

If you've been able to follow these steps you've already made a great achievement.    What happens next is up to you.  Rather than keeping your answers to yourself why not disucss your answers with someone you trust and ask that person to check in with you every now and again to find out how your progressing in changing your 'What If's'  into realities.

Thanks for reading this, please let me know your thoughts (good or bad)
Jools