7 Keys to Changing Anything in Your Life Today

 Happy, vibrant, successful people think and behave in certain ways. So do miserable and unfulfilled people. In other words, there are patterns of success and patterns of failure. The good news is, success leaves clues!

The Pressure Cooker 
There’s one more reason people don’t change—they get into a “pressure cooker.”

People climb into the pressure cooker again and again! How can you avoid it?

The 7 Steps of Conscious Change

STEP 1: Get Disturbed 

• Be honest with yourself. Don’t use softeners or rationalizations; don’t compare yourself with others to make yourself feel better. 

• Get associated to the problem. If necessary, make it worse than it is to get yourself to take action. If you’re not disturbed, you’re not going to change. 

• Surround yourself with people who have what you want. Seeing them will disturb you, and either you’ll run back to your old friends to make yourself feel better or you’ll join a new peer group. If you want to be good at tennis, play with somebody better than yourself.

STEP 2: Make a Real Decision

What do successful people have in common? Successful people have an RPM for their lives.

STEP 3: Create a Massive Action Plan
 It’s time to “draw the MAP.” To make sure you follow through, come up with a list of actions that will absolutely produce results.

STEP 4: Change Your Limiting Beliefs

A belief is nothing more than a feeling of absolute certainty about what something means. Beliefs control our behavior. They can be unconscious or conscious, and they often stem from things we’ve heard or seen, felt a lot of emotion about and then repeated to ourselves again and again until we felt certain.

STEP 5: Set Yourself Up to Win

• Reward yourself. When learning something new, most people don’t do it perfectly the first time. To win the game of life, you’ve got to reward yourself for doing things approximately right in the beginning.

• Score the experience. Do things that add emotional intensity and make the process more enjoyable along the way. If you’re working out, you can listen to music, work out with a buddy, pray while you exercise, etc. Choose things that meet all of your 6 Human Needs.

• Take advantage of NET time. Increase the value of your time by doing several things at once. It takes NET . . . no extra time!

• Measure your progress. You’ll be excited about your results if you measure your progress. Set yourself up to win by measuring in more than one way. For example, if you only measure the pounds you lose, there may be days when you don’t see results. Measure anything that can give you growth.

STEP 6: Take Massive Action

• There is no time like the present! Never leave the site of setting a goal without doing something toward its attainment. Do something while you’re inspired, while you’re “in state.” The more massive the action, the more committed you will be to achieving the result.

• The power of incantations—you can’t just get rid of a negative belief; you have to replace it. Try incanting your new beliefs, saying them again and again, changing the emphasis and changing your state. By changing the emotion, you change the impact you feel, and you begin to condition yourself for even more action

• Massive action creates momentum. You don’t have to do a thousand things; you just have to do something.

STEP 7: The Seventh Power

When you care how people feel about you, you make them your peers and you give them power to influence the way you think. Tap into the Seventh Power—the power of environment. Choose a peer group with a high standard, utilize a coach and immerse yourself in an environment that reinforces you for your wins and challenges you to greater heights.