Sunday Sayings — Making Changes

This collection of sayings comes from being at Fitbloggin‘ last weekend. I keep thinking of the many amazing stories I heard. Stories of people choosing to make changes in their lives … and each doing it in a way that works for him/her.

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If you want to make changes in your world … first know that:

In order for there to be change — there has to be realization.

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A few years ago, as a chiropractor adjusted my back, he said,

“Adjusting your back will take time. Your body was used to doing life in a certain pattern and it won’t change overnight. Some of that is because your brain has been telling those muscles to do life that way for years. Each adjustment helps your brain realize that it should send different signals to those muscles because their pattern of behavior is changing.” Then he ended with, “In order for there to be change – there has to be realization.”

That’s as true for our habits as it is for our bodies. For realization we need to be brutally honest with ourselves about what will happen if we don’t make any changes.

Learn all you can about the changes you want to make … read, ask questions, seek advice, observe others. Then trust yourself to find a plan that works for you. Doing what everyone else is doing may or may not work for you. Lying to yourself to justify what you are or aren’t doing will not work either. The truth is you can change, but you have to be honest with yourself about what works and what doesn’t.

Change is not easy, but it’s worth it.

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Don’t get discouraged … change takes time and often takes many restarts.

“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.”

- Walter Elliot

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Have you made changes to your life? How?