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What is it you really want- 3 questions to succeed with your decisions

Dear
I do not know about you but I myself have a lot of times attempted to change certain things without it succeeded., Does it sound like anything you've ever tried   ?I do not know how many times I've said to myself, Christina, now it is time to stop eating candy! Yes, just until I find myself opening the cupboard of candy. Okay it is not a whole cupboard full of candy, just a small box or I face myself in the supermarket, hiding my candy beneath the vegetables, convincing myself I'm so healthy!Maybe you know it, maybe not or maybe it's in a completely different area of ​​your life where you repeatedly have tried to change something without it succeeded.Your outer life is a direct reflection of your inner life. When you repeatedly find yourself unable to make persistent changes in your life, it's because you have an underlying commitment/ a hidden agreement with yourself, that there is something else you'd rather have.Let me give you an example from real life.
One of my Clients really wanted to be financially independent. But she never saved up and she made many impulse buying. When we took a closer look at it, it  appeared that the choices she made were associated with an underlying commitment:
she would rather enjoy life and she wanted to do as it suited her when it suited her.
Had she been most committed to achieving financial freedom, then her handling of money had been different. With that awareness, she's now capable of making a conscious decision and a choice propelling her to become financially independent or she can chose to have the instantaneous pleasure!We have all these hidden agreements, theese underlying commitments with ourselves that prevents us from changing things and changing old habits. Often, the only thing we have to do is to become aware of them. Because when you get the awareness, you have the ability to make some choices that supports you in your decisions and your goals.There are a few questions you can use and like anything else in life is about choices. You have a choice to do as usual or you can make a choice  to do otherwise.Next time you promise yourself to start jogging, eathealthier, quit smoking, see your friends more, be more focused, be happier, respect and love yourself more, etc. and then you find yourself doing something completely different, like lying on the couch, you eat less healthy, you smoke again, or that you sit home alone and feel sad about it, then ask yourself the following Questions:

  1. Will this choice bring me long-term fulfillment or will it bring me short -term gratification ?
  2. Will this choice propel me toward and inspiring future or will it keep me stuck in the past? 
  3. Is this an act of self-love or an act of self- sabotage

Perhaps you are thinking it is too confusing or too much to ask yourself the questions all the time .. Yes that's right, it could be or it could be something you're practising the next couple of weeks and see what it means to you when and if you actually figure out what underlying commitment you hold on to and that's preventing or sabotaging your success? How much more could you achieve?I always recommend you to take one step at a time and the first step is awareness.
And just one last thing: when you "fail" which we alldo, then just start over again instead of giving up. "If you never failed, you never lived" Watch the inspirational video here 

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