But so few people truly live life to the fullest because they don’t have the right habits and rituals for success. This leads to a frustrating and unfilling life for so many.

If your life is starting to go in a direction you don’t want. It’s up to you to take action. No one is coming to save you.

You have to become your own superhero, take control of your life now.

Here’s how you can change your life completely:

1. Feed Your Mind Inspiring Content | How To Change Your Life

The world is filled with negative, clickbait headlines to take advantage of the fear center of your brain. That’s why the old saying, “negative news sells” is 100% true.

How often do you read the news and actually find a positive, uplifting or happy story? Very rarely!

Don’t settle for this kind of garbage content. Instead, utilise positive, uplifting and inspiring resource. Whether it’s motivational videos, positive affirmations or learning lessons from people who have experienced the kind of success you crave.

Feed your mind with inspiration so you can develop the right mindset needed to change your life.

2. Use Your Imagination | How To Change Your Life

The older most people get the less we use our imagination. But when you’re a kid anything is possible with your imagination. Don’t let getting older stop you from using your imagination.

If you can dream it, you can become it. As Jack Canfield said, “A dream wasn’t put in your mind unless you have the capability to fulfill it.”

Use this motto as a way to help you imagine your success before it actually happens. You have to become the person that can fulfill your dreams before it happens.

3. Start Thinking Positively | How To Change Your Life

Your mind is programmed to think more negative than positive thoughts. Studies have shown that 70% or more of all thoughts are negative and around 91% of all thoughts are the same ones as the day before!

You have to become conscious of your thoughts on a regular basis to help you stay positive. Used a mindfulness app or meditation to help you become more aware of your thoughts. Because remember, not all your thoughts are actually your thoughts.

As T Harv Eker said, “Don’t believe a thought you think.” Question your thoughts more and more so you can reprogram yourself. Remember you are not your thoughts, it is possible to develop a more positive and productive mindset.

4. Protect Your Time | How To Change Your Life

If you want to turn your life around, you need to protect your time like your life depends on it. Quit hanging out with people who aren’t making your life better. Stop doing things that doesn’t bring you any long term joy or happiness.

You can always make more money but you can’t make more time. Life goes too quickly so make the most of your time, practice being more organised, start your day early with a plan in place and get rid of the time wasters in your life.

5. Always Keep the Faith | How To Change Your Life

Never forget that other people have achieved massive success from worse circumstances. Never think you can’t achieve greatness as well. There will be enough negative people along the way, don’t become one of them!

Tony Robbins, Oprah Winfrey, and so many others have persevered through difficult times to turn their lives around. So can you! Keep the faith and believe in yourself. Never give up.

Remember, if you want to learn how to change your life completely, you have to start changing your habits and rituals. Start with your mindset as it controls all other parts of your life. All the little things you do every day will stack up and create a huge change when you look back in six months to a year. If you only improve by 1% every day, that’s a 365% increase in one year!

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1. Practice Mindfulness

Mindfulness Meditation has been the most impactful activity I do every single day. If you are looking for a sense of direction, and solid base to build an integral foundation of character.

Meditation teaches you discipline, increases your flow states, and slows down your mind and be conscious of your thoughts and emotions.

Meditation decreases the stress produced by your body and improve the areas of your brain responsible for empathy and love. I used to think meditation was a hippie gimmick as an excuse to sit around and do nothing. Once I started, I soon realized I was wrong and this negative perception of meditation had held me back from experiencing the benefits of it.

Please don’t say “I can’t meditate because I can’t clear my mind”. Of course you can’t you are only human. Mindfulness meditation isn’t about “clearing your head”.

Fearless Motivation recommends Synctuition – The words first 3d Sound Meditation Platform – It is truly amazing.

Give meditation a try and let me know how it works out for you in the comments in a couple weeks!

2. Put Your Head Down and Work

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” — Martin Luther King

Last summer I was moving to New York from Massachusetts. Woke up early at 5 am and packed everything into the U-Haul truck. On the way I stopped by Dunkin Donuts to get coffee. I began thinking to myself “Wow I’m about to drive 4 hours to New York and then move heavy stuff. ”

I stopped myself. Observed myself and the situation that I was in. I told myself “I’m Mark and I’m going to drive for 4 hours. This is it. This is happening.”

I soon realized I was in a Zen state. Driving for hours wasn’t actually bad but I automatically perceived it as something awful and grueling. Right when I changed my mindset on it I was no longer tired or irritated. I was happy because I’m about to go on an awesome adventure!

Moral of the story is, sometimes it’s best to relax, put your head down and do your job. Don’t give yourself the ability to use this event as an excuse for not accomplishing your tasks. You are better than that.

