Creating Structure and Staying with it will help You to Transform your life.

I believe that having structure in my life helps me better accomplish my goals.  This is especially true when there are a variety of projects happening at the same time.  The structure that I create helps me to monitor my efforts and also to be accountable for my actions, my behavior that is essentially directed at achieving what I say I want out of life.  I especially use this approach in my music profession and the project that I have taken on developing or creating for myself.

In my counseling work with clients I always attempt to enroll them into this type of strategy for managing their life.  For the most part, there is a great deal of resistance with respect to the entire goal setting process.  Many clients will go through the process of creating structure and then do not follow through with it.  Some refuse to do it completely.  The resistance to creating structure that will help you to follow through with what you say you want is merely a statement that you truly want to stay the same.  The pay off is that the individual does not have to be responsible for his life.  I believe that the only way we will change or transform our life is through creating structure.

This structure will appear as having a general plan for what you are wanting to do and also a daily action plan.  The general plan is a the goals of what I want to have happen and the daily action plan is how, everyday, I will go about making them happen.  The more specific and positive the goals the better.  The more time and place specific for the daily action plan the better.

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What are you committed to in life, structure or chaos?

This is a simple question to asks anyone whether they are in recovery or practicing transformation.  What are you committed to in life?  Are you committed to structure or are you committed to chaos?  Your answer to this question is important.  Regardless of what you say, the truth of your commitment will show up in your behavior.

If you are committed to chaos you will find life very difficult.  You will also find doing recovery difficult, if not impossible.  To be committed to chaos means that you will not do what you say you would do, you will be late for appointments, if you show up at all, will not complete on much of the work that you need to do to change or transform your life.  Living life from the perspective of chaos will also allow you to take no absolutely no responsibility for your life, giving you the ability to blame others.

To be structured is to put order into your life.  To be structured means that I will set up goals and take on accomplishing them through doing what I need to do.  I will show up for my appointments and do what I say I will do.  I will create a plan for my week, for my month, and then will go about making what I want happen. Structure lets me predict what will happen to me, as I am the one actively creating life, not being the effect of life.  Creating the habit of structure will allow you to transform your life.

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Commitment is key to transforming your life.

Staying committed to changing your life is so important.  Commitment is key to transforming your life.  Once we decide what we have to change in our life, in our way of being, to be different, we make the changes in how we do life.  But to keep the transformation in place takes a great deal of commitment, commitment to staying the course, to staying present to the path, to not give up when the course appears problematic and doubt appears.  Changing our life usually also involves creating a structure or routine that will enable the transformation to evolve or emerge.  Staying present to and committed to the structure or schedule will enable us to continue altering our life.  It is inside a structure, schedule or routine that we will change our life, to create new habits from which to live differently and more authentically.

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