Are you willing to make the effort needed to transform your thoughts and patterns, and challenge your beliefs in an attempt to change your behaviors?
Changing your thoughts and patterns can be extremely difficult and time-consuming and motivation comes and goes. In order for you to make consistent, lifelong changes within your life to change your mood, you must get up and show up for the work every single day no matter how good or bad you feel.
On the days where you feel good you cannot skip reflecting on your thoughts and self-talk because they might go right back to being negative and harmful without you even knowing it. And on the bad days you can’t ignore reflecting on your thoughts and patterns because you’re feeling bad but rather you need to push through and find that inner motivation to make the changes necessary within your life.
Often times when people suffer with depression symptoms, they want to give into them and shrink into the negative feelings that they are having. However, if you do this depression wins and you will likely feel worse and worse as time goes on.
However, if you just go through the actions even if you don’t want to in an attempt to change your thoughts, self-talk, and patterns of behavior or the patterns within your schedule, you will notice that after a few hours or days you will feel much better.
Accountability is a huge part in making consistent, effective change within your thoughts and your actions. Personal accountability can be difficult because if we give ourselves an option to do something or not do something and you will most likely choose the easiest option.
And usually, the things that are good for us, the things that we should do, are the things that we don’t necessarily want to do, or the things that aren’t as much fun, so we try to avoid them and focus on the things that are more fun.
Without personal accountability and pushing ourselves to do things that we might not feel like doing we are unable to make the necessary changes in our lives that will positively impact our patterns of thinking and patterns of behavior.
Personal change requires determination and the willingness to do things every day that will promotes reflection, self-awareness, growth and change.
Remember, you can’t keep doing the same thing every day and thinking the same thing every day and expect to miraculously change the way that you feel or the way that you think. You are the only one that can make changes in your life so that you might holistically feel better.