Form 11 - Reading

Read the texts and choose the best heading to each one.

How To Change Your Life

This is what holds you back, and this is almost always the only thing between you and your goal. Spending too much time on social media? Download a blocking application. Can't find the motivation to go to the gym or go for a run? Force yourself to go, and promise yourself you can work as hard as you want once you arrive- but you have to go. Come up with strategies and ways to force yourself to make changes. It is not going to be easy, it is going to be really hard, but you will conquer your first major roadblock on the road to accomplishing your goals.

Starting to make sustainable progress, it is better to begin with manageable objectives. Want to change jobs? Apply to 5 jobs and send 5 introductory emails a week, and build from there. Want to lose weight? Go to the gym two or three times a week. Starting small is how you create a habit. If you run twice a week for a month, you can go three times a week the next month and then more.

It consists entirely of discipline. Disciplined people carve out time to get work done, or exercise, or whatever their goal may be wherever they are, and whenever they have a spare moment. People who habitually get up and go for a run, stick to a healthy diet and have their dream job built their life by dedicating time to their goals every day- it is the only way to make consistent progress.