Life is changing invariably and is an unavoidable necessity. We may not willingly accept change; however, change happens. We see change all around us. Adults were once children. As our bodies change, our minds change as well. As it is said “when I was a child I spoke as a child, thought as a child, and reasoned as a child, when I become a man, I put away childish things.” We go through changes every day, in fact several times a day.
While life changes, we can intentionally make a life change. How to make a life change that works? Change how you think! Changing your mindset will change the habits dominating your mind. How you think and what you think about forms your mindset, your attitude. Your mindset develops habits in life. Habits create character and character is the guiding force in developing your lifestyle. Habits can be positive, beneficial, and productive, or habits can be negative, destructive, and unproductive. You must decern which habits are positive and which habits are negative.
Jesus Christ spoke of changing your life by saying, “you must be born again (KJV).” It is clearer when Paul says be transformed (change your life) by a renewed mind. Do not allow society to design your life. Design your own unique path according to your dream and abilities. When you keep the same habits, your lifestyle does not change. To make a change in life you must intentionally change your mindset and receive change in you. Below are five elements to make a life change that works. Be Organize, Optimize Time Use, Set Goals, Create a Life Plan, and Action.
Be Organized to Make a Life Change That Works
The first element of “How to Make a Life Change That Works” is being organized. Being organized is more than files and paperwork. The process of systematically arranging tasks to produce the desired result effectively and efficiently is organization. Without organization you may find yourself repeating what you have already done or missing necessary steps to accomplish goals or losing key instructions or notes needed to complete goals effectively. Your first step is to organize your mind and attitude to be organized in your thinking and your actions.
Consistent discipline is the best action to maximize getting organization. You can have as much knowledge as possible, several degrees, and great understanding, but without being organized all will be ineffective. Being organized is the basis for achieving anything you set out to do or become. Did you make up your bed when you got up? That’s a great start!
You must discipline yourself to keep your thoughts and your work area organized to find what you need when you need it. Having the best tools, the most expensive work area and being disorganized will cause your progress to drag. Here are five items to get started organized.
- Write ideas and good suggestions in a journal or whatever is your recording method.
- Use a planner or an agenda to set your day’s activities.
- For weekly tasks, set a day of the week for each one.
- Declutter your computer files. File similar subjects together.
- Maintain your organization daily.
These are to give a boost in getting started. The list is too long for this posting. You can brainstorm and create a list that fits your lifestyle.
Optimize Time Use to Make a Life Change That Works
The second element to “How to make a life change that works?” is optimize your time usage. Time management is the process of planning and exercising conscious control of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity. Time optimization is making the best use of time. We are given 24 hours a day. Proper use of time determines your progress. These tips will help you make a life change that works.
- Prioritize your activities. A (Urgent and Important), B (Important), C (Needed), D (Delegated).
- Work one “A” category, three “B” category tasks, work five “C” category tasks each week. This will help increase your focus. Delegate when necessary.
- Use an agenda or day planner to schedule activities
- Schedule a day and time each week for recurring activities.
To refine your schedule, use the next seven days to track time usage. Record the time you worked on the task. Your goal is to estimate time used productively and eliminate time wasters or distractions. Be honest with yourself, you are learning how to make a life change that works by making the best use of time. Trade unproductive activities for productive activities. Categorize, prioritize and plan your activities.
Set New Goals to Make a Life Change That Works
The third element of “How to make a life change” is set goals. Goals gives directions, accountability, responsibility, measures progress, and identify success. The Bible says you must make a good effort to achieve the goal of God’s gifting. Do all you can do with what you possess to accomplish your goal one step at a time.
When you achieve a goal, you will realize success comes with achievement. Do not seek success, attract success. Goals are the guides leading to your destination. Your vision is a long journey, made one step at a time. If you can conceive it, believe it’s yours, and receive it into your life. Write it down. Describe in detail. Plan it and do it.
Know your purpose. Your purpose is stronger than the objective. Knowing your purpose will pull you to the vision and into the vision. Your purpose is your reason for seeking the vision and your reason for becoming the person who will possess the vision.
Create a Life Plan to Make a Life Change That Works!
Making a life change that works requires you to develop an effective life plan.
Start where you are with your abilities and resources and move where you intend to go. Knowing where you are is a key factor in determining the kind of strategy you create for yourself. Your strategy is your road map that will direct you in a path leading you to your vision. To create your strategy there are certain elements needed to assure success.
