The First Step to Take if You Want to Change Your Life
I wanted to change for years. I was unfulfilled and unhappy with where I was. I knew I needed to change, but I didn’t know where to start.The first step to changing anything is self-awareness.You have to become aware of what the problem is and accept it. You can’t change anything if you don’t know what to change.Accept you have blind spots and then you have the ability to change them.To change, you need to know where you currently stand. You want to make strides, but if you try to go too big, then you’re setting yourself up to fail.By being self-aware, you take stock of your current abilities and limits. You recognize where your downfalls are and what needs work. It gives you the necessary starting point if you want to get anywhere.How can you use this? Let’s take an example. There are different areas of life. Take the area you want to improve. Let’s say you want to improve your physical health.You have to take stock of where you currently are so that you can set reasonable goals and adjust your expectations. You can’t go from lying on your couch, eating Cheetos, to running a marathon.Become aware of your current status. What do you currently eat? How often do you currently work out? If you’re not exercising at all, you know going in you need to build endurance and stamina.You know that you won’t be running a marathon off the bat, and you can set reasonable goals to move in the right direction.
The only way to make real change is if you become aware of the situation. Figure out where you currently stand, otherwise, you won’t be able to make reasonable goals to get to the next step.This is how you change. You need a starting point and ending point before you can get directions to get there.Find out where you are first, and then you’re on the road to success.
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