Changing Your Life: It’s Up To You
One of my friends recently offered one of his best-loved self-help books to me – it was the most recent in a long list of recommended reading. In talking with him, I enquired as to how he was finding putting into practice his learning from all his reading. I discovered that, in fact, he was a life-long student of living life to the full but was likely to never actually take the plunge. He told me that a friend of his had suggested to him that he “stop reading all the books and starting doing it!”
Bookshops are full of personal development books. This is big business – possibly the fastest growing area of the publishing market. In addition, personal development websites proliferate – offering all types of inducements to buy their package which will change your life in five minutes!
But none of these books or programs will change your life. They could well point you in the right direction, provide you with an understanding that had been absent from your range of experience or knowledge or give you practical ideas on how to get more out of life, change your life, transform yourself or whatever. no doubt about it, there is some top-class stuff out there – and some innovative and practical personal development online help – but it will be no use to you until you put it into practice for yourself and keep putting it into practice.
Only you can change your life. Only you can grasp control of that awesome inner potential that is simply bursting for you to unleash it. The intriguing thing is that most of the advice provided by websites or books requires very little work of you, requires that you make only very minor alterations to the manner in which you manage your mind. Sadly, however, having been in this business for over fourteen years, I have seen far too many people unwilling to take five minutes each day to make the other twenty three hours and fifty five minutes so much better.
And so I come to my main point – one that I’ve already alluded to – you have to keep putting what you learn into practice. No book, program or package will change your life in five minutes. You won’t change your life in five minutes. However, five minutes each and every day is an entirely different matter – if you take or make the time to make sure that your mind is up and running each and every morning then your life will change beyond all recognition. Psychology proves in no uncertain terms that normal people only perceive what they expect to perceive and only experience what they expect to experience – that the normal life is created by the sadly closed normal mind. Open your mind every morning, change your expectations and you will change your life. But, the bottom line is, it’s entirely up to you – no one else can do it for you.