I kinda like your word here Yaro..

as in my perspective, people live only once right..so why don’t we make the best of it in every step we take..

Deny

I started a blog a couple of year ago about my work and had lots of hits for little effort (it was very technical and not much info was available for free on the net), but since it is not moving me it is now dying from lack of interest and investment.

Having family responsibilities is what generally what stops us from changing, but I feel strongly the urge to satisfy the corner of myself who once was a little boy who wanted to help. I have now started a new blog about people who are working to make a better world.

I don’t know where this is going to lead me, I don’t know if I can monetise it, but I know I have a lot more interest in that than in my sit-in-the-office-with-a-tie current job.

I like the sounds of your mother – I too prefer the more hermit like existence over socializing, and yet… You get me around folks and push-come-to-shove, I am plenty opinionated! Now… if only I were to educate my opinions:-)

Some years back, I had a dream. Scared the be-jeebers out of me. Course, I had it coming since the night before, near despair, I asked for clarity. Gloooory be!

Everybody dreams, nobody remembers ALL of their dreams, some remember many and some (me) rarely remember any!

You said – “You want to be the driver in your life, even if you can never be sure where the road is taking you or what you will pass through on the way.”

Ha! To this day, nearly 4 years later, I still remember that dream quite vividly and I am still kicking and screaming and dragging my heels or often, I am being dragged. I am most definitely not the driver – not yet anyway.

Looking forward to reading the other articles on this topic.

You picked a doozy!
Clare

Change is living. If we go through life always doing and being the same, there is no growth to our lives. New experience provide change, new people in our lives provide change. We learn from each other.

Living in our comfort zone stops growth. You are one of the lucky people in the fact that you are not scared to get out of your comfort zone and that is wonderful.

You are very good at teaching people how to blog and have great authority. It is no wonder that now you are getting into the field of self imporvment. There is a great need for it and everyones input helps another person.

Debbie

What I have found over the past few months is a complete paralysis to the action needed for real change, happiness, and success in my personal life. I want it. That isn’t the trouble. The trouble seems to be with my mind. It is resistant. It is resistant to the possibility of success and failure. I need to engage the clutch and get out of nuetral and begin driving my own change. Ain’t no one gonna do it for me.

Thank you. On to article two.

“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

The way we think and feel are generally a collection of ‘thought habits’ based on memories of past experiences. It is only by breaking ‘negative thoughts’ and replacing them with ‘positive’ ones, that there is any real chance of changing for the better.

All habits are hard to crack, some more so than others, but all habits can be removed and replaced with better ones, but only if you want the change bad enough, and that will require mindful and persistent commitment.

Believe it or not, but some folks actually enjoy wallowing in self pity and failure even if they deny it. It’s what they know best (familiarise with), and therefore it gives some kind of warped comfort. I know that sounds daft, but it’s true.

Such individuals will only be able to move forward when they want to improve MORE than they want to stagnate. Even if that desire for change is only slightly greater than the option do nothing, they can, and will, form new habits that will inevitably change both their attitude and their outlook on life as they see it.

Aitch