Now here’s another thing we know about people who achieve long-term behaviour change; they don’t just think about making changes but just as importantly, maintaining those changes. That is, whatever it is that you’ve begun to see as your best possible life needs to be viewed as something that is, or will become, your “normal life”. By doing so, it will become something you do each and every day, without effort or consideration.
Happiness and success, it’s been said, require nothing more than practising a few simple disciplines, each and every day!
Dieting, for example, should not be something you’re just doing to lose weight; but rather, because eating healthily is just what you do.
Similarly, exercising, for those who do it regularly, is just something they do; each and every day. It’s non-negotiable!
The same can be said for meditation or mindfulness practice or the practice of gratitude or any other behaviour which has been determined to be helpful and which, therefore, should be integrated in to daily life.
With this in mind, therefore, if your new lifestyle was your “normal” lifestyle, what would that be like? How would you be different?