Willingness to Change Your Habits

Our ability to create positive change without willingness is effectively pointless. We are forcing an unnatural and undesirable change that could otherwise be simplified and made much more enjoyable. Willingness is your level of preparedness and desire to change.

I would have never stopped drinking alcohol had it not been for my willingness to create a better way of life and find a way to live without drinking on a daily basis. I did not want to become willing to live without the use of this potentially deadly (if abused) substance let alone commit to working a program that would transform every aspect of my life.

The good news is that I did become willing to listen to others, take direction and so can you. You can become willing at any moment of any day for any reason. This small change can open the door to making the once impossible now possible.

“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” - Jim Rohn

Steps to Become Willing for Change

1. Reflect: Are the actions you are currently taking moving you closer to your goals? Have you been able to successfully break your habits without the help of others that have done so in the past?
   
2. Identify Pain in Not Changing: What situations has your habit created that could have been avoided? How does your habit make you feel? Is your habit serving you?
   
3. Identify the Pleasure in Changing: What will be the benefits of taking direction and being truly willing to implement this change in your life?
   
4. Get Comfortable with the Uncomfortable: Change is often times easier to talk about than it is to walk about. What I mean is that we find it easier to say we are going to change at some point in the future before we are actually willing to make the change.
   
5. Share Your Desire to Change With Someone: Creating accountability is one of the most powerful tools for becoming willing to go to any lengths to reach your desired outcome. Yes! Sharing your thoughts and desires with others can be uncomfortable, but it is certain to allow you to succeed much faster than otherwise.
   

Prepare yourself for your new way of life by emptying your mind of your limiting thoughts. These are thoughts that disempower you and make you feel as though change is not something you are capable of. Again, if I can make positive change so can you.

Do not spend too much time worrying about what could go wrong if you do change. Focus on what will go right and you will likely create that as an actual outcome.

“If you want something you have never had, then you must be willing to do things you have never done.” - Thomas Jefferson

If you really want to change then you will be willing to go to any measures to make a change. A lack of willingness is a lack of ability to truly change. After you have have become will then you are ready to break your habits that are no longer serving you.

Summit as friends!
Scott Rowley

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