Have you ever thought about how you behave directly affects people you come into contact with? You may not realize this but all your behaviors actually have a great impact on the people around you. For instance, when you’re at work, you constantly whine about every single unfortunate event that’s happened to you for the past week or month. Yes you feel great after talking about it out loud, but have you ever imagined yourself being on the other end? Deadlines are already stressful enough for most people, yet you still have to endure the whiny complaints of your colleagues. What a life!

According to Wikipedia, “behavior” refers to the actions or reactions of an object or organism, usually in relation to the environment. Behavior can be conscious or unconscious, overt or covert, and voluntary or involuntary.

So, what kind of behaviors do you want to see or experience from people around you? Positive behaviors of course! Humorous, optimistic, and diligent behaviors are some of the good examples. Sure enough, you can’t change your behaviors overnight, unless you’ve experienced a drastic life event, such as death, marriage, birth, etc. And even so, the change might not be permanent and you’d most likely revert to your old behaviors after a short period of time. It should be simple and gradual process, in which you explore different ways to turn yourself into a more positive individual. You shouldn’t make the process overly laborious or rush it, otherwise you won’t stick to it. Instead, try the 30-day trial recommended by Steve Pavlina.

Thoughts influence actions. Actions influence behaviors. Behaviors influence results. To produce successful results, you need to have good behaviors (Mom was right about behaving yourself!). Good examples are behaviors that exude integrity, passion, and diligence. And because behaviors can be conscious or unconscious, you need to take actions to change your “bad” behaviors to good behaviors. Finally, if you’re reading this, you should understand if you are not aware of the need to change, you won’t change. That would be thoughts.

I’d like to recommend a coaching program by Bob Proctor that would plant great thoughts in your mind. Look to the right on the page that says “Six Minutes to Success” program and click on it. Register for the trial and give it a try. I’ve been with the program for 2 months and the results have been phenomenal! I get new ideas every day to work on and believe it or not, it’s improved my mental wellbeing significantly. I believe it’s important to do the mental exercise in the early morning so it can serve as a daily dose of motivation to drive you forward on what you do day in and day out.

Evidently, you don’t have to subscribe to only this particular program. There are definitely many other great programs out there but I just found this very useful. If you think that it’s costly though, think again. You pay $300 for a 1-year subscription and the videos are shown on weekdays. So that amounts to about a dollar and 15 cents per video. Are you willing to pay 115 cents a day to stay motivated throughout your life? I know I am. And if you break it down by the minutes, it’s less than 20 cents/minute out of 6 minutes a day. You invest few dollars per gym session to build up your body muscles and keep yourself fit and healthy. So why not invest a dollar in your mind? Now that’s truly healthy body, healthy mind.

Beginning from tomorrow, walk with your head held high. Behave as if you’re already at the top of your field. Don’t worry if you get bogged down by some negativity or distraction. Bring yourself back to positive track. Think only about good things. Talk only about good things. And most importantly, do good things! Appreciate things around you and praise someone for a job well done. Don’t criticize if you can’t come up with constructive criticism. Let’s do this together and change your life!

(Picture by Carl Johan from Flickr, Thanks!)