A Fresh Start and Renewal: Ten Steps to Change Your Habits

First: Pay attention to the level of calm inside you in all circumstances.

Second: Keep your mind clear of cluttering thoughts.

Third: Pay attention to how you view yourself, and speak positively about yourself.

Fourth: Choose sentences that express your outlook positively for each meeting or situation before you.

Fifth: Always expect to accept new changes in your conduct.

Sixth: Always speak about your immediate readiness to work toward a new behaviour for yourself.

Seventh: Speak about your confidence that you will get results right away.

Eighth: Speak about your gratitude to the Creator, glory and exaltation be to Him.

Ninth: Speak about your gratitude to yourself and to your awareness, by saying, "Praise be to God for my awareness."

Tenth: Speak about your wish to keep caring for your health and yourself.

Carrying out the steps above is essential in your life, and the more you repeat them, the more you can bring about changes within yourself and in your conduct. You can rid yourself of any negatives you wish to let go of. What matters is that you stay committed to the steps, because they genuinely help you persevere in the change you need.