This Won't Work For Me...

I love to read blogs. I read tons of housekeeping, cooking, parenting, marriage and self-improvement blogs that offer unlimited amounts of advice, tips and new ideas on how to improve many areas of one's life.

Not only do I enjoy the articles, but I also like to peruse the readers' comments which can be very insightful and offer unique twists on ideas. But one type of comment seems to appear far more often than the rest:

"Great idea! But this would never work for me because..."

I have seen why fifteen minutes of cleaning a day will never work because a home is too big. I have read that healthy diet changes are impossible because the kids will never go for it. I have gawked at the number of people who cannot improve their marriage because they say their husband will never change. I have cringed at how many excuses one can come up with for why they will never lose weight.

Obviously not every idea is for everyone. Everything I read does not necessarily work for me either. But that is not the first thought one should have when reading a new idea.

If you read something and your first thought is all the reasons why it will never work for you, then you will never improve your life. To grow as a person, you must first change your mindset. For every excuse you come up with for why something will not work for you, try thinking of one reason why it could work for you and say those reasons out loud or write them in the comments. This will, at the very least, open you up to giving it a try.

Want to lose weight? Think of all the reasons why it is possible and do not even allow yourself to say why it is not. Dying to improve your cleaning routine? Take the new tips you read and apply them to your home and your lifestyle. If fifteen minutes a day is not plausible, then keep the concept and up the time to twenty or thirty minutes a day. Looking to revamp your eating habits? Find what you like, cook it and give your family the chance to change without assuming that they never will.

If you want to improve yourself, you must focus on the reasons why it is possible. Do not allow yourself to think of why it may not be. See someone doing something you wish you could do like losing weight, saving money or keeping a clean home? Then commit yourself to doing the same.

The next time you read a blog on improving yourself, I challenge you to think of all the reasons why that idea will work for you. I challenge you to leave a comment stating: "Great idea! It will be tricky, but I can make this work by..." I challenge you to change your way of thinking and live for improving your life instead of merely longing to do so.