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Making sustainable lifestyle changes is hard work, and until you are truly committed to making real changes you will find yourself sliding back into those old comfy (& often unhealthy) habits. When I began acknowledging that my life was in a very sad state and no where close to where I had hoped , I began looking for answers, I tried setting goals but they never seemed to get any closer to being realized, I read, I tried visualization, I was adrift. It seemed  I would follow one step forward with three steps backwards, I yearned for change. “WHY ME?”, I wondered what I had done wrong to deserve such trials.

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• KNOWING WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO YOU GIVES YOU DIRECTION IN LIFE.
• IDENTIFYING YOUR TOP PRIORITIES ALLOWS YOU TO FOCUS YOUR ENERGY ON THESE RATHER THAN THINGS THAT ARE NOT AS IMPORTANT.
• KNOWING YOUR PRIORITIES GIVES YOU A POINT OF REFERENCE WHEN MAKING DECISIONS.

Awareness Exercise 

Step One

1. Make a list of your priorities (examples: health/fitness, family, finances, happiness, career, learning, community service, spirituality/ faith).

Visualize:

Step Two:

1. Relax. Close your eyes and imagine yourself in your favorite place many years from now when you are in the twilight years of your life. Reflect on your life from this vantage point. What are you most grateful for? What did you accomplish? What are your most treasured experiences? What is your favorite way to spend your time? List your answers on a separate piece of paper, be as thorough as possible. May be done alone or with a partner.
2. Relax. Close your eyes and imagine you are back in your favorite place, but instead of being in the twilight of your life it is present day and you have just learned you have terminal cancer and have been given six months to live. What do you want to experience, accomplish, change or have, now that you have this additional information. List your answers on a separate sheet  of paper. May be done alone or with a partner.
3. Now compare your two sets of answers, did your priorities change? Often when threatened with a terminal illness, perspectives shift and the things that are truly important to us emerge.
4. Save your two lists of answers from this exercise, you need them for future exercises.

Review

Step Three

1. Take the lists you developed in exercise two and order them from least to most important. This information will help you when having to make an important decision.

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