For example, a friend of mine used to tell his wife when she was feeling mopey to put on her red lipstick, get up, and go stir around a little.
What he was saying is get out of your head and into your body; do something that feels good.
A state change is simply that, a deliberate change in how you’re showing up to your life right now. Remembering to do it is the key.
Sometimes we have to take several stabs at a new habit, especially if they are big ones like cutting out sugar, becoming a non-smoker, or going gluten-free because we’re confronting life-long emotional and physical addictions.
But if we keep stabbing, eventually we kill those suckers.
If the responsibility for my outcome is not 100% mine, what chance do I have of creating a new one? If someone or something else has 20-30% of the responsibility for changing my life, (the weather, my spouse, the town I live in, my boss) and they don't do their part, what then?
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