Get out and about.
It’s important to keep your life interesting and fresh, so stay open-minded and be brave. Get involved in volunteering, take up new hobbies and sports! You’ll surprise yourself, meet new people and discover talents you didn’t know you had.
Surround yourself with people.
It’s easy to get stuck in a rut, socialize in small groups of familiar people or not socialize at all. Involving new friends in your day-to-day life will bring new opportunities and new ways of thinking into your lifestyle.
Re-Evaluate.
Take a step back from your life. Not all change is good and it’s important to stay true to yourself. Be honest and if the ‘new you’ isn’t right, have the confidence to admit you were wrong. You weren’t born to be perfect. Have the courage to take a step back to access your progress with your fresh start to check if you’re going in the right direction and if you are not, make a U-turn.
Persevere.
You are not going to wake up being the person you want to be. It will take time, commitment and a few wrong choices along the way. Be happy as you enjoy the process. It will take days, weeks and even month, let the process and progress inspire you. Never give up in the process when it is beginning to look rough. Nobody said it was going to be easy. The truth is, it will not. You only get used to the process and grow to the point where you begin to enjoy it in all its fullness. The pain, the joy, the ups and downs.
Secrets of Making a Fresh Start in Life
Key Lesson: The fear we feel that we can’t succeed with starting life all over again is because our old nature wants us to believe that the path to a New Self requires we retrace our steps and fight our way back to an unsoiled starting place in life. But here’s the truth: There is no pathway, past or future, that leads to Real Self-Newness. The secret place of all fresh starts in life unfolds right from where we are in each moment that we will dare to leave who we have been behind us. Start Now!
Let Higher Facts Free You from a Painful Past
Starting life over is something we must do every second. We must not wait until we want to start over because at that point wanting to start life over is only our futile wish to avoid what has already happened. We are tied to whatever we avoid. Trying to start our life over because we want to get away from our sad-self – or the sorry situations it has created – is like leaping onto a sinking ship to get off of a collapsing dock. Clearly, this is the way to go under, not to start over. But there is a way.
In order to let go of any painful past condition so there is never again a moment where regret or sorrow pulls us down, we must allow every moment, each unexpected event encountered, every thought and feeling no matter its characteristics to have its own life. If we will attempt to view life from this new and higher understanding, that everything under the sun, from thoughts to thunder, has its own birth, life and death, then one day we will come to the relief-filled realization that the reason any part of our painful past persists is because there is something in us that won’t let it die out naturally. Any lingering sadness is an unnatural life-form kept breathing by the false self’s reluctance to let it go. We can prove this to ourselves and we will; but there is also an abundance of help waiting and available to encourage us on our way.
Physicists have just recently confirmed what religious scholars, wise men and mystics have known all along. Every present moment is always new and new is always right now. Now is constantly shedding the old. The old dies to the ever-new in an endless celebration of Life. This is not philosophy or a misplaced wish for a kinder, gentler universe. Life works through this process. You need only observe any living system to see the beauty and significance of starting over – over and over and over. If anything in life fails to shed the old, it quickly stagnates. A spring that stops replenishing its new waters soon turns sour. This powerful principle is never as true as when it pertains to human life. It is a scientific fact that the you who is reading this sentence right now will not be the same you that finishes it!
So, the evidence is conclusive. What it tells us is there is no real reason why our lives should ever seem stale or feel futile because real Life, of which we are a part, is always new right now. This if the fact of it. Our task is to unleash the power of this fact in our own lives. You may be thinking, “What’s it going to take for me to break through to totally Present Living? How can I learn to really start over all of the time?”
Just as a weary rock climber must at times reach above himself to gain a difficult resting ledge, you too must dare to go beyond yourself to find this ever-present safety. There is no danger in true self-ascent. The only real danger lies within remaining where you are. Think about it. If you could realize and enter into that true quality of life where there is an entirely New You every moment, it would mean that with every single heartbeat you would be free from any possible heartache that might have preceded it. In this New Life, every relationship begins for the first time over and over again.
Every discouragement is over right now. Every challenge, every difficulty is shouldered only in its time and is never carried forward or looked back upon with regret. Isn’t that what all of us really want? Yes it is!
Do you see what has happened? Something wonderful has already taken place. Our question is no longer, “Is this Ever-New Life really possible?” Now we are asking, “What is it within me that has kept me from living in this new way?” What a difference! If you will only persist with this kind of bold self-questioning, nothing in the universe can stop you from leaving the painful past behind and breaking through to a New You. This is Truth’s wondrous promise.
