Changing Your Environment to Change Your Lifestyle for the Better

As you look in the mirror and see yourself getting older, you may want to take stock of what you have accomplished so far throughout the years. If you are satisfied that you are achieving what you aim for, it is likely that your image will reflect contentment and happiness.

Yet if your image also appears to have a lot of negative traits such as dark rings under the eyes, ravaged or blotched skin, bedraggled look, premature gray hairs, over or underweight, and other elements that suggest an unhealthy condition, it may be that you are paying a high price to attain such achievements. Take them as signs that a change or some changes have to take place. Your sleeping habits perhaps? It may be your diet, or your skin regimen, or even the company you keep.

Actually, one of the most overlooked aspects that can influence lifestyle is the quality of the environment in which we act, interact, work, recreate or sleep. The people, the structure, the facilities, the sounds, the view, the colors or even the terrain, contribute to what surrounds us as environment. It may take some effort to process this but consider the exercise as akin to an essay editing task, wherein you, your lifestyle, your achievements and your environment make up the composition.

Carefully review your past, present and future tenses; analyze the singularities and pluralities present in your life. Try to comprehend your life’s meaning, look for inconsistencies or mistakes that need to be corrected. Then relate them all to your environment to find out what needs to change

Reviewing Your Past, Present and Future

Accomplishments do not necessarily mean career related, but mostly those associated with your present occupation; either as a student, a housewife, or an aspirant in your field of interests. In carrying out activities in the past, were there elements in your surroundings that complicated matters for you?

Consider your present and your future and of how your physical condition is holding up.Let us say as a housewife you have to frequently manage a long flight of stairs and carry heavy loads at the same time as daily routine. If you can’t be in any other environment, at least make it a point to ask or have somebody haul the heavy load for you.

Analyze the Singularities and Pluralities in Your Life

When taking stock of this aspect, also consider zero, because a tool, a friend, a form of recreation, a professional or medical help may be the thing that is missing in your current state. Having one at the least can contribute well enough. Yet if your present occupation calls for having lots of social contacts and interactions, make sure to distinguish the important from the non-important. The point is to simply avoid swamping your life with too many social activities to the point of depriving yourself with rest and recreation.

Analyze Your Life’s Meaning

Are you doing tasks and chores because you perceive them as obligation to fulfill? Take care that you do not develop a perception that they are drudgeries that prevent you from doing other things that you want to do. Analyze why it is important to carry out activities that you think are hampering your lifestyle.

Consider potential consequences. Will the change improve your present condition without adversely affecting the status quo of the environment in which you live or work in? If it does, look for methods, devices or applications that will make chores less time consuming or boring.

Create a Checklist of What You Plan to Implement as Changes

While editing your life’s essay, create a checklist of the changes you plan to implement. You do not have to make drastic moves, by trying to change everything altogether all at once. However, weigh the important and rational effects of any adjustments you made before deciding to listen to those who are against it.

Rely on your own composition and not on the basis of other people’s opinion, because in an essay, you must take ownership of any conclusion or opinion you make.

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