Change

Did you undertake yesterday's writing exercise? Are you looking forward to receiving "your" letter? It's interesting - as a writer I often find I "find" new things in my writing after a gap of writing and re-reading / editing. Sometimes grammatical errors and spelling mistakes (but that sometimes happens even to the best of us). But more often than not - new insights, new ways of looking at something, and quite often the thought "wow, did I write that?"

So, yes I have to admit, I am looking forward to hearing what I had to say about myself and my personal state of mind when my letter arrives in the next day or so.

And the reason is both simple and complicated. It will tell me what I was focussing on at that particular point in time. It will tell me what I need to be focussing on and what changes I need to make. I do remember not pulling any punches when doing the writing part ... so am expecting to be whacked between the eyes when I get to read my thoughts again.

If you are willing to question, if you are willing to observe, and if you are willing to make one small change today, then tomorrow will be an opportunity to grow, change and develop even more.

Consider this amazing fact. If you are willing to make one simple change to your life every week for the next year - you will have made 52 life changes. What can those changes be? Anything from reading one book, going to bed a half hour earlier, watching one hour less of night time television, making a decision to eat dinner as a family, watching a movie you would not normally consider watching; to eating an apple extra a day, saving the money you would have spent on coffee this morning and saving it instead; to writing a letter to someone you haven't written to in a while; to deciding to say no to going out on a drinking binge. One change each week - its not hard to make one change each week. Of course if you would like to up the ante and make a change each day - well then you have certainly made a commitment to a brand new you.