“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.“  ~e.e. cummings

I’m getting excited about moving and leaving old outdated habits behind.  How about you?  Would you like a fresh start?  Today I am just going to cover some of the elements of a successful ritual for leaving the past behind and starting anew.  There are myriad ways to do this, but I have found the procedure that I going to spell out in the next few entries to be effective and reasonably simple.

For today, here are the questions I would like you to ponder and answer for yourself:

  • What old habits would you like to leave behind?  (What habits do you have currently that no longer serve you?)
  • What positive things do you think those habits did for you in the past and might still be doing at some level?
  • Are you truly okay with leaving these old habits behind?  Ask yourself, be honest and if not – ask yourself why?
  • What new habits would you like to put in their place?  (If you could have the perfect habits that would really make success, on your terms, certain – what would those habits be?)
  • Remember a time when you made a change for the better, anytime in your life, and write down as much of the details of this time and this change as you can remember.
  • If you haven’t already, write a brief description of your vision for your future life – a compelling vision of what your future life will be like once you have accomplished your next series of life goals – make this vision perhaps twelve to eighteen month out.

That’s it for today.  Tomorrow you can read about my personal answers to these questions and I’ll continue to lay out the process for doing this wonderful empowering exercise.

Till next time faithful reader…Jack

“I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I’ve written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.” ~Shirley MacLaine