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Going for gold everyday brings choices into our lives that add to the quality of our everyday experiences. Starting today, no matter what your current circumstances may be, you can make a decision to go for all the golden opportunities that life presents.

Going for gold will mean different things to different people. For some it will be financial, health, work, personal or relationships but for the majority it will encompass enjoying as many different aspects as you can possibly fit into your day that bring enjoyment, happiness and fulfilment on many different levels.

Before you have anything in life you first have to know exactly what it is you want. Determining what you don’t want is often the quickest way to establishing the things that you do want to incorporate into the framework of your life.

A quick assessment of your habits, and your feelings towards them, can often be very revealing by freeing your mind to concentrate on changes that have the potential to expand your life in many different ways.

As you review your habits ask yourself if it is adding value to the overall picture you have for your life. If you consistently spend money on things that will have little or no value that don’t add to your life in some measurable way then maybe it is time to change your impulsive nature and to begin thinking about how this money can be better allocated towards the things that will have a greater impact on your future financial security and happiness. Likewise, if you consistently overeat what will the long term consequences mean to the overall pattern of your health. Will all that extra weight and feelings of not being as healthy as you would like adding to the quality of your life experiences or is it a draining factor in your life. Only you can decide what goes into your life and what you want to take out.

You will probably already know the things you need to do to put you on the road towards going for gold. It is called the nagging voice inside your head that says you should do this, you shouldn’t have that done that and why did I do it as you lament on actions. What you know and what you do are often very different. No wonder our lives are not working out the way we would like.

Listen to that nagging voice for a few moments – it will usually have a lot to say - and jot down the things that you find no longer serving your best interests. Writing down your thoughts has a way of helping you see clearly in black and white exactly what is you need to do. It also helps to generate the solutions and courses of action that will be more in line with what you truly want to see happen now and in the future.

Once you have established where you want to go in your life the next step is to implement the actions necessary. This can take time although simple changes can occur straight away – like the decision not to smoke cigarettes, to cut down on junk food, get more exercise or to only drink one glass of alcohol a day all of which are easily within our capabilities if we decide to. That is the key thing “if we decide to”. For anything to really happen there must be a mental connection and shift within our minds to say’s “hey this is what I want” and for this to happen we have to have a reason to act on the information the mind is receiving.

Often the things we say and the things we do are at totally opposite ends of the spectrum. Habitual ways of doing things hold us to “what is” unless we question the why. Why do you hold onto those old habits that keep you trapped in a never ending circle of mediocrity? Often we do things in life merely because that is the way we have always done them. Ideas get instilled in our brain that we take for granted without ever really thinking about them. Advertisers know that if a thing is repeated often enough the brain accepts the message without question and the next time you need there particular product or service you will remember them first. We buy particular brands of food for example, often because our parents or friends always buy that brand or that brand stands out in our mind through repeated exposure that has been registered on a subconscious level.

It is through questioning our thinking and finding out whose thought is it anyway that we can break free of many of the self imposed habits that are detrimental to our overall wellbeing and happiness.

Decide to investigate the truth behind what you see, hear and do and you may be surprised at how many of your ideas about life have been conditioned by the thinking of the masses. Remember at school when you pestered your parent to buy you a particular brand of shoe because that is what everyone was wearing?.

There are many ways of doing things and if the ways you have been using are not working then it is definitely time to look for alternative solutions. We get fixed ideas on just about everything and tend to forget that that different and sometimes better ideas are around us all the time just waiting for us to put to use.

Our information can become outdated and just like a computer if you don’t update your brain software you miss out on the benefits of the new features that are around us all the time. Why wait until our life stops working before making the effort to update your thoughts and bring them into the present.

There are never really any new ideas. Ideas that are considered new are old ideas combined in new ways. The objective is to find the right combinations that work for you. Make a commitment to trying out new ideas and see how they can be used to enhance your life. This can be anything from a business idea that could potentially increase profits to a new fitness regime that could dramatically improve your levels of health and well being.

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