30 days: Change your habits, Change your life

Did you
watch it yet?)
Jobs had a great technique: each day he looked at himself in the
mirror and asked, “If today were the last day of my life, would I want
to do what I’m about to do today?” and if he answered “No” to
himself for too many days in a row, he changed!
Be careful if you use that technique, 
because once you
start
asking yourself this question everything changes.
When you
step out of your comfort zone and start to venture toward the
unknown, you start to grow. 
You will start
feeling uncomfortable
and awkward. That’s a great sign! That’s actually a sign
that you
are growing and moving ahead.
Act in spite of fear and doubt!
Questions:
1) How can you challenge yourself to step out of your comfort zone?
(Remember, small steps!)
2) Is there anything that makes you uncomfortable that you can do
NOW?

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What price are you paying
for NOT changing?
The price of doing the same old thing is
far higher than the price of change.
—BILL CLINTON
Another question that forced me out of my comfort zone when I was
evaluating my situation was, 
“What is the price you are paying for
not taking action?”
I was on the worst possible way to being
seriously burnt out. Of course, it was very risky to just walk away
from my secure job without putting up a fight in the worst economic
crisis the world had seen, but what was the price I was paying to
stay? Serious health problems? No thanks, buddy! I’m out of here.
Since then, I never looked back.
Many years ago, my boss at Volkswagen in Mexico came to me—
the intern—and said, “Marc, I don’t know what to do any more. I’m
close to a breakdown due to stress, but I’m on a three-year Expat-
contract and if I break it, I will be looked at as a failure at the
headquarters in Germany. What would you do?” I told him,
Look, your health is the most important thing you have. If this job
affects your health any more, leave. Because if you get a heart
attack and die, the people that are now giving you the worst time will
say what a great guy you were at your funeral in front of your wife
and kid. I’m talking from my own personal experience: the people
that harassed my father the most at his work, actually wanted to
speak at his funeral! Unbelievable! For now, I would hang in there
and see what happens, because I really believe that life is a miracle,

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everything happens for a reason and in the end everything is always
going to work out!
Two months later, he contacted me from Germany. He was still on
his Expat-contract, however he had returned to Germany and was
working on a new project with far better work conditions. Life is a
miracle—it always works out in the end!