Diamond Dallas Page, the real People’s Champion, of professional wrestling has grown beyond the squared circle to write multiple books and develop a fitness program that is changing lives. Below is a snippet about making fundamental life changes that I’ve borrowed from his book Positively Unstoppable: The Art of Owning It.
To get what you’ve never had before, you must be willing to do what you have never done before. Whatever it is that you decide you want, it’s something new. But you still have the same job, the same spouse, friends,family, schedule, routine. What can you alter to begin to accommodate change? How will you make room for it? How will you integrate the change into your life? What you normally have done before, that will change. So be prepared to move beyond your comfort zone …
This is where you have to change your circumstances, just like I did when it came to learning to read. You have to change what you do in an ordinary day, an ordinary week. Bit by bit, you will need to substantially adjust your lifestyle, because you’re going to change your life itself this year.
So, even if you’re prepared to put in the physical, everyday work required to change, you have to accept emotionally and intellectually that who you are is going to change on a fundamental level.
Are you ready for that? If the answer is yes, then, again: What are you willing to do? …
But if you’re committed to change— if you’ve broken your overall goal down to smaller, manageable pieces and you’ve begun changing your lifestyle—you’ll take on the next step…
The bottom line is this: No matter where you are now, another year will go by and you’ll find yourself in the same spot unless you write down your goals and take the first steps toward achieving them. Don’t be paralyzed by fear of failure, or fear of too much work! Just start small and hack away at your goal. You’ll wake up one morning and realize just how far you’ve come.
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