How to Change Your Life in the Next 6 Months

Internalise your life.

Beat yourself up. 

Decide you’re going to change. 

Commit tomorrow is the day. 

Wake up tomorrow. 

Give into the hard reality. 

Don’t do the things you said you would. 

Repeat. 

50 years later, you run out of ‘tomorrows’. 

Between 2016 to 2019 I thought I was trying to build something on the side. In reality, I was half pretending, half trying, and half giving in. Spinning up a Shopify store every couple of weeks when you see one of those ‘$1.5M in 3 Years’ stories, doesn’t qualify as trying. It’s reacting. 

Yet, in 2020 something shifted for me. On reflection, it was the moment I started digging away at this idea of self-belief and self-accountability. Before 2020, I was in the habit of letting myself down. 

Start with accountability

Slowly I started to build accountability with myself. I started doing the things I said I would and that, no joke, changed everything.

Here’s what happens when you start holding yourself to account: 

• Your interest turns into curiosity
• Which then turns into a purpose
• Which then turns into an obsession
• Which then turns into a duty

You start seeing it as your obligation to do the things you said you would because you respect yourself. Building self-respect means you start to unpick all the areas of your life you’re letting yourself down. 

You start to become the highest version of yourself. 

Spark urgency

In my own life, this process started with urgency. It started with a stark realisation, one that shocked me into action more than anything else has in my entire life:

“If I keep walking this path, they’ll be a day when I have no steps left.”

It was the realisation that I only have so much time. If I want to live a big life, if I want to fulfil my own vision of myself, craft a wonderful life for myself. 

If I want to do all those things. 

I must act now. 

Understand time

And part of that urgency comes from understanding time. You see, I used to think that it took as little as 6 months to create a profitable business. That timeline was in my favour.

At 24, I had so much time. 

Until I understood that really, to build a business that I’m proud of, one that can serve me for the rest of my life, that sort of ask is going to take 3–5 years. And it’s going to take 3–5 years to get good enough. 

Understanding how time works, how long things take and what the game is made me rethink everything. It shocked me into urgency. 

Demand better

“When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is, your life is just to live your life inside the world, try not to bash into the walls too much, try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money.

That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.”

It’s that one line that hits home for me every time: “One simple fact that is that everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you.”

It empowers you. It gives you ownership. It gives you permission to try. Not because you are different. But because have the same raw materials as everyone else. 

It’s liberating to know that actually, you do much more than you ever thought you were capable of. You start to demand better of yourself, the standards get higher. 

Expand the mind 

It’s funny. There is this gapping hole between what you think you are capable of (actually) and what you let yourself dream about. 

Here’s my view of it:

• Actual me: I thought I was actually capable of maybe a $40k/year job, in a big corporate, forever. 
• Dream me: I want to be a multi-millionaire, start a huge company and lead a tonne of people. 

Between those two things is a sea of opportunities. A happy medium. A realistic ambition. And one that is more aligned with everything I want in life. 

In a nutshell, you think too small, you dream too big. The opportunity is in the middle. 

And that’s not to say dreaming big is a bad thing but it’s a numbers game, you don’t need to be a multi-millionaire to have enough money (in most cases). 

Break beliefs 

This is what it comes down to. 

The single biggest thing you can do to turn your life around in 6 months. And by the way that doesn’t mean you’ll be a millionaire in 6 months, but rather somebody who is building the foundations to be financially free (or whatever your ideal state is). 

The core of the matter comes down to beliefs. To break the existing beliefs you have in order to make room for new, improved beliefs. 

Beliefs are the ideas in your head that (sometimes without proof) you adhere to. 

Some of mine before I started my journey 3 years ago:

• I’d only ever work a 9–5.
• I’d only ever make $40–50k a year. 

When you start to expose yourself to what else exists in the world, you start to realise that the world is much bigger than you think and your beliefs around money and jobs have been crafted by the world that you grew up in. 

Break those beliefs and you’re on the road to a new life.