We’ve all heard the saying ‘variety is the spice of life’ but how do we actually bring variety into our own lives. Many of us would simply pass this by thinking that changing the way you are brings added complications and more stress results. In fact, it is quite the opposite, the change that most people fear actually brings much needed zest and passion that is so necessary in our lives. In particular, it can help build stronger relationships and at the same time put us in a much better frame of mind.

The biggest obstacle towards sprucing up your life originates from the mind. How often have you thought about doing something but never really go around to doing it. I can bet you that if you were to total up the time you spent in thinking of doing something but never doing it, it would most likely be longer than the task itself! What is this fear that people have in undertaking any tasks that they would love to do, but simply cannot motivate themselves to doing it? Part of the reasons, in my opinion, is due to too much thinking.

The tendency for most of us, is that when we think too much we inevitably bring about our own personal views to the tasks in hand. This can always be defeatism, because we start to make excuses of how we don’t like to do it, or we were never good at it or simply not confident enough. The mind initially starts with a ‘DO’ attitude and inevitably all our hidden fears and excuses turns the whole event into a ‘DONT’. Next time you find yourself in this quagmire, think about the tasks that you do with passion and zest. You probably do not hesitate for a second to get onto those tasks without even thinking. Your best bet it to take action while you are in the ‘DOING’ stage of the thinking and think about the ‘NAYS’ after doing it. You may very well ask yourself, ‘what all the fuss was all about and how easy the whole task was’.