Oct/Nov 2025 Aspire Magazine Full Issue | Page 22

Many attempts to change fail because we try to impose results without dealing with the fundamental root cause: our habitual beliefs that affect how we feel and act. SHIFTology ® works because it uses the way our brains are naturally wired.

We have over 60,000 daily thoughts. Most of them are the same as yesterday and the day before. We keep doing the same things again and again, hoping for different results, and that’ s not how change works.

Being aware of what you’ re thinking, doing, and feeling is the first step toward real change. Awareness is made up of your senses, such as sight, sound, touch, smell, and intuition. It allows us to choose a thought that makes us feel better when we observe one that doesn’ t. That one small choice

starts the shift toward being who you most want to be.

Imagine standing in a big meadow. You see a well-worn path before you. This path symbolizes your daily walk with the same 60,000 thoughts over and over. This path is easy and comfortable to walk on because you know it so well! To change is to have the courage to leave the well-trodden path you’ ve walked for days, months, or years.

Becoming conscious and aware of how we are thinking, feeling, and acting allows us to make new choices and shift in a different direction. The new path is faint at first and hard to see. Yet, every time we shift to this new path and continuously follow the route, it becomes deeper and stronger. The new path becomes the new habit. The new you