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HOW TO GROW
How are you growing in your life? Are you still learning? Or have you decided that learning was something you did in school and no longer holds your interest?Â
The growth I am talking about is not really the kind you get from books. I studied law and can tell you when I was done, I was so done with tests and exams. I did not want to ever do another test. So no paper tests, I am talking about real life tests.
I have mentioned before that life is 50/50. Some good, some difficult and if you prepare yourself for this ratio, the chances are that you would probably swing to 60/40 or even 70/30 in your favour. What a wonderful opportunity though to learn and grow in those difficult times. If you see it as a positive thing happening to you instead of a negative one, your experience will be so much more rewarding.
Growth
The whole purpose of life is to learn and grow. Life changes, you have to change with it. If you don’t, life has a way of giving you a kick in the butt, so to speak.
Keep yourself open to what lessons come your way. If you see something as challenging or you experience something you really don’t want, be open to it, ask yourself what do you need to know about this situation, what is it trying to tell you.
If you have this kind of attitude towards a situation, the chances are very good that you will grow quicker. If you close off to it, this type of situation will come around for you again, a little more forcefully, to see if you will take notice. If you still don’t, it may come as a wrecking ball to your life and believe me, not a place you want to be in.
Growth is a good thing, ladies!
It does not have to be painful, although often we make it so. Is it hard? Sometimes. Is it uncomfortable? Almost always. Growth does also not have to be forced as mentioned above, you could put yourself on a trajectory of change if you want. This is by far the better way to do it, because now you have some sort of control of what is happening in your life.
This way you have an idea of what you are letting yourself in for, and emotionally you are probably better prepared. The ideal place to be is slightly uncomfortable with change and at peace with where you are currently.
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Example
Think of going to an exercise class for the first time, it’s really hard and uncomfortable and afterwards your muscles are aching and sore. You want to quit, but don’t. After a few sessions, you expect it’s going to be hard (discomfort) and you know you are going to be stiff, but you feel so good afterwards (peace).Â
This is what it is like to focus on growth and becoming a better future version of yourself. Believe me, this is so much more fun than sitting on your butt. Creating this amazing life for yourself, that you cannot wait to wake up to.
The price of this life is discomfort and growth and if you can associate pleasure with your long term goals, all the better.Â
It is so much easier to lie on the couch eating chips, watching Netflix and yes we associate pleasure with that too. Remember though both these pleasures come from thoughts from two different parts of the brain. Your Netflix pleasure comes from your primitive brain, the part of the brain that just wants to keep you safe and the long term goal pleasure comes from your pre-frontal cortex, the part of the brain you do your planning with.
Visualize all your future
Use your pre-frontal cortex to imagine and visualize all your future options and possibilities. This will be difficult because your brain is going to go to your past to fetch evidence for what you can do in your future, but you have to get your brain thinking out of the box and visualize every wonderful thing that you want for yourself, what kind of relationships you want, what body you want to have, how much money you want to make, all the things you want to do.
Now when you go and take action from that place, your thoughts are there already and when you run into difficulties, you brain finds a way around/through these difficulties instead of just saying “I give up, this is too hard”. You already have access to the thoughts that are going to create your new life.
This is how you grow ladies, live from your future, yes it is uncomfortable, but so worth it. Are you willing to give up your current comfortable life for the life of your future? Are you willing to give everything up, your identity, your old belief systems? This is growth.
Let me know where you are growing and if you need some assistance, please reach out for some coaching, I am here to help you…
Chat next week.
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