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One of the questions we get asked all the time is “how do I get started in changing my life?” For many people, taking steps to consciously change your life feels overwhelming, and it should be. We aren’t used to taking steps to think about the direction our life is going on and how we can make a few simple choices to completely transform it around. We think that we have to make some grand gestures and huge actions steps, but that’s not always the case.

The first step is the hardest, and that is, first you have to decide to change. It may sound simple, especially since there aren’t really any action steps, but making the decision to change means that you are admitting that you need to make different choices than you have been making.

Once you have decided to change, and that you will take the necessary steps to do that, you are well on your way to a transformed life!

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• DREAMS VS REALITY PODCAST
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We recently put the question out on our Facebook Page (https://www.facebook.com/gystpodcast/) and asked people how they would define Personal Development. The responses we got back were very interesting. Here are a few of them:

“Having the eagerness to want to learn, educate, and expand your horizons for positive results. Personal Development is about creating a journey of progress and ambition”- Jayne Werner

“A competition with yourself. The goal is to make yourself a better person than you are today. You can use other people as inspiration, but you are your own benchmark”– Katey Mathews

“It’s reprogramming the language of your mind”- Varun Seth

All fantastic ideas, and all very unique from each other. That’s the thing about personal development, it’s “personal” and your own journey is going to be drastically different that anyone else’s. We all have different measuring points for what is out of our comfort zone. For some it’s speaking in front of 5 people, for others is becoming a better parent, while for someone else it could be to make their first million dollars in a year. What Katey said above is important, it’s a competition with yourself and overcoming your self-limiting beliefs.

We all say we want to improve our lives, but not all of us are willing to take those steps. Join us as we explore 4 Reasons People Avoid Personal Development.

People constantly one up each other. Either in an effort to show how better they are, or to show how much struggle they have gone through and survived. But why do they do that? Why is it so important for people to compare themselves? How does it make you feel when people do that to you?

We all want to achieve a fine work life balance. One where we are the best employee we can be, as well as the best family member or friend. In this podcast we talk about how difficult it can be to live a whole life, where you accelerate at work and surround yourself with people who love you.

If you just focus on one, and not the other, you are inviting a life of high stress and mediocrity.

When we are kids, we dream of being astronauts, ballerinas, baseball players, and scientists. We have these incredible dreams, confined only within our imaginations. Little by little we let go of those dreams and realize that life is far from that which we once dreamed. Join the GYST Podcast Crew with our special guest, Robyn Olson.

Robyn has competed in professional pageants and is pursuing her dream of fashion. Recently her work was on display for the world to see, when during the Miss America Pageant, Miss Washington (Lizzi Jackson) wore a dress that Robyn made for her.