Sixty percent of people abandon their New Year’s Resolution within six months.

Ninety-five percent of people who lose weight on a diet, regain it.

And only one in seven patients make any lasting changes concerning their diet and exercise routine after having a heart attack.  Interpretation: Death itself can not force you to change.  Most people will gladly look death in the face and say, “I will not change.  I’d rather embrace your bitter end, then endure the process of change.” And if death won’t change you, what will?

Although these facts maybe staggering, change is still possible, and not only is it possible, it is necessary.

Change – In Four Steps:

Step 1: Desire

If you don’t have a very strong desire for change, then you won’t change. 

You must be able to list the reasons that you desire change.  As an example, “I want to change my diet so that I will live longer; so that I will be at a healthy weight; so that I will be happier.” 

If you don’t have a very strong desire for change, then you can forget about it. 

Step 2: Vision

Secondly, you must be able to see yourself as the individual that you want to be.  If you can’t see it, you will never have it.  You can’t hit a target that you can’t see it.  You can’t drive to a destination with your eyes closed, you will crash. 

You have to see what you will be. You must believe in the vision. 

To have a successful business, you must first see yourself as a successful business person, you must see it as already done; otherwise you don’t have a chance.

Step 3: Thinking

There is no change without a change in thinking.  Ask any person who has broken a bad habit.  There was a time when they thought of smoking cigarettes all the time, and now they never think of smoking cigarettes. 

You have to change your thinking. 

And changing your thinking begins with changing what you give your attention to.  If you focus on the negative, the bad, the habit, you will get more of the same.  If you focus on the positive, the good, the new habit, then that will eventually take over your life.  The good will swallow up the bad.

Step 4: Habits

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.  To be a success, you must have the habits of the successful.  And you will only gain the habits of the successful by first finding out what those habits are and secondly by using your will power to ensure those habits become your habits.

The purpose of will power is to create a habit.  Will power doesn’t work in the long-term, it must be used to force your hand in the initial stages.  Will power is used to get your train on the right track.  Once your train is on the right track, it will run on that track, and that track will bring you from where you are to where you want to be.

In Closing

We’ve just discussed the process to change, follow these steps, and in time you will change.  You will go from where you are, to where you desire to be, you will change, you will succeed, you will be your best, you will have the life you desire.

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