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Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could flick a switch to change your life? What if you could simply press a button to achieve your hopes and goals? Well, try looking around the internet a little – not much searching needed, you’ll find lots of personal development websites that suggest that changing your life can be just that effortless. Naturally, there’s no such thing as a quick fix when it comes to living the dream – if that was the case everybody would be doing it. But even though there’s no magic switch that you can flick, even though your life won’t change in a single mouse-click, in fact, personal development or self improvement is quite like tuning in an old-fashioned radio. And like old-fashioned radios, the reception keeps coming and going, you have to keep fine-tuning.

On the other hand, our mind is tuned out – or, perhaps, more like completely turned off! Research confirms that the normal mind is about 1% tuned in to the only place and time where life is lived – the present. Most of your attention – and you’re not even aware of it – is focused on stuff that you learned about yourself when you were a child. These are the reference points that your subconscious mind uses to dictate your all-too-automatic reactions that everything that you think is happening now. And, as we’ve said, you’re not aware of it at all.

But life is taking place in front of your very eyes and you’re trying to listen to life’s radio station but you can’t hear a thing. That’s because you’re not paying attention. If you want to change your life, you’re going to have to re-learn how to pay attention to what’s really happening now – this is how to tune in and transform your life. I use the word “re-learn” because, when you were young, you were great at paying attention – perhaps not at school because maybe school didn’t turn you on – but, when you were even younger, when, say, you got a new toy, you gave it and maybe even the box it came, in all of your attention. You examined it, looked at it inside out, smelled it, licked it, shook it, held it up to your ear – you used all of your senses to completely experience the new toy. Every moment is like that new toy – to fully experience what’s going on, you’re going to have to see it, feel it, hear it, smell it and taste it as if you’d never come across anything quite like it before. And, of course, you haven’t because every moment is unique.

For sure, changing your life is as simple as tuning in. The one problem, however, is that the radio signal keeps coming and going – you’re going to have to learn to tune yourself in again and again. How about starting not start each and every day with five minutes fine-tuning?

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