Now that you have been inspiring yourself each day by doing the exercise you created in Step One, what is next?

First, have you noticed any changes? Did you continue to do the exercise daily? You may have remembered to do this for a few days and then forgot. How did that happen when you really intended to do it?

There are three mechanisms that our psyche utilizes in order to keep us in the habitual patterns.

1. Denial: you forget, the intention gets pushed out of your consciousness.

Antidote: Remember. Make things concrete, that you see in your image in step one. If you see healthy and strong as you wearing a certain color. Then wear that color. Any way you can make the specifics in the image concrete in your everyday life will increase you cues to help you to remember.

2 .Expectation: You form an expectation of what “should be happening” and if is not what “is” happening, then you feel let down, and stop. You create pressure for the outcome to look a certain way or “ it is not working”.

Antidote. Stay in the present, keep your focus on choices in this moment. Pay more attention to how the situations "feels", then the exact form you were expecting it to look like. Let go of end point expectations and stay with the focus.

3. Doubt, you begin to listen to the doubts telling you why this will never work, you do not deserve it, etc. :

Antidote: Keep going, taking action and paying attention, do the exercise, continue with the intention until it manifests, or is no longer what you want.

When you did the exercise from Step One, what did you notice? How did you feel? What was different?

Just keep going with it, change happens over time. Little by little your choices change, life changes. Remember every day what your intention is and focus on this with all of your attention. Do the exercise you created in Step One. Then let go of any expectation, go live your day, and make choices. Pay attention. Creating change takes what ever time it will take, it is a process not an event. Often we give up and stop doing anything different.

Next, you need to learn to examine your thoughts. You have created mental pathways, habit patterns of thoughts. These thoughts direct your feelings, which fuel your actions. You can go through an in-depth analysis of your thoughts and evaluate them. (meaning to find what is of value in them.) Those that are not of value, you learn to change. Stay tuned for Step three, where you will learn more about this.