There Are Two Ways to Change Your Life — Only One is Right

How to make your future bigger than your past.

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It can feel impossible to move your life forward. There are seemingly infinite constraints on your time and circumstances. In your head, there are a thousand and one obstacles holding you back.

So, how do you change? How do you transform your life when it feels like the world is working against you?

Most people mistakenly believe that what they need is another book — they need another idea, another strategy, or hack.

However, no change is rational — it’s emotional. You generally act not based on what you know is right, but how you want to feel in the moment.

Hence, the instinct is to act on impulse and addiction, followed by internal conflict and regret. Said Darren Hardy,

“Nothing creates more stress than when our actions and behaviors aren’t congruent with our values.”

Indeed, no amount of information alone — no matter how good, will change your life.

Instead, the only way to change is to begin acting in ways that are more reflective of the emotions you want to experience in the future, rather than reliving the emotions of…