subject: Just Eight Small Ways Your Bootlaces Can Make You Astonishingly Blissful [print this page] Habitually, you put on either your right shoe to start with, or your left shoe. By either passing the right- hand lace around behind the left-hand lace, or vice versa, as a matter of course, you tie your shoes this way. Which shoe you put on first and how you lace up your shoes, tomorrow morning determine this. Now, by tying your laces in a different way and putting on the other shoe first, consciously decide that you are going to flesh out a new habit for the next 21 days.
Now, each morning as you resolve to put on your shoes in a certain way, let this simple act work as a reminder to change other habitual ways of reasoning, acting and feeling throughout that single day. Say to yourself "I am starting the day in a new and better way." as you tie your shoes. Then, consciously declare that during the day:
(1) I will reject completely and close my mind to all those demoralizing and negative "facts" which I can do zilch to alter.
(2) I will react as logically and as intelligently as I am able, regardless of what occurs.
(3) I propose to practice smiling at least three times throughout the day.
(4) My own opinion will not be allowed to modify facts in a discouraging or harmful way.
(5) Insofar as possible, I am going to behave as if success were inescapable, and I already am the sort of personality I want to be. "Being like" and "Acting like" this new personality is what I will rehearse.
(6) A little more patient and a little less severe and of other people, their failings, mistakes and faults, is what I am going to be. I will place the best possible representation upon their actions.
(7) More respectful toward other people is how I will try to become and act.
(8) As light-hearted as possible is how I will be.
Easy? It is simple. But beneficial and constructive effect on your self-image, each of the above usual ways of acting, feeling, and thinking does have. Have fun with them for 21 days. See if worry, guilt, and unfriendliness have not been diminished, and if confidence has not been magnified, after you "Experience" them.
Who was it who once claimed; the things in life that make the maximum difference are the smallest? No, I would not have a clue either. However, it is the case. Yes, there is a way to make a big difference in your life by altering a few minor things in your day-to-day activities.
Just Eight Small Ways Your Bootlaces Can Make You Astonishingly Blissful
