If you read my previous post, you know of my frustration over why people do not seem able to make real lasting changes in their life. Many people are happy where they are in life, and prefer not to step out in a new direction because new directions are scary.

People try to follow a new plan for a day to a month, then the life they have previously created creeps in, and before they know it, their life is in the same as before. For others, the goals they want to achieve take decades to accomplish, and they become frustrated in a few weeks or months.

As I mentioned earlier, the biggest problem is too many people miss or gloss over as not important what really is most important. What nine-hundred and ninety-nine out of every thousand people who want to make changes in their lives miss is the single most important part.

People are so busy doing what they think is correct, follow a set of rules or manage a flowchart, they miss the key element. They polish and rearrange the tasks of their todo list. Once their list is as good as they can make it, they check off step one, which was to make a list.

Some amount of time goes by, and they check off the second task. Some time later a third step gets checked off. Eventually the list comes to an end. They know they have made some positive changes in their life. They also know the level, quantity, or quality of change they were expecting did not happen, and they do not know why.

They become morose and disenchanted with the process because real change did not happen as they thought it should. They forget the whole idea until a Change Your Life  Package shows up again – in another form. Then they remember this is important, and they start all over again.

What is missing? Why do so many people miss or believe what is not important is needing to become totally involved? Totally involved rather than making and checking a list of tasks. Checking off tasks is useful for doing many disparate items that need to be done. Checking off tasks is important to help one track progress toward a physical goal, checking the steps involved.

Checking off tasks with little or no inner awareness of participating is doing no more than externally acknowledging some amount of work was done. Doing work is simply what it sounds like. Doing work is completing tasks. Doing tasks does not changing lives over the long term unless your inner you is involved.

For real, permanent change, you have to actively involve the inner you. Much more so than  completing steps 1, 2, 3, or putting  check marks next to items a, b, and c. Not putting you into the process is cheating yourself. Knowingly or unknowingly sabotaging yourself, keeps you from changing. You must be the center of the change. Actively seek opportunity and put you in everything you do. If you are not present and actively looking for pathways to change, you are only completing a checklist.

We all know someone whom we consider very successful. No person who is successful stays that way by accident. Successful people are always looking for opportunities to be successful from the time they wake up to the time they go to sleep. They may not be cognizant of what they are doing as it becomes second nature, but they are actively looking for opportunity all the same.

If you are related to someone successful or know someone well enough, pay close attention to them. You will notice over time, no matter what they are doing, they are looking for ways to how the situation may be made more beneficial to them.

Successful people are ever in the center of their lives. They actively look for and often find opportunity. Every opportunity does not work out as well as they hope. With time and experience they refine their purpose for change and learn to make the most of every opportunity. They are actively including themselves in what they do instead of simply wondering when they will be able to check off the next task.

To make real change you must have your inner self involved in any and all change you wish to create. Creating a checklist or flowchart moves you from one point to another, but does little to change your situation into something you want your life to be.

Actively look for opportunity to involve yourself in the change beyond a checklist or flow chart. The universe with all its power to effect change cannot help you effect change in your life unless you are an active part of the process. The more of you that you place into making creating change in your life, the grander and more pronounced that change will become. Input equals output.