Acknowledge, Appreciate, Change and Prosper!

We all want to improve our lives every day but some often feel that there is no progress which leads to them giving up on their dreams not realising that success is a process and not an event that occurs over night.

First step to changing your current situation is to acknowledge it, acknowledge how you got there and why you are in that position at that particular point in time. This is very important because it gives you perspective and makes you realise that in order to change that situation then you will have to do a lot of things that you previously did differently.

The next step is to appreciate all the good you have accomplished up to now, no matter how tough the situation you are in is; everyone has something good about them, no matter how little the good is, it is still there and we need to give thanks for every single good thing about ourselves, when we start to count our blessings, we realise that there is a lot that we have at our disposal that can be used to change our lives for the better and this step is a very important part of taking action.

Now that we are aware of our situation and have analysed what needs to change and what needs to remain, it’s time for us to take action and change our bad habits and replace them with good ones, this can be done by writing them down on one side of the page and on the other side of the page, write down the exact opposites of those habits. Once this is done, then we start incorporating the good habits into our daily schedule while keeping the good habits we already had and remember what I said at the beginning, success is a process and not an event; therefore we need to be patient with ourselves and keep doing what we have identified needs to be done regularly so that it can be imprinted so deep in our minds that it no longer takes effort to do it.

When we master our new routine, then prosperity is inevitable but we need to humble ourselves to realise what it took to get there and continue to appreciate so that we do not take our success for granted, we also need to remember that we got help along the way and should also give back and offer help to those in need because you have walked a mile those shoes yourself, no one understands better than you what it is like to be in that position and your victory should offer hope to other individuals.

Keeping it real with

Rori Matsetela