Friday, 30 December 2011

Living The Lifestyle You Want Is Essential

By Gnifrus Urquart


Living the lifestyle you want is one key to eternal happiness. Following your dreams promotes joy and good health as well as positive self esteem. Choosing the way you live your life promotes longevity and positive mental health.

If there are people who are discouraging you from a certain living arrangement, employment, or significant other, it may be a good idea to evaluate one's support system and reassess who is helping you move forward and who is holding you back. It is a good idea to decide what you want out of life to determine what things you need changing and what things can stay the same. Values and priorities are all a part of this.

If you are setting out to make adjustments in your style of life, make sure you know how to stick to it as change is hard and one must be persistent and diligent. It takes about twenty-one days to start a new habit so one must keep trying and trying or the change will be hard to make.

Setting one up to succeed is crucial to changing things in one's life. Set small goals and then get into bigger ones. If they are too large at first, one can discouraged and then quit so smaller goals are better as they are easier to stick with.

It took a while to get to you are so it may take a while to undo anything negative you want to leave your life. Be patient with this process.

If you encounter difficulties, find a friend, family member or professional counselor to confide in. Life changes are not always easy, so having a social support network in place is a good idea.

Make sure you are committed and then everything will be fine. Without that, one is going nowhere; they will just stay the same. Keep an open mind and then your outlook will improve. Keeping a closed mind leads to frustration and discouragement as little or no growth happens in this mindset and this can lead to unhappiness.

Living the lifestyle you want can be invigorating and liberating, but it will take some work and patience. Outline your plans in advance and then start taking the steps that will put your plan in motion. As you shed your negative thoughts and replace your bad habits, you will begin to see improvement. Keep in mind that using your agency to create the life you envision is the surest path to happiness, physical health and to longevity.




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