How long should we wait to take absolute steps to change? How long should we wait and continue to live an unfulfilling life? How long should we suffer? How many times should we promise to change and experience the disappointment of failing before we realize our determination and understanding is simply not enough? How long should you remain the way you are when you can be so much better?
There’s no reason to wait. Not another day has to go by feeling like you are helpless to change. Don’t blame yourself. Change can be difficult when you don’t understand the powerful psychological forces that hold you where you are. The failures or weak successes you may have had is not your fault. You lacked right understanding of those factors working against you. Whenever you try to solve your deeper issues and resolve the factors that hold you in negative patterns you subconsciously bring in some of the problems into your solution. This is inevitable. You do not have objectivity. You cannot see the forest through the trees. If someone wants to become a professional athlete, an engineer, a chef or a mechanic they need a teacher, a coach, a mentor, a guide. Change and success require greater understanding and skills than we possess at the moment. If we want to become more or better, we need greater understanding and skills to solve the problems. Once we understand the psychological factors and principles that hold us in place we can work around them, through them, over them, even put them to work for us.
Don’t tolerate being stuck anymore. Don’t settle for less. Don’t let another year go by that leaves you too close to where you are already. Don’t let another day go by without taking real steps to begin a true process of change. Get the skills, get the right understanding, get the momentum and inspiration to grow. Like a benchmark on the wall to gauge the growth of a child through the years, make a mark of where you are today and commitment to be more by next year. Measure and work at it and see how far you can go. Need objectivity and perspective? Call and we’ll work together: I’ll do the hard parts!
Scott Spackey is a State Certified Addiction Counselor, Life-Coach, Hypnotherapist, and Interventionist. For more information, please call 661-299-1966, email: Scott@Life-Mind.com and visit www.LIFE-MIND.com.