How much of your day is engaged in things you’d rather not be doing?

Or worse, worry or shrink from doing and procrastinate doing?

You awaken and your mind goes to what can go wrong, what problem might arise, or how you might be judged in any of your encounters that day.

 This mindset will activate your stress response, releasing cortisol and adrenaline while causing muscle bracing; and ultimately greater inflammation. All this before breakfast.

Your “mind/body” will want to either stay in bed, or look to distractions, or actions that are familiar.

It will make it more difficult to engage in new successful behaviors, which are those that help you move into new territory in your life.

Your day that enhance your resilience

The other way of starting your day that can lead to better health and success is to embrace your day and your life.

While there is a strong pull to old habits and to follow in existing footsteps, the other powerful force we can access is neuroplasticity, the ability of our brain and our neural circuitry to adapt and learn.

While this path might be more uncomfortable in the short term, it will result in greater comfort and joy in the long term.

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Thank you ….Make the decision that you want to determine how your day unfolds, how you feel during your day, and the direction you want your life to take.

Making a decision—making this decision—begins to pull you out of the stickiness of being a victim in your life.

Recognize that if you are going to take any action, you have a choice of attitude by which you engage in that behavior.

And you can choose the attitude that will better support your success. For example, if I have a business meeting, the attitude that will work better is one in which I value myself and what I have to offer.

Choosing to focus on the positive outcome can help you manage your stress response and be more focused.

If you worry about being judged, it will create tension and the tendency to shrink from the contact boundary.

You will thus project different energy that will be picked up by the other person.

Make a decision to embrace the positive approach through the following self-statement.

Do you want to add a word or two?

I know I need to take this action—or meet this person, or write this proposal, etc.—I accept it. (Rather than resist.)

I might as well choose the attitude that will yield the best result.

So, even though it’s a bit scary, and uncomfortable I will embrace this and experience it as an opportunity for growth.

No matter the outcome, appreciate yourself for taking this positive approach and already consider it a success, and find a positive way to frame the results of your actions.

If the result is not what you were trying to achieve, find a way to use the result as important information and a learning experience that’s part of the path to getting better at what you do.

This puts a positive frame on the experience.

How you remember and take in your experiences is very important.

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Many people who get a positive result will still focus on how stressful or worrisome an experience was.

The next time, they will be just as frightened because they remember the stress, not the success. Identify a positive framework to hold a memory of your experience.

Behavior change is a big thing, no matter the behavior, and it’s almost never possible to take all of it on at once.

We have to start somewhere, though, and with particular, measurable actions. Big and vague has to give way to small and specific.

Humans are hardwired to resist change.

Our brain perceives change as a threat. Because of this, it activates our system’s fight or flight response.

Apart from this reason though, there are other factors that make us perceive that change is difficult.

Emotion works hand-in-hand with the cognitive process, or the way we think, about an issue or situation.

Emotional appeals are commonly found in advertising, health campaigns and political messages.

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