Changing Your Habits is the Key to Success

This morning, I woke up and listened to the Winning the Game of Money audio.  This is a new morning habit for me.  I am now priming my brain daily to think more positively and become more in tune with financial opportunities.   Some of the other great habits that I have been inspired to make since starting the Winning the Game of Money program is eating veggies three times per day, reviewing my vision board, reciting my positive affirmations and exercising.  I love that this program is 90 days.  I can stick with anything for 90 days.

I had some extra time this morning and decided to pull up one of the bonus videos.  I'm listening to Darren Hardy, publisher of Success magazine, talk about maximizing your personal effectiveness.  In the past, I've been guilty of buying personal effectiveness books and halfheartedly implementing the strategies.  Now that I'm blogging about my results, I'm going to be a bit more invested.

First and foremost, you must take responsibility for your life.  At some point, you have to stop the blame game.  I played it for years.  I have epilepsy and people treat me differently and restrict my freedom.  Blah, blah, blah...Guess what?  No one cares.  The other thing is that when you stop blaming others, it is very empowering.  It's okay to have been making crazy mistakes or failing.  You can change right now.  You can be real with yourself and say, "I'm here right now.  I'm going to move forward.  I'm going to learn from these mistakes and fill my life with habits of success."  There is power in taking responsibility and refocusing on the fundamentals.

All the outcomes in your life are the cumulative effect of the choices in your life.  Changing your choices will change your results.  Every choice you make starts a trajectory.  Compounded over time, it ends up in colossal success or colossal failure.  Healthy eating habits and exercise will lead to a smaller waistline, muscles, a greater ability to lift things and more energy.  Focusing on generating cash flow and money will result in having money.  The important thing is to identify what isn't working and make adjustments along the way.  Don't get "stuck on stupid" as my father would say and continue to make the same mistakes over and over.

The most successful people in the world find a way that no matter what the circumstance, excuse, find a way to overcome it.  You have a choice to how you respond to your choices.  There are thousands of cases of people who had it much worse than you that end up doing much better than you.

It is our responsibility to change.  It starts with how you think and what you do.  One thing that I'm doing daily is writing down what I'm grateful for at the end of each blog post.  This is going to improve my self-esteem and my overall attitude.  Here are the three things that I'm grateful for today:

1. My healthy eating habits are becoming easier and more enjoyable
2. I created a wonderful recipe for sweet potato fries that will make my autoimmune paleo snacks yummier.
3. I am grateful for the work from home appointment setter job that I discovered and the opportunity that I have to earn money in my spare time.  

So, today, I encourage everyone reading this blog to take full responsibility of their current outcome and identify a healthy habit that you are going to apply to your life today.  In the infamous words of Nike, "Just do it."  Make it a habit and for best results, track it so that you can see what the impact it is having on your life.