Create Your Future

Frederick Matthias Alexander was an Australian actor and author who developed the Alexander Technique, an educational process said to recognize and overcome reactive, habitual limitations in movement and thinking. He came About this thinking after experiencing recurring bouts of laryngitis that significantly challenged his career as an actor. Mr. Alexander found that he could overcome this disablement by focusing on relaxing. It’s quite obvious that his consistent “doing” of the thing that remedied his discomfort then became a habit and his future was quite different than had he remained on his original path.

That’s what I took from reading about Frederick Matthias Alexander and I think he’s correct. It’s nearly a corollary of, “If you keep doing the same thing, you will keep getting the same outcome.”

Many of us start the new year with resolutions that typically require us to do something different or more than we did in the previous year. You know, go to the gym, reduce our sugar intake, drink less coffee, keep our closets organized, call our friends and family more. The list is as long as the people reading this blog! Whatever your resolution is, it require you to yield to the notion that you have to do something different in order to create the outcome you desire. In essence, you are opening up space to think and be in new ways.

And isn’t that the drumbeat of all change? Thinking and being in new ways until they become habits. Mindless, good habits moving you toward a much brighter future.

I’m in! What habit are you changing toward a better future.