- Vision. The dream that sparks the fire. The desired result.
- Mission. What and how you will achieve the vision
- Purpose. Why you are doing what you are doing. It should not be about money but have a money goal.
Do not focus on being perfect, that will distract you. Plan, Do, Evaluate, Refine, and Re-do. Remember it is a process, one step at a time.
Action
The power of how to make a life change that works is action. Making a life change is not based on having the knowledge or being organized or how to use your time or how to set powerful goals but applying the knowledge you acquire. Having the knowledge to make a change in life and not using it is worse than not knowing how to make a life change. Deploying yourself in the knowledge you have acquired will require consistent discipline and faith in yourself and abilities.
Consistent discipline is a habit that can be formed in your life. Achievers are those who are action takers. They study, learn and act on the knowledge they have gained. Achievers commit to their vision, delight fully work. and are confident their abilities and source. Jesus Christ taught his students and commanded them, Go!
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Thanks for sharing your methods and tricks for making a change that will work and last. I would add to your list / emphasize that the progress to your goal(s) should also be tracked and for more than just the first 7 days. The old saying “what gets monitored, gets managed” has proven to be true over and over again.
Hi Aly,
Thanks for the comment and great suggestion. A 7-day period is certainly not sufficient to evaluate any goal. The 7-day time optimization suggestion is for evaluating time use. I have use it several time in varying lengths to refine my time use. To evaluate goals I use a daily evaluation tool to refine my goals progress.
Othnyel
Hello there! This is an informative article! Sometimes I feel like when we want something, we want it immediately but that is unrealistic. Definitely agree with the points you made in your article. Being organized is really important but I feel like it sets up the foundation for whether one will achieve their goal or not. Time use is also really important because often times we spend too much time in the wrong areas only to feel defeated in the end. I guess that’s where being organized helps a lot. Thanks for sharing these tips.
Hey Mike, appreciate your comment. You nailed it in saying we want it quick, right now. We must realize that which comes quick is usually with solid foundation and goes as quick as it came. Being organized lays a foundation to support what we build and increases endurance in difficult times.
Othnyel
Hi and thank you for sharing this article How to Make a Change That Works with us. Let’s talk about it. This post/article bring me back to focus to my feeling to be the best . Consistent discipline is to know what you know want and what you don’t want. The absolut reality is form by your intention.
My life experience and as Esther and Abraham Hicks said, to be consistent is the key of who you are and who will gonna be. You , us have choices. We do not have to be resistant. We have to get ready to get goi g and try to make it better.
Don’t take reality and try to resistance but do consistent goals, keep your focus to realise those goals. Life is about creating first inside you and then everything is reflecting into the reality.
Understanding where non resistance is is everything in our life. Understanding that that where inner been is and where everything start is from within us and the absolute key is to be consistent, always.
Thank you for sharing this splendid article 👏 and for reminding us what we need to do.
Hello Angell70, Thanks for your your comment. Inciteful and encouraging. Like your comment on consistency. We might add to that be persistent as an ant. An ant will find a way to achieve its goal! Perhaps we can all use a bit more of that.
Othnyel
I agree with you that every life change that works starts with setting goals. You don’t get anywhere when you don’t know where you are going. So if we don’t plan and set goals, we will waste a lot of energy. Planning allows us to anticipate scenarios for achieving our objectives.
Hello Ann, thanks for commenting. Goals reveals where we are and point us in the direction to where we intend to go. Thanks again. Othnyel
Hey mister,
You have really nailed it for a business model or life plan. I will be studying this a little closer to try and format the way I run my business. As you said, I am the greatest tool for making life changes. You have just given a little guidance.
I will summarize what I am taking from this. I have copied this on a word document to use in a course I teach on leadership and supervision. I have added to it a bit.
Be Organized
1. Write ideas and good suggestions down in a journal or whatever is your recording method.
2. Use a planner or an agenda to set your day’s activities.
3. For weekly tasks, set a day of the week for each.
4. Declutter your computer files. File similar subjects together.
5. Maintain your organization.
Optimize Time Use
1. Prioritize your activities. An (Urgent Important), B (Important), C (Necessary), D (delegate).
2. Work one “A” category, three “B” category tasks, work five “C” category tasks each week. This will help increase your focus. Delegate when necessary.
