How To Create A Truly Life Changing Day

How to create a truly life changing Day – a masterclass by Jim Rohn
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This is a guest  post by Ben Lumley.

Ben is a Motivational Speaker and Trainer from the UK who writes about personal development at 6aliens.com. Why not connect with him on Twitter @6aliens or if you liked this article then why not subscribe to his RSS Feed?

There comes a time in everyone’s life when they say enough is enough. No more. End of the line. Conditions that affect us physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally become too much and we resolve to stop the rot or the pain. At that moment things are going to change.

I’m a firm believer in sharing knowledge that you learn along the journey of life, which is why I am writing this post. I have come across the idea of life changing days from many people but can only trace it back as far the late Jim Rohn, Business Thinker and Philosopher.

Jim realised that 4 actions contributed to a life changing day.

• Disgust
• Decision
• Desire
• Resolve

The thing about life changing days is that you can have them whenever you choose. You could decide right now, this instant, that you’ve had enough of some aspect of your life and that you want to make a change.

Disgust

The first stage of a life changing day is disgust. It’s that moment when you say no more, I’ve had enough. You become fed up of being fat, of being unhealthy, or being addicted to cigarettes. You won’t stand for being bullied and pushed around at work or at home anymore. Maybe being poor is something you’re not willing to be anymore or you’re sick of being alone.

Whatever the cause, you’re done. The overwhelming feelings of disgust, hatred, self-loathing, sadness, anger and loneliness have become too much.

This is the defining moment in your life changing day as it shows that you’ve realised the problem and aren’t willing to continue life in this way anymore.

Decision

After you’ve stated that enough is enough, you then need to start doing something about it. The first thing to do is to make a decision to change. At this stage we’re not saying what we want to achieve in the future, that’s the next step. Right now all we’re doing is making the choice to take action and to change.

One of the amazing things about life, for me, is that we have a choice in everything we do. From what we do and what we say, to what we think and how we feel, we are completely in control of our responses to life. When you walk into work on a Monday morning thinking that the week ahead is going to suck, you are making a choice to not enjoy the next 5 days.

The word decide comes from Latin and means to cut off. When you make a real decision, you cut yourself off from all other possibilities. There is no other way forward. For example if you’ve made a true decision to stop smoking you remove all other outcomes apart from giving up. There’s no going back.

Desire

Once we’ve decided to change we need to construct a trigger that will get us up and taking action. This could be something like, “I’m tired of being fat and unhealthy, I want to be toned and full of energy.” It’s this desire that will burn away inside us everyday, getting us to take action.

It’s a small goal in effect. You’re saying that you’ve made a true decision to change your life and this is the way forward that you’re going to take.

Some examples of desires could be:

• I want to be slim
• I want to be healthy
• I want to be rich
• I want to be caring
• I want a committed relationship
• I want more options in life
• I want a job that where I can grow and develop

Resolve

The thing about life changing days is that they do, in fact, change your life. They aren’t the moments in time when you think something would be nice to do, they are the ones when you make a change that produces results that shift your life into a completely new plane of existence.

In order to make your decisions and desires truly life changing you need to have resolve. You will do X Y and Z until….

• I have lost 40lbs
• Learnt to dance
• Made my first £/$ 1,000,000
• Finished my book
• Found the job I love to do

It’s important that when you’re talking about resolve that you talk in terms of “I will…..until…..” This is far more powerful than saying “I’d like to do…….sometime after…..” Vague inputs in life produce vague results. Remember that.

And remember you’ve made a true decision so you’ve already cut off all other possiblities so saying “I will…..until…..” will be a lot easier than you think.

So I challenge you to think about the things in your life that you’ve had enough of, that you’ve gotten upset or angry over for the last time, or that you’re tired of and create a life changing day today.

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