If you have food in your house, a roof over your head, a place to sleep and clothes to wear you are more wealthy then 75% of the world. 

“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” – J.R.R Tolkien

Nobody wants to believe changing our lives, creating happiness and achieving our goals is our choice, because that puts responsibility in their hands.  It's the same reason people self pity to delay action, to shame and judge others and the world as though the more they state what is wrong the more likely someone will change it for them.  But our true responsibility is the way we respond and create with our lives.  The real stuff we are all looking for is the product of an intentional, mindful, daily practice and it begins with choosing to commit to it. 

Walk as if you are blessed to touch this earth, breathe as if its your first breath. Be grateful for what already exists and what you can pursue.  If you are not grateful now happiness will become very hard to find when you have more, it will only be fleeting. 

Whatever you want your day to day life to entail doesn't matter the point is that you must stick to it to create changes.  Routine is important because habitualness creates mood and mood creates our perspectives and dispositions in life.  Also routine stops us from being pulled around by our impulsive feelings, triggers and the chaos of life.  

Fitness should be a lifestyle and about regaining your health more non-aesthetic motivation. Aesthetic motivation has its place however if it becomes the bridge to take on healthier practices alone, and it stays there you will be at the mercy of the mirror. It is sad if working out is about repenting your dietary sins or obtaining a society standard or look. 

In other words, choose progress, joy and not punishment.

The single biggest impediment to happiness and fulfilment results from an impaired awareness. Many people scurry about their daily lives absorbed in their thoughts, processing memories of pain and regret or expecting a future to arrive as they hope for.

They are not alive to the present moment but living in their thoughts. Suffering and pain ensues because they believe their thoughts to be true.

It is our imagination that is responsible for love not the other person.

In healing triggers, we change the way we perceive the world around us and our interactions with the people in it. If we can identify triggers and separate ourselves from the emotional reaction, we gain insight.