3. Use an agenda or day planner to schedule activities
4. Schedule a day and time each week for recurring activities
Set Goals, make them attainable but if you always reach them you are not reaching your full potential.
Share your goals and develop a team. Ask for input from others, you may find a better, easier, or more efficient way to your goal.
Take action, You have to do to get done! Working together toward a common goal.
Evaluate what and how you performed. Look for ways to improve and be more efficient.
I really like what you have here. I think folks need to realize your point though. everything I didn’t copy is what makes you great! If people would remember that being a good person and living with integrity and honesty will go a long way!
Thanks for sharing!
Chad
Hey Chad thanks for for your comment. Powerful additions, like what you have shared.
Very interesting article. Couldn’t agree more that change is part of our life, no matter if we want it or not. And in current times, in post-covid world changes will be faster and more fundamental then ever. We can be part of this trend, or be forced to accept whatever future will bring. I prefer to be in first group, and your advices and recommendation are extremely useful. Most important think is to have long term plan for life and go with it despite all difficulties.
hello Cogito, thanks for commenting on How to Make a Change that works. The speed of change is always heightened in times of trauma. We must always decide to part of the change to be relevant. Thinking long term is planning for life!
Hello Othnyel, thank you for creating this site and especially for this article. I enjoy reading it, learning the valuable tricks to organize, and being more productive in my personal and professional life. I take note of your suggestions here, and I will start to apply them daily. Your article gives me a helpful guide to follow.
Thank you for sharing it and concreting it with the Word of God.
Be blessed
Alketa
Hello Alketo,
Thank you for your comment. I am so enthused to have shared this with others and you in particular. My desired is to be helpful to others as they journey to their fullest potential. I see life as an opened sky and we are eagles looking for favorable winds to spread our wings and soar.
To your prosperity and good success,
Othnyel
This article is a great encouragement on how to make a change that works.
In my opinion, the most important of all of these is action. We can have set goals, a planned life path, and we are organized in everyday life, but if we do nothing in the direction of actions to achieve goals and change, we stay at the same. It is important to do at least something every day, even with small steps we can make progress. Thanks for great tips!
Friendly greeting,
Nina
Thank you Nina for your comment. I am encouraged reading it. You summarized the article well and rightly stated the importance of goalsetting with organization you plan better and your actions are more focused to produced good results. Evaluate, refine and pursue better results.
Othnyel
These are some really great tips on being able to take control of your life. The best thing to do is to be able to come up with and stick to a plan that works for YOU. I’ve tried plans that break things down to the minute and I just wasn’t able to stick to them because they were too restrictive. However that same plan may work wonders for someone else. It’s all about evaluating your own lifestyle and working through different methods until you find one that sticks.
Hey Rachel, thanks for the comment. Finding the plan that works for you is imperative to achieving anything. it is best to create your own plan. Understanding the outline for designing a plan can be helpful to design a personal plan.
Thanks for the life experience on planning. When you design a plan it fits your attitude and work ethic.
Othnyel
As you said, change is a part of life. It is human nature to resist change but if we don’t change we stagnate.
It does take time and effort to change and in this fast paced world, many people want everything now, they aren’t prepared to wait. That is why scam artists do so well, they promise instant results that give an amazing lifestyle for very little work.
For lasting change, as you said, it does take time and work. All the planning in the world though isn’t worth anything without the Action as you pointed out. Some do lots of research, make grandiose plans but never take the action to make it reality.
Hopefully, more people will do so after reading this post.
Greeting Linda, Thanks for your comment. Enjoyed reading this encouraging comment. You rightly stated so many are not prepared to wait. This is usually due to a lack of discipline which causes procrastination or anxious movement. We must discover the ability to be patient which is a complement to consistent discipline.
My desire is to help others achieve their goals to get closer to their vision or dream.
Othnyel
Acceptance is so vital to all parts of our lives especially when it comes to change. Since it is unavoidable it is best to go with the flow while maintaining a positive outlook. Being intentional rather than reactive is also quite important. As you have stated with proper organization of our minds and attitudes we are on the right track. Discipline is key in this endeavor. Setting priorities for our time is also necessary. With a viable plan and goals, we are ready to proceed. Thanks for sharing your valuable insights.
Hey Joseph, thanks for the comment. Consistent discipline moves forward to the objective. The opposition to discipline is procrastination. procrastination says do it later, discipline says do it now. Setting priorities and committing to them will help bring about the desired results.
To your Prosperity and success
Othnyel