Shake up your life: how to change your own perspective

The one thing you need to get some new action (and thus, some new results) is to change your mindset. Paradigm shift, perspective shift, new insight, it doesn't matter what you call it, the result is the same. You start to look at the world a little differently or at least your problems a little differently and you start to take some new and different actions.

Your entire life doesn't usually change overnight, but your perspective can shift in less than a few minutes. In fact it usually only takes one idea or sentence to send the dominoes cascading towards your new future. Okay, okay, but "how do I DO that??" you are probably asking. The answer is this: LISTEN TO NEW IDEAS!!!

If you're stuck in a rut with your thinking, then you need someone to talk you out of it. You can't even get convinced to get up and go for a walk without the right idea being in your head. It's important to feed the mind something positive every day. Find an audiobook, listen to a motivational talk on the internet, go to the library or bookstore, order a book off of Amazon, but whatever you do, LISTEN TO NEW IDEAS!

You won't always agree with everyone else's ideas but they should make you think and that is the key. You need to start asking better question in your life about how to get to where you want to be. A question like "how can I enjoy this process?" has much more value than one like "why does this always happen to me?". Your brain provided an answer to both of those question if you were paying attention. Ask question that give you helpful answers. Similarly, use ideas to get you thinking and don't just blindly accept any concept that comes your way, actually THINK about it.

I will give you one more simple tip to change your perspective and it is actually a shortcut. I had to save it until the end because you just wouldn't believe me if I told you right away. Well here it is, CHANGE YOUR PHYSIOLOGY! Think about it, if you're over tired do you feel more or less motivated? Do you feel more or less energized when you are dehydrated? Do you feel conquering the world after 6 beers and cheese dip or after you go for a one mile run?

Here is the key to this, if you put your body into an energized state you will have a more positive mindset. Yoga does this, martial arts does this, aerobics class does this, deep breathing does this, power poses have even been scientifically shown to change your hormone levels and to increase testosterone. I want you to consider using both physiology change AND a philosophy change, because that will be the most powerful.

You have in you hands simple but powerful tools to cause a shift in your mindset. Use them! Nobody can do that for you but you can easily do it for yourself, and what's more, you can learn to enjoy the process so that the you that you want to become, can become the you that you already are, NOW!