Reaching Your Outer Limits

Reaching Your Outer Limits

Change is often scary, while the familiar is comfy, but rarely exciting, inspiring or earth shaking. Do you find yourself talking about altering your life style, habits and patterns, but rarely taking the necessary steps to make it happen?

If you feel it's time to budge a bit from your comfort zone, it may be easier than you think:

• Innovate – establish yourself as the source that others come to for suggestions, interesting ideas, and a purveyor of knowledge, willing to share your wisdom, information and expertise.

• Welcome change – whether it's as mundane as trying a new restaurant or a bolder move like starting a new career.

• Weekly commitment – choose one thing that you're usually stymied by, break it down into smaller, manageable tasks, and just do it!

• Mini retreats – take daily 5 minute mental vacations. Visualize a place you've visited, would like to visit, someone you love to be with, or something you enjoy doing and delight in imagining yourself in this situation.

• Read, read, read – knowledge is indeed power and information about a variety of subjects makes your opinions interesting, inspiring and sought after.

• Self limitation - what are the main things, in specific areas of your life, which are holding you back? Decide what concrete plans you can make to successfully tackle them.

• Rise at dawn – make a commitment to get up at sunrise one day a week and note how many additional things you can accomplish.

• The risk factor – when deciding about different courses of action to take, choose the more daring one. What was the outcome?

• A helping hand – extend yourself by volunteering, building a community (actual or virtual), nurturing diverse types of relationships and cultivating new associations (this is sure to be as beneficial to you as it is to others).

• Envisioning – try to visualize yourself as an explorer, finding out about the hidden treasures of your neighborhood, your family history, visiting foreign countries, etc.

And remember, taking action is the catalyst for change!