Self Improvement Made Easy

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could flick a switch to change your life? Or if you could simply press a button to achieve your ideal life? Well, if you look around the web a little – not much searching required, you will come across plenty of personal development websites that suggest that changing your life can be just that easy. Naturally, there is no quick fix when it comes to living your dream – if it were so everyone would be doing it. But even though there’s no magic button that you can push, even though your life won’t change in a single mouse-click, in fact, personal development or self improvement is a little bit like tuning in an old-fashioned radio. But like old-fashioned radios, the signal keeps coming and going, you have to keep fine-tuning.

On the other hand, our mind is tuned out – or, perhaps, more like completely turned off! Psychology tells us that the normal mind is about 1% tuned in to the only place and time where life is lived – the present moment. Most of your attention – and you’re not even aware of it – is focused on the things that you learned about yourself when you were a child. These are the reference points that your subconscious mind uses to create your all-too-automatic reactions that everything that you think is going on around you. And, as I said, you’re not aware of it at all.

However, life is happening before your very eyes and you’re trying to listen to life’s radio station but getting nothing but noise. That’s because you’re not paying attention. If you want to change your life, you’re going to have to re-learn how to pay attention to what’s really going on now – this is how to tune in and transform your life. I use the word “re-learn” because, when you were a child, you were expert at paying attention – perhaps not at school because maybe school didn’t turn you on – but, when you were even younger, when, for example, you got a new toy, you gave it and possibly the box it came, in all of your attention. You examined it, looked at it inside out, smelled it, licked it, shook it, held it up to your ear – you used all of your senses to fully experience the new toy. Each moment is like that new toy – to fully experience what’s going on, you’re going to have to see it, feel it, hear it, smell it and taste it as if you’d never come across anything quite like it before. And, of course, you haven’t because every moment is a unique one-off.

For sure, changing your life is as simple as tuning in. The one glitch, however, is that the radio signal keeps coming and going – you’re going to have to learn to keep tuning yourself in. Why not start each and every day with five minutes fine-tuning?