Change

Change...

For some people change, any change, means stress, anguish and sometimes great fear, some people fear some changes even more then death itself.

A couple of months ago I decided to make drastic and lasting change on my life and myself. The first change was to give up nicotine in any form, I started earlier by giving up cigarettes and using the electronic cigarettes during a few months but it reached a time where I made up my mind and decided it was time to quit. This was over 3 months ago and I feel better every day.

By dealing with other ex smokers in a online support group I notice that most people have a hard time dealing with the smoking cessation, even more if they are using or have used quit smoking aids like gum or patches for instance.

I speak about my first change simply because with this change I learned a very important thing.

"To embrace great and lasting change you need to be mentally ready for it".

We live in the information era, the developed world today has access to more information instantly then ever before and that is a amazing resource that can't be underestimated. The first step in getting your mind prepared for change is to educate yourself. Learn all you can about the actions you're about to take, evaluate the challenges and the outcomes, set clear goals and visualize yourself completing your goals.

To operate any change successfully you will need to prepare your mind for it, you'll need to live it in your mind and this is true for any change you want to operate. Most people advise to only change one thing at a time, the impact can be too great on yourself if you try to do everything at once. While I don't encourage you to try and operate multiple drastic changes in your habits or lifestyle I would surelly not forbid you from doing so.
Part of the learning process will teach you that we're individuals and as such what works for one doesn't necessarily work for another. What one goes through isn't necessarily what the other goes through. Our individuality ensures that each of us experiences life in his/her own way, this is why it is incredibly important that you research the best way to program your mind for the changes that you'd like to operate in your life.

All I can talk about is the experience I'm having and what works for me, if it works for anyone out there then that's great, if it doesn't work for you, then stop for a second and try to understand why it isn't work, try to understand the procedures and the changes operated by me and visualize what you'd have to change to adapt the procedure so that it will work with you.

Change can be a lot easier then most of us think. If we're mentally prepared and focused we can change almost anything we want.

Everyone can make the changes they want, and the key is very simple... program your mind so that the change you want to achive is a absolute must. If you must change then you will change. Imagine that if you don't stop smoking you will die (we all know that can happen but imagine it will happen instantly on your next cigarette), wouldn't you stop imediately? You must stop else you die, so if it is a must you will do it. The key then is to learn to program your mind so that the changes you want to introduce in your life are seen and taken as life or death and absolute must.

I hope to be able to write on a regular basis and I won't do it about anything in particular, this will be a collection of thoughts as they happen in my head while I go through the biggest change and challenge I've ever made in my life.

I vowed to change my life in some key areas like:

1- Health
2- Massive weight loss
3- Eatime habits
4- Poisons (nicotine, alcohol, etc)
5- Financial freedom

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