Making Changes That Stick
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by, Corey Wells

Once you’ve decided to make a lasting change in your life, you need to accurately identify the reasons that are motivating this change and why the change is important to you. This is key because motivation is sometimes fleeting. It comes and goes without warning. One minute it’s there, the next it’s gone. In order to make lasting changes, you must control this motivation.

This can be accomplished by reaffirming your motivation each and every day. With daily reaffirmation, you are in effect renewing the promise you made to yourself to institute a change. This is something that should be included in your daily ritual….take a shower, brush your teeth, reaffirm your motivation, etc.

It often helps to relive previous successes by remembering the feeling of accomplishment you had when you succeeded in the past. Also, write down a plan for making this change. By putting your plan in writing, you create a continual reminder of what needs to be done.

Making a lasting change requires both motivation and commitment. When your motivation starts to fade, take out your written plan and review it. Try to renew the excitement you had when initially decide a change was needed. Acknowledge that the change will promote your personal growth. By doing this, the change you’re planning today will eventually become habit later on.

Today’s Quotes

  1. Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
    Zora Neale Hurston

  2. Contentment is not fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.
    Unknown
  3. Happiness is enhanced by others, but does not depend upon others.
    Unknown
  4. God has no hands but our hands and no tongue but our tongue.
    Anne Johnson Flint
  5. Drawing attention to the contributions of women provides for both girls and boys the positive role models they need in society and gives them a more realistic perspective of what women’s lives have been like throughout history.
    Pat Hunter-Williams
  6. There might be false starts and do-overs. You are entitled to experiment before you find your calling.
    Jane Pauley
  7. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.
    Mary W. Stewart
  8. To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
    Margaret Thatcher