Personal Growth

If you want to move in a new direction in an area of your life there are two options. The first option, you can “just let it happen”. You can be a free-flowing soul who just floats along life’s river letting the current and the weather take you where it will. The second option is […]

After the decision was made that our goal was to improve our health, (however you define it), we started building the framework, (skeleton), for how we were going to make this change in our “fictional life”. The framework included the structure points of changing what we are going to eat, what we are going to […]

Hopefully, you have spent time considering one area of your life and are coming up with ideas that excite you and you will be able to establish as your goal. Your goal(s) do need to excite and inspire you. Your goal(s) need to be what you are passionate about and what motivate you. Let’s go […]

Creating a plan for achieving your new habit is critical to success. No matter what area of your life you are choosing to focus on, your career, your marriage relationship, raising your children, your health, your wealth, your community involvement, your political involvement, your education, your relationships with family and friends or your spiritual views, […]

Have you ever woke up one day deciding to begin a new habit and by the end of the day have it fully engrained in your life? No, of course you haven’t. Habits don’t work that way. Habits begin very slowly. That may be one of the reasons why good habits are hard to develop […]

We last looked at how habits, whether good or bad, become strong and control our lives. You can check this post out titled How Do Habits Work?. As we continue to attempt to break down ways to have more success in setting goals for ourselves we looked at how habits begin very simply and without […]

As we endeavor to make changes in our life we come face-to-face with the realization of the challenge of the undertaking. We come to understand the strength of habits. We have habits in every area of our life. Some are obvious and we recognize them. Most are less obvious, but nevertheless they are habits. Take […]

We are about one week into the new year and about 40% of the resolutions people made are already broken. And another 20% will fall by the wayside by the end of January. Why does this happen? It’s a common pastime of our society to make New Year’s Resolutions. Something about changing from one year […]