Tomorrow marks day one of the 90 day clean living challenge. Feeling excited!
To those of you who have decided to join me on this journey, thank you.
For my first post, I thought about writing down all the reasons to complete this 90 day clean living challenge. I ended up deciding that was unoriginal and boring. I don’t want to focus on the details that brought me to this point, I want to focus on how to move forward in a positive and productive dialogue. This challenge is about changing the way I see the world, how I interact with it and it’s about sharing a new positive perspective with the people in my life.
I have a nice life. I have a solid job. I own my own lovely home. I have friends and family I can count on. I'm healthy! In fact, I am in the best shape I've ever been in! It's my mental health that I want to focus on now. I've spent a lot of time perfecting my external circumstances but zero time or energy has been spent on improving my mind or the way I think about things. I want to be more positive, I want to be more grateful. I want to live more in the moment and not get caught up in negative thought cycles.
There is so much negative influence around us every day. All the news I hear and see is so sad and so dark that it actually hurts my heart. I want to put a filter on that negativity and take control of my own thought process. I feel I am being bombarded with so much negative messaging that it’s impossible to feel positive and in the digital environment we live in its impossible to turn it off. I feel angry, frustrated and to be totally honest, somedays I really hate people. Somedays I even hate myself for feeding into it all.
Over the past few weeks I’ve been reaching happiness projects. I plan to do a lot more of that starting tomorrow. I was first inspired to begin this journey by a book that I read before the annual leadership summit. The book is called ‘The Happiness Equation’, written by Neil Pasricha. It was at his keynote speech that the term Happiness Revolution popped into my mind. His outlook and discipline in life greatly inspired me. Look him up! Anyways, what I've learned in my research so far, is that it only takes a few small changes to make a big impact and change your life greatly. The trick is to make a change and stick with it. Make some new good habits and ditch a couple bad ones. It seems like common sense, I know. But with all the distractions and 'easy ways out' we have influencing us, it’s very challenging to stick to a new and possibly uncomfortable plan.
I want this blog to be place to share the small things I'm doing to make a big change in my life. Maybe it will rub off on a few others. Maybe if I can impact one or two people, they can inspire a couple more people and so on and so on! Or maybe not, but it's a good way for me to track my own progress. I know I'm going to have some challenging days ahead. I know I will miss some of my vices. I know I’m going to feel lonely, angry and maybe even bored at times, but I need this.
It’s time to get a bit uncomfortable for a greater cause. I need a good shake up to move to another level of awareness and consciousness. I am ready for a new challenge and I’m ready to learn new things about the world. I’m ready to learn new things about myself. I’m ready to do the work to be authentically happy from the inside out.
If there is anyone out there following along, feel free to add your comments and insights!
To those of you who have decided to join me on this journey, thank you.
For my first post, I thought about writing down all the reasons to complete this 90 day clean living challenge. I ended up deciding that was unoriginal and boring. I don’t want to focus on the details that brought me to this point, I want to focus on how to move forward in a positive and productive dialogue. This challenge is about changing the way I see the world, how I interact with it and it’s about sharing a new positive perspective with the people in my life.
I have a nice life. I have a solid job. I own my own lovely home. I have friends and family I can count on. I'm healthy! In fact, I am in the best shape I've ever been in! It's my mental health that I want to focus on now. I've spent a lot of time perfecting my external circumstances but zero time or energy has been spent on improving my mind or the way I think about things. I want to be more positive, I want to be more grateful. I want to live more in the moment and not get caught up in negative thought cycles.
There is so much negative influence around us every day. All the news I hear and see is so sad and so dark that it actually hurts my heart. I want to put a filter on that negativity and take control of my own thought process. I feel I am being bombarded with so much negative messaging that it’s impossible to feel positive and in the digital environment we live in its impossible to turn it off. I feel angry, frustrated and to be totally honest, somedays I really hate people. Somedays I even hate myself for feeding into it all.
Over the past few weeks I’ve been reaching happiness projects. I plan to do a lot more of that starting tomorrow. I was first inspired to begin this journey by a book that I read before the annual leadership summit. The book is called ‘The Happiness Equation’, written by Neil Pasricha. It was at his keynote speech that the term Happiness Revolution popped into my mind. His outlook and discipline in life greatly inspired me. Look him up! Anyways, what I've learned in my research so far, is that it only takes a few small changes to make a big impact and change your life greatly. The trick is to make a change and stick with it. Make some new good habits and ditch a couple bad ones. It seems like common sense, I know. But with all the distractions and 'easy ways out' we have influencing us, it’s very challenging to stick to a new and possibly uncomfortable plan.
I want this blog to be place to share the small things I'm doing to make a big change in my life. Maybe it will rub off on a few others. Maybe if I can impact one or two people, they can inspire a couple more people and so on and so on! Or maybe not, but it's a good way for me to track my own progress. I know I'm going to have some challenging days ahead. I know I will miss some of my vices. I know I’m going to feel lonely, angry and maybe even bored at times, but I need this.
It’s time to get a bit uncomfortable for a greater cause. I need a good shake up to move to another level of awareness and consciousness. I am ready for a new challenge and I’m ready to learn new things about the world. I’m ready to learn new things about myself. I’m ready to do the work to be authentically happy from the inside out.
If there is anyone out there following along, feel free to add your comments and insights!
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