This Is the Only Way Your Life Will Ever Be Better

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Imagine this: Every morning, you get up, go to the kitchen and put on a pot of coffee. While that’s brewing, you haul out a frying pan, put it on some heat and chuck in some butter.

Next, you get a little bowl. You throw in an egg, a bit of milk and a pinch of salt. You mix it all up, drop a piece of bread in the bowl, flip it over to coat both sides, and once that butter is melted, you place the bread in the pan.

After a few minutes, it’s golden on the bottom so you flip it over. When the second side is also cooked, the bread goes on a plate and you cover it with jam and a light dusting of icing sugar (or perhaps you’d prefer syrup on yours).

Coffee’s ready now so you pour a cup before sitting down and eating your French toast for breakfast.

You do this every day. Every day. Same thing.

One day, it occurs to you that you’d really love bacon and a fried egg. Or a bowl of soup. Or fresh muffins.

Somehow, none of those ever appears while you’re melting the butter in the pan, mixing the egg and milk, soaking the bread and cooking it every morning. Your breakfast always turns out to be French toast and coffee.

Hmm. Go figure.

The Desire for Change

Are you dissatisfied with your job? Do you keep saying the same things over and over again in an effort to resolve problems with your partner, your parent, a friend or your child?

Do you feel discontented, restless, stuck and frustrated, knowing something needs to change but then not doing anything toward changing it?

Well, as long as you don’t change it, it won’t change. Unless, of course, someone else changes something first and it has a direct impact on you. But if you’re going to wait for that, you might be waiting till they’re selling ice cream in The Very Hot Place.

Where Do You Start?

If your words aren’t being heard and the problems are not being resolved, find different words, a different approach, another tactic. If you hate your job, start looking for a new one or turn a hobby into a business on the side and build it up over time.

Take a course online. Go back to school. Join networking groups and look for new opportunities.

If you’re fed up with being out of shape and overweight, change what you eat. Walk more. Increase your activity.

If you’re tired of doing the same old things (and oh, shock of shocks, getting the same results), then find something new to do. I promise, there’s no shortage of possibilities.

The bottom line is this: If you want your life to change, you have to change your life.

The possibilities for ways to improve it, to get it moving, or make it better, are endless.

But one thing’s for sure:

If you keep doing what you’re doing, you’ll keep getting what you’ve got.

And that will never change.

Spiritual Arts Mentor and Master Teacher, Liberty Forrest, guides you in discovering who you are, why you’re here, and how to follow that path.