The Lifestyleguy's 7th Commandment

(7) Emotions and feelings need to be heeded, listen to what they are telling you.

Emotions and feelings are like little warning bells telling you that something needs addressing in your life.

For example, if you are having anxious feelings regarding an upcoming meeting or presentation, listen to what your “unconscious” mind is trying to tell you.

It’s not necessarily a “bad thing”. Perhaps it’s trying to tell you haven’t prepared enough.

Listen to its message, address and let it go.

One of my favourite comic book characters is Spiderman and one of the things that lets him know when he is in danger or something that he needs to pay attention to is occurring, his “spider sense” starts to “tingle”.

Now you don’t have to be a comic book character to have that inborn sense or “tingling”.
We all have that feeling of the “hairs standing up on the back of our necks” or a massive “palpitation” or heartbeat, or just an feeling of being “anxious”!

These are all natural processes that the body and mind have evolved over time to let you know that something needs to be looked at or sorted.

Perhaps the “hairs standing up on the back of your neck” means that you are very uncomfortable going into a certain situation. The anxiety and palpitations could be caused by fear, tiredness, too much caffeine.
Maybe you’re smoking too much, or you’re worried about impending events.

One thing is certain in all these situations, your body and your unconscious mind knows you inside out and it’s telling you something, listen to it!

The Lifestyle Guy's 6th commandment

(6) Consistency is the key to everything.

Only by doing something on a regular basis will you be able to attain anything in life.

FACT!

Consistency is like a regular rehearsal, it sets and forms new neural pathways within your brain, making the task easier and more fulfilling and pleasurable every time you do it.

It’s like taking small steps.

Remember Confucius: “A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step”.

What he should have added, was that you also need to keep walking on a regular basis.

Think about it, even when you get up in the morning you have certain rituals that you have to go through to begin your day.

You get up, you go to the loo, clean your teeth, shower, have breakfast, get dressed, travel to work, look after the children.

Whatever you have to do to start your day!

This is an unconscious and ritualistic part of your life that is “consistent”.

If you ever find yourself breaking that “constant” you will probably find that things don’t seem to follow your normal pattern for the rest of the day.

To do anything well or to achieve some goal on a regular basis or to move closer to what you desire things need to be done consistently!

That is, rehearsed on a regular basis so it becomes a much a part of you as cleaning your teeth.

Once you start to be “consistent” it will make your new behaviour become familiar to you.