Change isn’t easy

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Whatever it is in our lives that we are trying to change the journey is not an easy one.

It is going to require accepting things about ourselves, it is going to need commitment, it is going to be hard work.

There will be setbacks and times when you questions whether or not it is worth it. Perhaps you were OK anyway and didn’t need to change.

Others will try to derail you, you may even lose people along the way as you change as a person.

You might not make the change you wanted.

However, more often you will make it if you stick at it.

Changing something is a hugely liberating and meaningful thing to do. Doing nothing has no joy.

The reality is, to never try to change is longer term much harder and once you have put the hard work into making one change, other changes come much easier. It becomes a habit.

Better always to try something than to never try at all no matter how challenging.

After all always doing the same will always bring the same outcome.

Never break the chain

Apart from being in the lyrics to this well-known Fleetwood Mac song, if you want to build habits, commitment, then build a chain and never break it.

If you take a task or habit, or anything you want to build or achieve and break it down into daily commitments. Grab a calendar or use my new favourite killer app Productive and mark a cross or swipe done each day, it is like building a ‘steel chain’ of commitment to something.

The longer the chain gets the stronger it gets and the less likely you are to break it.

Habit is all about repetition and going back each day and continuing to cut the new pathways in the brain.

Never break the chain and watch how your productivity becomes stronger and stronger.