Your thoughts are not in permanent marker—erase and edit accordingly.  After our mid month check in, I figured we’d need a reminder that, if we aren’t where we want to be, all it takes is a shift in mindset.  This isn’t a race by any means, this is a pulse check and sometimes we need a nudge to see if we’ve been true to ourselves.  They say something like 90% of people have already given up on their resolutions. That’s scary enough but the truth is I’m not talking about resolutions—I’m talking about our life dreams.  We need to serious about them.  We need to make sure we create space for them.  We need to make sure we prioritize them now or we will continue to put them off until we are saying we will do it next year.  That is how thoughts become habits and habits become who we are and then we convince ourselves this is just who we are.  We just stuck ourselves.  We are still so early in the year that there is absolutely NO reason that we can’t give ourselves a little reality check/kick in the butt and get started again.  It’s never too late to start again or to remind ourselves that we still got this—because we do!    

The key is to remember that the goal is change that serves our purpose.  Sure if we’re working for something specific, the steps we take will be geared toward that and we make room for surprises.  Habits are tough to kick and to ensure lasting change, we have to go where it starts: our mind.  We spend the most time with ourselves and we need to make sure it’s a good place to be.  Our job is to make sure we set ourselves up for success with clarity and adaptability.  Nothing is permanent unless we make it so.  The more we repeat a thought, the more likely it is to become a habit.  So work on repeating the thoughts that support those new habits.  If we’ve already started to revert and aren’t making the progress we want to see, stop.  Just take a pause and readjust.  EDIT those thoughts, edit the actions that come with it.  It takes a good  amount of time to reshape habits—be patient.  Edit as much as needed, as often, as many times as it takes.  We are human and we make mistakes so accept them, re-route them, edit, fix, try again until we are seeing the progress we want.