6 Steps to Change

Here are six steps that can help you acknowledge what it is you want to change. Go through each step in your power thinking journal. Make these change come alive.

• Make a “more” list

List the things you already have in your life that you want more of: meditation, spy novels, sex, sports, or time to chill with a beer? Do not judge or edit your ideas. Wanting to enjoy your life does not make you greedy or hedonistic.

• Make a “want” list

List the things you don’t have that you want, from inner peace to ivory curtains to invisible braces. Again, do not judge or edit your thoughts.

• Make a “fantasy changes” list

List all the things you would change in your life if you knew that it was possible. Do not be concerned how far-fetched your ideas might be.

• Engage “ponder power”

Review your lists. What stands out? What are you instinctively drawn to focus on? What changes are just crying out to be made?

• Choose and decide

Choose what you want to change and decide to change it-even if you do not yet know how. Making the decision is a powerful first step in itself.

• Stay connected

Keep change at the forefront of your mind by reviewing your lists daily. Add and delete things. Change will happen more easily and quickly than you anticipate if you focus and refocus on what you have written down.