{"id":237,"date":"2014-10-20T00:43:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T00:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/becausethisisyourlife\/?p=237"},"modified":"2014-10-20T00:43:49","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T00:43:49","slug":"what-happens-if-nothing-changes-in-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/becausethisisyourlife\/2014\/10\/what-happens-if-nothing-changes-in-your-life.html","title":{"rendered":"What Happens If Nothing Changes In Your Life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No matter how you look at it&#8230;it&#8217;s true<\/p>\n<p>And there&#8217;s a scary part to it&#8230;and possibly the feeling of security as well.<\/p>\n<p>It just depends on you.<\/p>\n<p>Along with this comes the strangest part of all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The fact that you can know the &#8220;scary part&#8221; is going on in your life and still be content&#8230;even though it leaves you feeling like there&#8217;s no way out.<\/p>\n<p>So what am I talking about?<\/p>\n<p>Your life&#8230;and the path it&#8217;s going down.<\/p>\n<p>Now if you happen to be somebody that is not feeling fulfilled in your life&#8230;and know it&#8217;s time to do something about it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Yet&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You still find yourself not doing anything about it&#8230;and watching the same old thing go by day after day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s stopping you from doing anything about it?<\/p>\n<p>After all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If today was your last day on this planet, is this how you would want your last 24 hours to be?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s say today wasn&#8217;t the last day of your life&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What happens if nothing changes in your life?<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Decision diamonds-<\/strong> Life wouldn&#8217;t be life without decisions. Of course that&#8217;s pretty obvious. And this also includes the decisions you didn&#8217;t make&#8230;the ones that quite often leave you saying, &#8220;I wish I _________&#8221; or &#8220;My life would have been better off if I had only done _________.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What isn&#8217;t so obvious and goes unnoticed is what&#8217;s really going on during all of these decisions you made and didn&#8217;t make.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s two things going on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>One, every decision you make has an equal amount of benefits and drawbacks. At first it seems like &#8220;no way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When you take the time to scan through your life and look closely&#8230;while being honest with yourself&#8230;you&#8217;ll see this pretty easily.<\/p>\n<p>And two, as a result&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll realize there&#8217;s no such things as mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>See, all of what I just said comes down to knowing what your values are. Or said another way, knowing what it is that&#8217;s most important to you&#8230;what you &#8220;love&#8221; and are &#8220;inspired&#8221; to be doing.<\/p>\n<p>Because when you realize this you&#8217;ll know what I said above&#8230;you&#8217;ll see the benefits and drawbacks to the decisions you made&#8230;equally.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s this that gives you the courage to be confident in being more certain about making decisions that in the past you would have hesitated on&#8230;or not made at all.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first step to turning your life around and leads in to the next part&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. The people pleasing syndrome-<\/strong> Whether you&#8217;re aware of it or not&#8230;and most people aren&#8217;t aware of it&#8230;the situations you&#8217;re currently in that you don&#8217;t want to be in has much to do with you wanting to please people.<\/p>\n<p>For example&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I know of a &#8220;then&#8221; attorney that did everything in his life just trying to please his father.<\/p>\n<p>He became an attorney because his father wanted him to. He got married to a certain woman because his father wanted him to. Where he lived was where his father wanted him to live.<\/p>\n<p>And no matter what he did to gain the approval of his father&#8230;it was never enough.<\/p>\n<p>As a result&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This man&#8217;s health got to the point where he suffered a heart attack. After his father passed away he found out his father left him with unpaid debts. This led to his law practice going out of business&#8230;which led to his wife leaving him and taking the kids.<\/p>\n<p>It reached the point where he was basically ready to take his own life.<\/p>\n<p>And then he realized with his father gone&#8230;there was no one left to please anymore.<\/p>\n<p>This was a revelation for him that turned his life around.<\/p>\n<p>He realized that practicing law wasn&#8217;t what he loved&#8230;and that the woman he married wasn&#8217;t the type of woman he wanted to be with.<\/p>\n<p>And this gave him a new lease on life to do what he truly loved&#8230;fixing up classic cars and selling them.<\/p>\n<p>So now he was doing what he loved and what also happened&#8230;he met a new woman that was his &#8220;perfect&#8221; match and they ended up getting married.<\/p>\n<p>What it all comes down to is this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So many people are so worried about wanting to please others they&#8217;re infatuated with&#8230;they&#8217;ll do anything to follow through on it&#8230;even if it means &#8220;mortgaging&#8221; their life away.<\/p>\n<p>And strange as it sounds&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the infatuating over someone that&#8217;s at the root cause of it all.<\/p>\n<p>Because after all, do you ever find yourself wanting to please someone you resent and despise&#8230;of course not.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to breaking the &#8220;people pleasing syndrome&#8221;, just know that no matter what you do you&#8217;ll have people liking and disliking&#8230;supporting and challenging&#8230;praising and criticizing you&#8230;equally.<\/p>\n<p>And this includes friends, acquaintances, strangers, and certainly family.<\/p>\n<p>Be mindful of this and stand your ground because it&#8217;s the very thing needed for you to turn your life around.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of your life&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. What is your life-<\/strong> I&#8217;m sure you already know that life&#8230;especially your life&#8230;is about change. Now at first you&#8217;re likely to think it&#8217;s about changing for the &#8220;better&#8221; or &#8220;worse&#8221;&#8230;right? Because after all this is the conventional wisdom you always hear.<\/p>\n<p>Yet&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not true.<\/p>\n<p>And the reason your life is not about changing for the &#8220;better&#8221; or &#8220;worse&#8221; goes back to what I said earlier&#8230;there&#8217;s an equal amount of benefits and drawbacks to every situation you come across.<\/p>\n<p>The same is true about changing your life around.<\/p>\n<p>Your life is about knowing what it is that you&#8217;d love to be, do, and have.<\/p>\n<p>Once you know what this is you&#8217;ve answered the question, &#8220;what is your life?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course your answer is going to be different than somebody elses because you&#8217;re unique.<\/p>\n<p>Along with this also remember&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>All humans have every trait (4600 total that are positive and negative). But it&#8217;s the way you express these traits based on your uniqueness and what you&#8217;re here to be, do, and have is what defines what your life is.<\/p>\n<p>And once you know what your life is, you&#8217;ll also know what you want to be remembered for.<\/p>\n<p>Because when you get right down to it&#8230;there&#8217;s something inside of you that you want the world to see&#8230;that leads to what you want to be remembered for.<\/p>\n<p>And in doing so you want to keep asking &#8220;why.&#8221; Because when you have enough reasons &#8220;why&#8221; in what you want&#8230;and there&#8217;s enough pain from how your life will turn out if you don&#8217;t do anything about it&#8230;and you know what you &#8220;love&#8221; doing&#8230;while not worrying about what others think of you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll turn your life around.<\/p>\n<p>Along with it you&#8217;ll discover how your magnificence and brilliance is a special gift to the world in a way that serves both you and others to be the change you seek in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No matter how you look at it&#8230;it&#8217;s true And there&#8217;s a scary part to it&#8230;and possibly the feeling of security as well. 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