Lifetrax: Have you ever felt stuck?

Have you ever felt stuck? Stuck in a job you don’t love, or a relationship that’s not what it used to be? Perhaps it’s something as simple as not being motivated enough to lose those pounds or achieve a simple goal that you know you could achieve if you could just figure out how to make the changes you need to make.

The fact is, you’ll only make a change in your life when your reason why is strong enough. Perhaps you feel stuck in your job because the idea of looking for something else leads you to believe it might not make much of a difference. Perhaps you feel stuck in your relationship because you believe that your significant other doesn’t really care. Maybe those pounds don’t seem like a big deal right now.

Let’s put a reason why behind those things. What if you don’t find a job you love, and years from now you look back with regret and wish you had the courage to make that change today? What if next week, your wife serves you with divorce papers because you decided it didn’t matter that taking her out on that date was important to her? How about next year, when your doctor tells you that you have diabetes because of your weight? Your reason why has now changed.

When we look at what we want to achieve from the perspective of why it matters, our view of what’s important begins to take on a new image. Suddenly, looking for a new job begins to matter. Suddenly, spending time with your wife matters. Suddenly, what you eat matters.

So how do we begin to look at life, as if everything matters? We start with our reason why. The problem is, most people focus on why not. The reality of being successful at anything you want to achieve in life is that it’s actually pretty simple to succeed, it’s just a little simpler not to.

The second issue with being successful is that people tend to look at the larger goal, and forget that in order to achieve the big goal, you simply need to achieve a series of smaller goals along the way. So let me ask you, “What do you want to be?” Whatever it is for you, if you begin with your reason why, and that why is strong enough, then you will feel an overwhelming desire to begin taking action right away.

The best way to begin making the changes you want to see in your life, that will help you feel unstuck, is to identify exactly what you want. Don’t hold back, and don’t stop yourself from believing that what you want is possible. The most important aspect of achieving your goals is to believe that what you want is possible, and anchor that belief with a really strong reason why you must achieve it!

I encourage you to think of anything you want to be, do, or have in life as a goal from now on. When you do that, every choice you make begins to take on new importance. Start with your reason why. By phrasing your goals with a “Because” statement, your life suddenly matters more. Like, “Because I don’t want to wake up and regret staying in this job, I’m going to start looking for a new job, starting today.” Or, “Because I committed to being an amazing husband to my wife, I’m going to ask my wife out on a date tonight.”

Make what you want to be, do, and have matter to you, because your reason why is stronger than your reason why not, and you’ll begin taking action on what matters in your life.

About Tom Anderson

Tom Anderson is the creator of The LifeTrax Success System and the author of the series of books titled, Your Journey Of Being. As a life coach, his mission is to help people improve their lives and achieve their goals. For more information about Tom’s weekly group coaching or LifeTrax, visit http://LifeTraxCoaching.com

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