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Dare to Change Challenge 9/3/07

September 3rd, 2007

Change is an active process that requires focus, commitment, and presence. With the advent of cable, and the internet, and other modern conveniences, the time that defines our lives can be filled with infinite distractions that if indulged in, can make it difficult to maintain any of the requirements of change.

The Dare to Change Challenge is your opportunity to be coached through a change that you have been putting off. The goal of the Challenge is to create change through small incremental steps, so that at no one can have the excuse that they do not have enough time.

The Challenge: Improve your environment (by 1% or in 5-10 minutes; whichever comes first)

As you look around the room you are currently in, what distracts you? What do you look at and feel bad about? What do you complain about? It can be something that you know you (or a loved one) should clean up, or something you have been meaning to organize, donate, recycle, or get rid of. What is something you can do to make your environment feel 1% better than it does right now? What is something you can do within 5 to 10 minutes that will make the room feel less cluttered, and therefore more relaxing?

Once you have identified something that can be done, do it. Don’t listen to your inner voice that says, “That isn’t enough.” or “You should do more” or “I’ll do it on the weekend”. Most people spend more time thinking change than being change, and here is where you listen to your inner nag, and thank him or her for the lovely feedback, and then get started anyway.

Whatever you choose to do is probably more than you have often done, so get over the need for contemplating completion or perfection and get more accustomed to acting. Changing and improving the quality of your life is a process that is accomplished in fits and starts, so you might as well get started improving your experience today.

By improving the quality of your day-to-day life experience on a consistent basis, you will be better able to focus on the things that you want, because you will have fewer things to focus upon that you do not. Like a race, a well-lived life will always have a clear goal in sight, but once that goal is identified, the true master focuses on the individual steps that will get you there.

Once you identify your action, and have done it, please post a comment on the blog and tell me what you have done. You deserve recognition as well as accountability, and I want to help provide both.

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