Wednesday, April 30, 2008

How do you live your day?

I feel privleged to have this month in Hawaii. I was able to do everything I wanted cause I have the resources.

Here's an old quote that everyone has heard - "I am my own worst enemy"

As someone goes through a day, they feel many ups and downs. It leaves people in a mixed state day after day and life doesn't feel as great as it should. We all know that most of us have very "easy" lives. By easy I mean that we aren't fighting for our lives, but instead other factors are out there that affect us with just as much stress as if we were fighting for our lives. The best part is that we are in a situation that we can do something about it. We are in a situation that we can help ourselves. I'll say it again, we have full power over how we feel everyday.

Here's a few things we can do everyday to make our lives better -

Break your negative patterns - patterns are behaviours and emotions that happen over and over cause of a stimulus. Like binge eating due to stress, depression due to lost loves, etc. Patterns are addictive, but breaking them is possible. If you can recognize the pattern, break it. Here's how you do it. As you see the pattern happening, radically change your mental and physical state. Simple. I mean, jump around and yell like a wolf. Just something stupid and funny. Keep doing it. Do it in public also. You'll give others a chuckle.

Keep an ocean away from negative "stuff" - just stay away from people or things that make you feel worse than you already feel. Like a song that brings back bad memories or someone who only critizes you. This is really important.

Eat a whole food diet - Food is a HUGE factor in how you feel everyday. Eating sugary and salty stuff will give you pleasure immediately, but will ultimately make you feel like the dumps. Break the eating pattern and eat whole foods. Whole foods are foods which don't come with nutrition labels. There's lots of text on this, but the general rule is lots of veges, fruits and nuts. Some amount of meat.


If you do these three things daily. You'll see how your life moves a level up.

I have to add one more thing to this post -

How do you motivate yourself to do any of this?

Setup a few goals and write down all the reasons why you want those goals. A list. Think about all the reason why you must achieve the goals and how it'll make your life better. Realize how much you WANT it. Keep the goals in a spot where you can see it everyday. It'll keep you going like the energizer bunny.

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