Of course this is not a blanket statement. Some situations we are completely unable to do normal tasks. I also don’t recommend using this advice as a way to do stuff you don’t want to be doing. If you work a 9-5 and you hate your life DON’T use this.

3. Cultivate a Rich Social Network

Your entire identity is based on the people you interact with everyday. Remove the setting and the character is removed.

Hang out with good friends that treat you right and a support system for you. Don’t hang out with people to complain about your life. You can talk about what’s going on with you but make the most of it and focus on how you can change it.

We are social beings. It said that emotional pain is actually treated by your body as worse than physical pain. Isolation is one of the worst things you can for someone’s health and psyche.

Go out with friends that you genuinely like to spend time with. Hang out with winners and people who don’t put you down. Be honest with yourself and your friends will be honest back.

4. Help People

Your life is dictated by brain chemicals. When you get a hug or feel angry those are different chemicals being excreted by your brain to make you feel that way.

We all have biological wiring in our brains that assures we function properly.

Here are some ways Altruism and giving back to others can improve your life by Psychology Today.

• Helps you feel more grateful for what you have – Good deeds are often done for those who are going through a difficult time, the experience can remind you that your own life is actually pretty good. Feel thankful for what you have.
• Distracts you from your own problems – focusing on someone else can actually pull you away from your own problems.
• Improves physical health – research has discovered that helping others can not only improve your mental health, it also can improve your physical well-being. Studies have found that volunteers tend to live longer and often have better physical health than non-volunteers.

5. Tell Yourself: You’re Going to Make It No Matter What

“No matter how bad it is, or how bad it gets I am going to make it” – Les Brown

Think back to the hardest time of your life. Doesn’t seem so bad when you look back at it, right?

Even in the hardest moments in your life when you think your life is imploding it’s (most often) not true. Think back to an even harder time in your life and build your self esteem. I conquered that event. It was very hard but I still made it out on top overtime.

Repeat to yourself “I’m going to make it no matter what” over and over again. Overtime, this will teach you to go above and beyond and conquer your fears and limitations.

6. Create a SWOT analysis of yourself

Note: this method will not work for all people.

One of my favorite methods to use. This method takes scenarios in my head and maps them out on paper to prove how not serious this event is.

List out your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in life.

I recommend taking this a step further and add sub-bullets and examples.

A SWOT analysis allows you to look at your issues objectively and from many different perspectives. I do this when I need clarity on something. Drawing this out with a piece of paper helps my mind abstractly extract ideas and connect the dots.

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In his book The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg introduced the concept of keystone habits: habits that create the foundation for other habits. According to Duhigg, keystone habits lead to following three things.

1. They lead to small wins. Small wins motivate and propel us into putting in more and more effort.
2. They are the soil from which other habits take root.
3. They provide drive and momentum to do more, be more, and achieve more.
   

Here are five keystone habits for a strong mind and a powerful life.

1. Make Your Bed

Making your bed in the morning might seem too mundane, but there’s an underlying benefit you can harness from it. If you make your bed in the morning, you enforce the idea that little things matter in life. And because you took positive action, you get a sense of pride for starting out on the right path. Don’t just make the bed, make it better than anyone else. Don’t just wash the dishes, wash them better than anyone else. Don’t just do your job, do it better than anyone else.

For a strong mind, you need to get small wins throughout the day. And making your bed can be your very first win in the morning.

2. Exercise

Exercise not only improves your physical health but also has a host of benefits for your mental health.  It increases mental clarity, focus, productivity and even makes you more creative. You don’t need to do some hardcore workout every day. Even 30 minutes of vigorous aerobic exercise, such as running, three times a week has the same benefits of a regular moderately intense workout.

Robin Sharma, a renowned life and business coach, says that “if you don’t make time for fitness, you’ll have to make time for illness”. So do yourself a favor, and exercise at least three times a week for a strong mind and a powerful life.

3. Single Tasking

We live in a digital world, a world where everybody keeps their smartphone at arm’s length 24 hours a day. In fact, using your smartphone is the first thing you probably do in the morning.

This behavior tends to seep in into people’s workdays too. They’re checking phones in the middle of working, not realizing that even a short interruption causes a disruption of about 23 minutes in your concentration and about an hour to return to a flow state. Cal Newport, the author of Deep Work says that we need to enter into a flow state to produce work of extraordinary quality, work that is hard to replicate, creates new value, and improves our skill.

Not only working, but if you’re used to being always distracted and not being present in social situations, in work, or even with yourself – then your quality of life is going to decline. For a strong mind and a fruitful life, you need to be present and completely engrossed in whatever you do.

