I have just spent 3 days with a friend who calls himself a Lifestyle Trader on the stock market. This concept is good and I like the idea of trading whilst not letting it impede on your lifestyle. If we let that happen, then it would just be another JOB. In my quest to spread the word about Success Communication, I will take up the task of discussing the topic of Lifestyle. After all, without lifestyle, life could be pretty mundane. It is also vital to your Sense of Identity.
Can We Change Our Lifestyle?
We’ve all heard the excuses – we’re too tired, too poor, and too busy. No matter what we want to change in our lives, we can come up with dozens of reasons why we just can’t make the necessary adjustments to our lifestyle. It’s not a stretch to begin to think that we actually can’t change our lifestyle, but that’s not completely true. Indeed, we CAN change the way we live in this world, if only we adjust our thinking.
Find Examples Of Success
In my article about The Feeling Of Success, I mentioned that “Success = Gratitude“. Surround yourself with success stories. They can make you feel grateful and will bring great motivation to our personal plans. Whether we want the same things as the successful person or not, by realizing that others have had success and do have success, we can begin to believe that we will too. Search for friends and family members who have had success and ask to hear their stories. You can even write down these stories to have reminders to read when times get a little tougher. Remember, all great ideas start with a dream. Dreams become thoughts and thoughts (combined with action) become reality.
CDI – Consistent Daily Improvement
Too often, we think that change needs to be in leaps and bounds in order to count toward rea’ changes in our lives – but this is far from the case. Think of small ways that you can adjust your lifestyle today. For example, you might want to start by adding in one extra glass of water to your diet each day when your goal is to start eating healthier. In a few weeks, add another glass of water to each day until you reach your goal. These little successes add up to big motivation for your goals. If you improve yourself by 1% every day, you will have a 100% improvement in 100 days. Not bad! That is also referred to as CDI. Consistent Daily Improvement.
Stay Motivated
There will be times when your motivation wanes and it seems like you will never make the lifestyle changes necessary to become the person you want to be. But just as the bad times come, they will also go. Just continue to persevere and reach the smaller goals that you have set, and your troubles will be gone before you know it. These are times of failure, after all; they’re great times for learning.
Here’s to an improved Lifestyle
Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
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Thanks for this great post Sean
It’s just what I needed this morning… a pleasure to read!
Thanks Ange. My pleasure!
Is a good post!
I just got the answer i want from here…
Thanks a lot…
I like the idea of constant daily improvement – breaking big goals down into small steps along the way. It also reminds me of the Japanese philosophy of Kaizen. While Kaizen seems to relate more to a corporate context, there are definitely some interesting parallels in how it could be used in personal improvement.
For me, the concept of ‘lifestyle’ isn’t a destination, and my ideal lifestyle definitely isn’t a place where I think I could end up by accident. Rather, I think of lifestyle is a matter of daily choice, and that people get what they settle for. It is important to recognise that creeping ‘non-choice’ can in itself be a choice to be swept along by the ordinary.
So how to avoid this? Well, I need to make sure that 1) I know what sort of lifestyle I want, and 2) I ensure the method I want to use to earn money fits into my desired lifestyle. Otherwise I would be letting work dictate life, which can be all too easy to let happen but doesn’t sound like so much fun.
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Tom, Never heard of Kaizen so thanks for mentioning it. I like your take on ‘lifestyle’.
It’s been an interesting journey the last few months and I am beginning to change my views on many things. I already have the vision of the lifestyle that I want. The next big step is to identify how to get there (and to stop work dictating my life).
“If you improve yourself by 1% every day, you will have a 100% improvement in 100 days”.
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This is also something that alot of life coaches teach, it takes 30 days to change a habit, so make a consistent effort to chip away at that goal one day at a time.
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Mental toughnes. Emotional intelligence. These are a couple of phrases that spring to mind when I read this post. In order to make the constant daily changes we require and keep up the motivation to apply changes long enough for them to become a habit, we have to be in charge of our thoughts and emotions. I am currently tring to improve my diet for a range of medical reasons. It would be easy for me to revert back to my usual bad habits but whenever I see a lovley piece of cake, or pass my favourite fast-food joint on the way to the green-grocers I just remind myself why I am doing it. After a few weeks I am now enjoying my almost vegetarian diet.
Make your reason powerful enough and be in charge of your impulses.
Yes, I agree, make small changes and apply them consistently, that’s what works best for me. I also like going to funerals of successful people to hear what they did in their lives that they wouldn’t tell anyone. I knew someone who had an amazing life but who kept it to himself. So, before he died, I asked him to record his life story on a tape recorder and then I typed it up. Fascinating.
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Hi Wal
6 Months ago it was brought home to me even in your own family you don’t always know a person and their achievements.
My Sister in Law passed away and till then never knew she was the top Archivist with B.H.P then with the QLD Government and some other high profile government places I then relised, I didn’t really know her, as when she left a place she put it behind her and never spoke of it again the number of people there to say good by who were amazed at the FULL and rewarding life she had lived.
Hi Sean,
I love the concept of Constant Daily Improvement. A series of tiny improvements each day will gain momentum and in no time flat, we will actually be well on our way to achieving our goals.
Also, small improvements are less confronting than making big changes and I think they’re more likely to last.