Seems like an odd first step doesn't it? The truth is that before you do anything to make your life better you have to be uncomfortable.
To want to improve your life in any way you have to admit that where it's at now isn't where you want to be.
You have acknowledge a gap between where you are and where you'd like to be.
This is the reason most people don't get into personal development and look to make themselves greater.
Simply put, they are comfortable where they are.
Their trusty brains tell them to avoid pain so they are reluctant to admit when things aren't exactly how they want them to be, they settle for a lesser standard of living and in settling, remove the discomfort of wanting more, and in doing so, never take action to make things better.
Pain (or discomfort) is a powerfully motivating force, without which very little can be accomplished.
Most people will only make a decision or attempt to do something new or different in their lives when they get too much pain from their current situations.
Your job if you want to be happier, achieve more, be more confident, make more money is to get absolutely clear that NOT doing those things and NOT having what you want is going to be extremely painful.
Make the pain real in your mind.
Talk about or write down somewhere everything you will miss out on if you don't start doing X differently.
Identify with the things you will feel if you don't make the change you want to make.
How disappointed will you be? How will it feel to lose X? How frustrated will you be if things continue as they are now? Once you are totally clear on why you absolutely MUST do something differently starting right now, you will have enough drive to get you going on the journey to personal growth and the leading of a powerful life.
Although the avoidance of pain is the most powerfully motivating factor for human beings, pain doesn't have to be your only motivating factor.
As well as getting uncomfortable you can also get excited.
Excite yourself with the notion of everything you have to gain by living your life differently from this point on.
Think of everything you could experience, everything you could contribute, everything you could be have and do.
By now you should have plenty of drive to begin pushing forth.
To want to improve your life in any way you have to admit that where it's at now isn't where you want to be.
You have acknowledge a gap between where you are and where you'd like to be.
This is the reason most people don't get into personal development and look to make themselves greater.
Simply put, they are comfortable where they are.
Their trusty brains tell them to avoid pain so they are reluctant to admit when things aren't exactly how they want them to be, they settle for a lesser standard of living and in settling, remove the discomfort of wanting more, and in doing so, never take action to make things better.
Pain (or discomfort) is a powerfully motivating force, without which very little can be accomplished.
Most people will only make a decision or attempt to do something new or different in their lives when they get too much pain from their current situations.
Your job if you want to be happier, achieve more, be more confident, make more money is to get absolutely clear that NOT doing those things and NOT having what you want is going to be extremely painful.
Make the pain real in your mind.
Talk about or write down somewhere everything you will miss out on if you don't start doing X differently.
Identify with the things you will feel if you don't make the change you want to make.
How disappointed will you be? How will it feel to lose X? How frustrated will you be if things continue as they are now? Once you are totally clear on why you absolutely MUST do something differently starting right now, you will have enough drive to get you going on the journey to personal growth and the leading of a powerful life.
Although the avoidance of pain is the most powerfully motivating factor for human beings, pain doesn't have to be your only motivating factor.
As well as getting uncomfortable you can also get excited.
Excite yourself with the notion of everything you have to gain by living your life differently from this point on.
Think of everything you could experience, everything you could contribute, everything you could be have and do.
By now you should have plenty of drive to begin pushing forth.