4. Meditate

Research at Harvard has proved that meditation can literally change the brain and is as effective as antidepressants. Regular meditation builds more gray matter in the brain, reduces the activity in the brain’s “me center” – leading to less anxious thoughts and more enjoyment of the present moment.

Long-term meditators have visible changes throughout the entire brain. Moreover, meditation is a powerful tool for self-control. So if you want to be successful, but cannot discipline yourself, start with meditation. For a strong mind, meditation is one of the most powerful practices out there.

5. Goal Setting

Tony Robbins says that “setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into visible.”

Setting goals is important, both to keep yourself motivated and make sure you reach your end goal by setting daily, monthly, and weekly goals. So we recommend that you set daily goals in the morning or the night before.

Once you get used to setting and achieving goals, you’ll realize your own power. You’ll realize that you can change your life, one goal at a time, and become the person you have always dreamed of. For a strong mind, you need to chase goals, because the best moments of our lives happen when we achieve something extraordinary and achieve a worthwhile goal.

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If you’ve been guilty in the past of judging yourself in many situations, it may mean you’re lacking confidence, self-esteem and self-image.

To overcome this issue and live a greater, richer and more fulfilling life, you must silence your inner critic first.

Here’s a fact that you might already have sensed on some level:

The way we talk to ourselves has a TREMENDOUS impact on the reality we experience.

Those who choose empowering meanings will always live in a greater state of wellbeing, and achieve more than those who don’t.

People who are quite simply okay with who they are and where they’re going, regardless of what that looks like right now tend to enjoy MUCH MORE success and happiness in their lives than people who argue often, criticize themselves, and generally feel BAD about who they are and where they’re at right now.

So here’s the question:

WHY IS THIS?

Why do men and women who are comfortable with themselves tend to do SO MUCH BETTER in all areas of their lives than men and women who judge themselves?

The question is how to silence your inner critic?

Well my theory is simple: feeling bad takes up a HUGE amount of ENERGY.

If you’ve invested a lot of energy in feeling shame, worry, anxiety, stress, and self-criticism, you don’t have much left over for the good things in life.

On the other hand, self-acceptance literally CREATES energy, which can then be put to good use in sensing opportunities, open doors, and good fortune.

This isn’t necessarily a conscious thing, that men and women who ‘feel good’ will work harder at furthering themselves and it’s more that life itself naturally seems to ‘loosen up’ for such people, allowing promising events to gain momentum and windows of opportunity to open wider all on their own.

You CAN change your self-talk.

You CAN silence your ‘Inner Critic’.

And you CAN access the incredible wealth of life-abundance that awaits people who’ve learned to unlock their ‘inner contentment potential’!

Loosen Up and Have More Fun – How to Get Rid and Silence Your Inner Critic

You aren’t going to change anything about your world-view by changing what’s happening ‘in your world’.

It doesn’t matter how much money you have – how many cars, careers, houses, or gold-plated walk-in humidors you have.

Neither does it matter how many relationships you have or with whom they are with.

If you want to KILL your inner critic and unleash your own inner JOY, here’s something you ought to know:

It’s an inside job.

First you change your self-talk and then the world changes to match it.

It’s really quite incredible. (It’s also a lot EASIER than earning a million bucks, buying a mansion, or dating the most beautiful human on the planet!)

Is It Time to ‘Get Freudian’? 

When I talk about ‘changing your self-talk’, I’m not talking about ‘therapy’ or seeing a shrink.

This isn’t about putting your feet up on a leather couch and telling someone with a clipboard about your relationship with your father.

In fact, this is something that DOESN’T INVOLVE ANYBODY ELSE AT ALL.

It’s something that only YOU can do.

It’s about being QUIET ENOUGH that you can hear your inner truth the one that’s been there all along.

So what do you have to do?

Well, it’s actually surprisingly SIMPLE.

And fortunately for you, although changes won’t happen QUICKLY, they will happen EASILY.

The more you struggle, the less ‘effect’ you’ll see in other words, you need to learn how to ‘hurry up and wait’ to ‘take the easy road’ for once (which, contrary to the Puritan work ethic of ‘struggle, struggle, struggle’, can be very beneficial for your character!)

So here’s the deal:

When it comes to ‘inner changes’, it’s less about EFFORT than it is about simply PAYING ATTENTION.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Change What You Want To by Noticing How It Is 

Those of you who’ve read Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now will have at least a passing familiarity with the concept of changing what you don’t like simply by noticing how you feel about the way things are.

And yes, this is a theme that you will come across again and again.

NOTE: we didn’t invent this concept (as a matter of fact, it’s so old and used by so many that I’m not sure who, if anyone, can claim original authorship!) but we do all find it very useful – as will you!

So here’s how it applies to YOU and YOUR LIFE:

Your ‘inner self and inner peace’ doesn’t respond well to criticism and negative judgment calls.

