How to Turn Your Life Around
by A simple approach to making permanent, meaningful changes in your life.
5. Don’t get discouraged if you fall
If you do have an instance where you revert to your old habit, do not throw in the towel and give up on changing your life. We are humans and human beings sometimes have moments of weakness. Learn from the mistake, understand what led to it happening, and vow to never, ever let it happen again. Move on and get back to the business of bettering yourself.
6. Start Positive Behaviours
After you have identified and stopped the destructive behaviours in your life, it is time to begin starting new positive behaviours. As an example, if your goal is to lose weight and live a healthy, active lifestyle, you may consider introducing some moderate exercise into your daily routine. Take small steps, and choose things that you know you can do, and then as before, make the commitment to do them. Once this new step has become a new habit, introduce something else. Perhaps as someone who has decided to become sober you have some relationships to heal. Start by listing the ones you’d like to fix first, and then begin working on the list, one at a time. Don’t move to the next person until you are comfortable that you have done what is needed with the first. Whatever your goal, pick one thing you can START doing in your life that will lead to positive change, make the commitment to start doing it, then just do it!
7. Sustain the Change
Once you’ve started a new behaviour, make it a part of your life. By the time you get to the point where you are starting new behaviours, when you have stopped the negative ones and sustained the change, your life will be noticeably better than it is now. It is important to remain focused, even though you may not be suffering the way you have been lately. Continue to make positive changes, and continue to start new, positive behaviours. You may even occasionally spot another negative behaviour that you want to stop. Use the same method.
This simple method is about small, sustainable steps combined with time. It takes some patience, but simply knowing that you have taken even one step to be a better person, and then remaining loyal to your commitment to the behaviour change will make you feel so much better than you have been.
You can do it! Just start when you are ready, and move on to the next step when you are ready. For each step, DECIDE in your own mind that you will stop / start, then just do it. Doing one thing at a time will ensure you don’t get overwhelmed; so often people try to stop all their bad habits at once, and this can be an unhealthy shock to the system, either physically, emotionally or both. You will probably find that once you get started on this you will continue applying these same principles for the rest of your life.
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