Change your habits, Change your life.

I really do believe that if you change some of your habits, you can in turn change your entire life.

It may not be THAT simple, but to some extent I think it can be.

See, how we spend our days is usually a good indicator of how we will spend our lives. If you have good habits, such as exercising, reading, mediation, being tidy and the usual habits we associate with someone who lives a happy long life then I can only assume you will feel better physically and mentally than someone who doesn’t.

Just over a year ago my daily habits were something of the complete opposite of the way I live my life now. There was a 3 month period in which I consumed alcohol at least 4 or 5 times a week, sometimes 7.

While living in Greece for a few months I would drink most days and I recall not having a home cooked meal for pretty much the same amount of time. I was eating out twice a day and having sugary snacks to fill me up. At the time I was living by the notion that you only live once, but by doing this I was giving myself an excuse to live the complete wrong way. Using the excuse of ‘we are going to die one day’ in this way led to me doing all of the things which are fun in the moment, high in a dopamine fix but detrimental to the future. It misses the point, the point that if we only live once, why waste this once on blacking out, feeling dull the next day and creating long term health risks that are incredibly hard to come back from.

At this exact time in my life i always felt that something was missing, internally, something which no matter how much ‘fun’ I was having, no matter how many surface level friendships I was making, how many people I was interacting with daily, I still wasn’t entirely happy and it took me awhile to pinpoint why. I didn’t feel like myself, I had a good idea of who I wanted to be and this lifestyle did not align with who she was.

I have always known the person that I want to be in the future, that person is still entirely me, just with better habits who cares a lot more about her life while reaching the potential I was put on this earth to reach. Due to this, I was also aware of the sacrifices that it would require to change my life from the one you have just read about to the one I am living now. Sacrifices which at the time I wasn’t ready to make.

Looking back, having made the majority of these now so called sacrifices i can see that I was simply, not quite there yet. In order to get to this place mentally, it needed a big amount of self work, healing, meditation along with the obvious self awareness to think this way in the first place.

The past me did what she wanted to do at that moment in time, and that is all she could do. Nonetheless I will always be proud of who I was then, who I am now and who I will become, differences and all.

It was the first habit, it’s always the first habit. A bit like taking the first step to a staircase that your goal is to reach the top of. The first habit is the first point to a better life, one habit leads to two, two to three, you can figure out the rest.

I believe that a lot of the change we want to see in our lives, in the world, can happen through a change in habits, a change in perception, small alterations which lead to big things. Not solely habits, but a desire too. The desire that will push you to change that first habit, this desire enhances our daily motivation to actually do the things we might not always want to do. Leading to this desire being the reason we start living the life we think we deserve. To live a happier, healthier and more fulfilling life.

Your habits in essence show the person who you are, looking at them is almost like holding a mirror up to yourself. Holding good habits combined with good morals usually equals a good human.

You deserve everything that you work for, to become the best version of you. You might forget sometimes but there is only one you, in this entire universe. Don’t let the rest of the world miss out on you because you decided you weren’t going to live upto your full potential.

Change your habits, change your life.

Sending Love,

K.