In fact, one thing I’ve noticed is that when you try to make a change that’s based on FEAR or NEGATIVITY, it tends to actually stick that undesirable habit firmly into place! Ironic, I know but that seems to just be how most human beings operate.

Let’s take work as an example.

If someone in the workplace is getting out of line, a good manager will know to correct their behavior – not by castigating them, but actually by COMPLIMENTING THEM on something else they’ve done right.

Everything you need is already inside you.

If you want people to respond to you, you don’t bring up what they’re doing ‘wrong’ unless you REALLY, REALLY NEED TO.

Why?

Because calling attention to a ‘bad characteristic’ or a ‘fault’ or a ‘flaw’ actually causes that undesirable trait to STICK IN PLACE HARDER.

On the other hand, by doling out some praise (in an area where it’s actually deserved), you RAISE that person’s self-esteem and self-pride and the ‘bad habit’ will almost always drop out of sight all on its own.

Why?

Because such a habit is no longer congruent with the ‘competent, valued colleague’ self-image you’ve now helped that person to construct of themselves.

How do I know this?

Because I speak from personal experience, that’s how.

If you focus on the good stuff, and simply NOTICE the ‘bad stuff’ without making a big deal about it, the bad habit will usually melt away all on its own.

It’s simply human nature.

And the exact same principle applies to YOU.

If you criticize, judge, worry, and berate yourself, you’ll simply STICK your undesirable traits in place not to mention, cause a whole lot of unnecessary ANGST for yourself. (And who wants to do that?)

If you want to change your self-talk – and thus, your life – what you need is to give yourself the calm, space, and peace necessary to just BE.

The magic word?

Meditate.

When you meditate, a funny thing starts to happen: criticism no longer has the power to impact you.

Like magic, doubts and insecurities just melt away along with all the characteristics that no longer best serve you anymore. There’s no judging.

No struggling.

No hardship.

Instead, it’s just you and the Infinite under whose gaze all flaws, crinkles, and rough spots naturally smooth away.

You don’t have to DO anything.

All you have to do is sit down and be present.

Here’s What to Do (It’s Easy, Don’t Worry) 

First: there’s NO ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ way to meditate.

Some people do it lying down in bed.

Some people stand up.

Some people walk around in their neighborhood! Some even use guided meditations.

Newcomers to meditation often inadvertently interrupt themselves during a practice by thinking, ‘Uh-oh … am I doing it right? Why am I still thinking? Aren’t I supposed to be totally ‘empty’ right now?’

Here’s the deal: the ‘myth’ that your brain needs to be silent during meditation is just that:

A MYTH.

Your brain will NEVER stop thinking.

And it’s not your job to try and get it to do so.

Instead, the whole point of meditation is to help you feel peaceful about the way things are.

So thoughts will come and go.

Your task is to simply ALLOW them to do that, without interfering, worrying, or indeed reacting in any way.

(It’s easy but simultaneously somehow harder than it sounds!)

So now that we’ve cleared that up, here’s what you’re going to do: First: sit down in a comfy place.

It doesn’t matter where. You can sit in a chair if you want, on a cushion, whatever. The important thing is that you’re comfy.

(You can lie down, if you like.)

Because your breath is always with you no matter where you are, it makes a pretty handy meditation tool.

All you’re going to do is try to count to ten.

On the out breath, count ‘one’ (silently.)

On the next out breath, count ‘two’. If you become distracted by a thought, that’s OK. Just start again at one.

If you can get to ten, you’re doing well! As your experience grows, try to count to ten again and again.

Don’t worry about whether this sounds ‘effective’ or not.

If your mind is right now throwing up thoughts of, ‘What is she talking about? How is this going to work for me? It sounds boring and not active enough!’

Stop.

Wait.

Disengage from your Inner Critic, and give it a go. Right now. Use the energy created by reading this article. Wherever you are, close your eyes, relax, and start the count.

Don’t worry if you feel nothing at first.

Remember, this is an ONGOING discipline with CUMULATIVE EFFECTS meaning, the more often you do your ten-count, the more benefit you will feel (and the easier it will be!)

Little by little, you’re getting in touch with your inner peacefulness – your true sense of natural relaxation, self-acceptance, and quiet, ever-present JOY.

It’s a powerful thing and an excellent means of ‘loosening up’ your death-grip on reality.

Why would you want to do such a thing?

Because fluidity in life is what permits opportunity to come your way, change to start flowing, and chance to favor you.

So start now. Right now. And in one week, see the positive change and difference in your life already.

I will stop here. I hope you enjoyed reading this article on how to silence your inner critic and if you truly did, please do not forget to share it on your favorite social media.

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