A Little Change Can Go A Long Way

 If you look at your every day life, you will notice regular patterns (habits) that govern you. Your routines produce results. What results will your life patterns produce? Basically the same thing you've been experiencing for a long time.

 A funny thing about people is how they want something different or an improved level of success, yet they continue to do the same thing over and over again. Guess what? If you keep doing the same thing, you will always produce the same result. It doesn't matter what the "same thing" is for you, if you keep doing it, you will continue getting more of what you already have.

 If you're doing unhealthy things (physically, monetarily, emotionally, etc.) you will produce unhealthy outcomes. If you change, even just a little, you could get significantly different results. The product of your habits-good or bad, is determined by you. So, if you aren't living the life you desire, if you aren't accomplishing the things you want in your life, change your habits a little and you will amaze yourself with the results!

 Look at your daily routines. Are they producing the life and results your desire? If not, why don't you make some decisions to change them? Why don't you change your habits to coincide with your desires to create the life you want? The decision is up to you and the resultant life is up to you to create.

 A good life doesn't just happen or drop from the sky on your lap. No, a good life is created and built by each successful individual. Successful people don't stand-back, looking over their accomplishments and say, "Wow! How did all of this prosperity occur?" No. A successful person will enjoy assessing his accomplishments, knowing very well that it was he who worked hard to achieve his goal. It wasn't luck or anything resembling the same. The successful person decided what he wanted; made a plan with action steps; established the necessary habits to achieve the action steps; worked his plan with the appropriate habits and soon, success was inevitable. It always works that way for everyone.

 Good habits=Good results and the desired outcome

Bad habits=Bad results and an undesired outcome

 There is good news for anyone who is reading this newsletter and wants more out of life, "A little change can go a long way." That's right. Even, if you change your daily habits just a little, you can improve your life and level of success significantly.

 Some examples of a little change going a long way are as follows: 

• Instead of watching hours of TV, limit your viewing time.
• Instead of associating with negative people regularly and randomly (even family members), choose when, how, and if, you will interact with adverse individuals.
• Instead of spending money and rewarding yourself on an impulsive basis, pre-plan your spending and give yourself rewards or gifts for accomplishing specific things in life.
• Instead of consistently over indulging in drink or food, reduce the amount, even slightly, and you will improve your health significantly.
• Instead of checking your emails or surfing the web during your work day, designate specific times to do these things.
• Instead of procrastinating the work you know should get done, do it now by confronting it and completing the task regardless of whether you feel like it or not.

 Of course, the list can go on an on, but it is up to each individual to analyze his or her own life's ritual activities to discover where the adverse habits are occurring that are getting in the way to greater success. Observe your regular habits that are in the way and make a decision to change just a few of them to be more in line with what you want to accomplish. You will be amazed with the results. A little change can produce BIG success!

 If you choose not to change, then you can continue to expect the same life you are living today. I trust that most intelligent people that are reading this newsletter will say, "I'm ready to make some little changes in my life. I'm tired of just talking or thinking about more success and want to start doing something about it."

 Why not Do It Now? Take a moment and look over your day and identify three habits that are getting in the way to a better life. Out of these three things, decide which one of them you can eliminate or change starting today. Commit to this change for a specified period of time (at least 30-days) and then, review your results at the end of this period. You will amaze yourself! If you like the new level of success you are living as a result of your positive change, you may want to repeat this process of eliminating another adverse habit.

 As always, the suggestions I'm making in this newsletter are not that elaborate or complicated but the results are monumental. Please let me know the great things that occur in your life as a result of experiencing how "A little change can go a long way."

 Until we talk again in the near future, I am 

In loving service,
Dr. Michael J. Duckett