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19/03/2019 by Lisa McDonald Leave a Comment

Spicing Up Your Habits

Spicing Up Your Habits

It’s been a little while since I posted.  That’s because in the past month I’ve been spending some really focused time working on my upcoming book.  It’s taking longer than I anticipated, and is certainly providing lots of opportunities to learn along the way.  (Click here to learn more about my book).

Today I’m back in the office after an enjoyable couple of weeks away in Western Australia with my husband and son.  It was wonderful to be able to spend time visiting family and friends, relaxing with diverse travel and leisure activities.  It provided a great break away from my book writing , and other regular habits and activities.

Variety is the Spice of life

Visiting different places and doing different activities, can be a great way to reinvigorate the mind, body and spirit.  It shifts your focus away from habits and towards the unfamiliar.  In doing so it creates space for freshening up your perspective.

While we were in Perth, we visited the impressive Sculpture by the Sea event https://sculpturebythesea.com/cottesloe/ at scenic Cottesloe Beach.  Every year sculptors/exhibitors spend months planning and creating their artistic piece, which is then displayed for all the public to see. (It’s a free event.)

Weird or wonderful?

Whether an art piece is weird or wonderful, good or bad or not, is in the eye of the beholder.  Each piece offers the observer the opportunity to interpret the art themselves.

How we judge the art is based on our own internal measuring sticks, the library of references in our mind.  This library is created through our own memories, experiences and emotions, and what we have learned from others.  The mind uses it to filter the information we see, hear and feel.  It shapes the way we think, feel and act, and therefore our results.

Tweaking your habits to create new results

When you’re dissatisfied with your results, it’s a sign that you need to tweak your library of references and change what’s limiting you.  A holiday is a great way to start the process of tweaking your references.  But you will likely need to do other work to identify these references in order to retrain your mind and body by implementing different habits.  With persistence and consistency,  your results should begin to change.   If not, further work may be required to achieve success.

Do you have an important decision to make or goal to achieve?  If you’d like some help to shift your perspective and habits so you can achieve different results, I’d love to help you.  You can find out more by clicking here:  to book a chat with me.

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