Scott Piles - Change Your Habits, Change Your Life

You may not be aware of it but every time you do something, its because you have learned it. Bad habits are learned just as good habits are. If you can manage to monitor your habits, you will instantly see which are detrimental. If you aim toward improving those habits or replacing them with positive habits, you have a road toward success. Many people go through their lives being totally unaware that they can take control of their lives. They have no real aims. They dont know where they are heading, and consequently cannot reach goals that are undefined. When you manage your goals and make yourself accountable for reaching them, you are more likely to find life changes. You are accountable for your own actions and sometimes, its easier to blame circumstance or to blame other people for them than to take the bull by the horn and actually do something about those bad habits. Thus, the pillars of habit changing are:

• Taking a look at your bad habits and recognizing them
• Scheduling change
• Becoming accountable for your own actions

Take a look at your life and see which actions you take that are negative. There will be a number of actions that you incorporate into your life that you wont instantly recognize as being negative though if you examine the way that your days pass, you may see a pattern that you did not think was there. For example, do you eat to over-compensate for emotional problems? Do you miss your meals? Do you find excuses not to talk about emotional problems? There can be all kinds of barriers to happiness and these are caused not by outside stimuli but by your own day to day actions. By keeping track of these, you are able to use this mindfulness to incorporate the life changes that are listed in the chapter giving the 30 changes promised by the title of this book.

Its very important to keep a diary of events in your life as this shows you that pattern you need to change. When you are able to track your habits, you are also able to see the evolution of those habits and change the direction in which your life is going. Mindfulness means being aware of what is happening in your life. If you take the premise that what is past is gone and cannot be changed, but diary events for the future, you are able to manipulate your approach to the future and lay out goals that you are much more likely to adhere to. Having it down on paper or even having it logged into the latest app helps you to be aware of where it is that you want to go in your life.

Life coaches suggest various apps because these are tailored to the needs of those seeking change. If you do employ one of the apps suggested and only you can decide upon which is preferable in your case you make yourself accountable. You have an eyes on view of your life and can watch your progress and enjoy the positive changes that you incorporate into your life. You make this the focal point of each day and give yourself purpose for achieving small changes that really do make you into a different person.