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How To Change Your Life In 4 Steps
Step #1 — Resetting to Joy
For the first week try to just have fun.
Whatever you have been doing got you to where you are. If that is not where you want to be, then it hasn’t been working.
No matter how good it may seem, no matter how motivated you may have been or for how many others it worked, this did not work for you so STOP IT.
It sometimes takes a few days to make this cut, but try to just stop.
Take a breather and recognize that this is not the way forward; at least not if you want to get to a better place.
Once you rested a bit and cleared your head, you can develop a new strategy, but only then.
Take your time and enjoy yourself.
Waste time, do all the things that aren’t good for you, and ignore everything that tells you what you should be doing, as that hasn’t worked for you.
You may still need to go to work or take care of your health, but stop everything else you can that is not bringing you joy.
This may take you anywhere from 2–14 days depending on how much you repressed, how much you can let loose, and how committed you are to enjoying yourself.
