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challenges where thousands of people around th e world work together to achieve their goals and dreams. Search 21DJC Day 4 If You Are To Travel Back in Time to 3 Years Ago, What Advice Would You Give Yourself? This is Day 4 of the 21-Day Journaling Challenge (21DJC) for Nov 2011. View list of tasks: 21DJC Overview . Hi everyone Welcome to Day 4 of 21DJC! Yesterday s question was: What is your ideal diet like? . It was interesting readin g your responses . Many of you seem to be in tune with what s best for your body, which is great! Many of you stressed on a diet that s filled in nutrition and void of empty calories, since the latter does not benefit our body. Many of you are committed to removing unhealthy, junk food from your diet; At the same a diet wi th high fruits and vegetables is a common visionacross the board. Me, my ideal diet is the raw vegan diet.One that s high in fresh fruits, vegetable s, and raw nuts. I came to this conclusion a couple of years ago, though it was only made conscious during my 21-day fast in Feb this year. At the moment I m on a veg*n diet, because I m still working on integrating the raw vegan diet into my lifestyle, since the society doesn t exactly accommodate for su ch a lifestyle. But intime to come, I imagine I d be on a high raw diet, before ev entually transiting to a full raw diet at some point. Ultimately all of us are different and have different needs, so go for the diett hat you feel best about. There s no need to feel compelled on a certain diet just because of what your parents,society, health magazines, or TV say. Go on a veget arian diet if it s in line with your beliefs in life. Go for a vegan diet if that s what you feel is highest for your being. Go for a pescetarian lifestyle if that s what you feel best about. Eat a meat-based diet if that s what s in line with your p ersonal values and beliefs. If you eat something only to feel bad about it afterwards, whether physically,me ntally, emotionally or spiritually, then it s a cue that it s probably not the ideal for you. This includes eating junk food on the spur of the moment, then beating yourself up over it or feeling guilty about it after that. While you can argue that it s a treat and you deserve it, the point is you yourself al ready acknowledge the food is bad and feel bad about eating it afterwards. This in itself suggests a misalignment in your wants/needs that needs to be worked th rough, vs. allowing the conflicting behavior to perpetuate. Either you have a candy bar because you *truly* feel it s the best thing for your body, or you don t have that. Youcan t be thinking this candy bar isn t good and still h ave that in your ideal diet. That doesn t make any sense at all; it s a contradictio n in itself. Ideal means something that s the highest of it all; something you ack nowledge to be the best of the best for yourself. In the end, your ideal diet should be one which you feel 110% emotionally, physi cally, mentally and spiritually both inthe short-run and in the long-run - nothi ng less than that. By having a clear idea of what your ideal diet is, it brings awareness to what you want to feed your body with. This makes it easier for you to achieve this goal in the long run. While I have a vision of what my ideal diet is, I m far from it at the moment ther e are times when I go off track with my diet due to emotional eating, lack of my desired food, or circumstances. But the important thing is I always work on get ting back on track. Being on your ideal diet may not happen overnight, but the i mportant thing is you move closer toward it, and work on integrating it into you r lifestyle, day by day. In time, you realizeyou are exactly where you want to b e. With that said, let s now move to today s question! 21DJC Day 4 Today s question is a fun one one which involves some imagination and thinking out side of our current framework of time:

If You Are To Travel Back in Time to3 Years Ago, What Advice Would You Give Your self? How old would you be 3 years ago? What was happening at that time? What would yo u say to yourself? And why? (Today s question can be found in #21 of 101 Important Questions To Ask Yourself I n Life .) Put on your reflection cap and let your thoughts flow. Below is an empty form wh ich you can use to write your answers to the question. Treat it as your private 21DJC journaling room , if you will. You will be seeing this form every day, for th e 21 days of the challenge. There s a button for you to keep track of your word co unt too, if you re interested. (Note you will not see the form below if you re viewing this in your email client. Visit the actual post online to see the form.) If You Are To Travel Back in Time to3 Years Ago, What Advice Would You Give Your self? [include_HTML: http://personalexcellence.co/challenges/21djc/wordcount.php] Your Task Today: 1. Reflect and answer today s question . There s no word limit whether minimum or ma ximum. Writeas few or as many words as you want. It s all up to what you want toex press! 2. Share your answer . After you are done writing, copy and paste your answer in the comments area and post it there. 3. Check out other participants answers . Other participants will be sharing thei r answers too, so feel freeto read and reply to their answers . This is a group course, so let s support each other in these 21 days. Look forward to reading your answers! This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 9th, 2011 at 4:04 pm and isfilled u nder: 21-Day Journaling Challenge 258 Responses to ??DJC Day 4 If You Are To Travel Back in Time to3 Years Ago, Wh at Advice Would You Give Yourself? Kamal Says: November 9th, 2011 at 5:02 pm I would be 36 years old 3 years ago. A lot of changes would be taking effect in my life at that time. I would like to say to myself that whatever I plan for my future, I should stick to it and do not waste a single moment of my life doing w ork which is least important. I would tell myself to give priority to most impor tant things first. I would tell myself to be more practical in life and do not g et emotionally involved with everyone / everything. Would like to live my own li fe instead of handing overthe remote control of my life to someone else. Because, what I planned 3 years ago didn t gone as per the planning I wasted a lot of my time doing unnecessary or less important work which I do not want to repeat now 3 years ago I get emotionally attached to everything / everyone, due to which I was unable to take practical decisions ..this is what I do not want to repeat in my future 3 years ago, I always compromised my lifestyle, I spent my life to always make others happy by fulfilling their unendingdemands ..due to which I forgot to live my own life as I wanted to. In all, I wasted a lot of precious time and learned a lesson from it. Now I m much more practical then ever and do my work as planned and trying to live the life which I always wanted to. Like: +3 MrsSilver Says: November 9th, 2011 at 5:02 pm Three years ago I was very depressed and unhappy. I made myself go to school in a foreign country even though I didn t really want to, I didn t feel inspired and I wa sn t able to take in or appreciate what was taught there. I paid a high tuition (s tudent loan) and I managed to almost get all A s (I got a couple of B s only because Iwas absent from class, the reason why is I would get panic attacks and I just couldn t make myself go there, it caused me too much anxiety). I did have a fairly good time with both my siblings that were also studying abroad at the same scho ol as me and we shared an apartment together. However, my ex-husband also lived

with us pretty much that whole period (that s also when we decided to get married) and it wasn t until a year and ahalf later that I realized the two of us shouldn t be together. I had some major self confidence issues three yearsago, but mainly I just wasn t happy at all in that relationship. In the end, I wouldn t change anyth ing, because based on every decision and every stepI d taken earlier in my life, I met the special someone who I actually belong with. I couldn t have a better rela tionship than the one I m in today and it just keeps getting better too! Looking back, I would tell myself these three things; 1) Don t worry so much about everything 2) It will all work out in the end 3) You really are very talented and beautiful inside and out Like: +7 Kamal Says: November 9th, 2011 at 5:10 pm Well said Mrs. Silver . Everything would work out in the end if we stay positive and happy inside. Like: +3 cloudio Says: November 9th, 2011 at 5:12 pm I am so perfectionist, if I can travel back to this morning I would change atlea st 100 things. That s why if I can travel back to 3 years ago, I probably wouldn t change a bit. Everything happened to me, it was for a reason: give me opportunity to grow. Think about the movie sliding doors or the zen story maybe . Errare humanum est, perseverare autem diabolicum: you make mistakes so you can l earn from them. Just avoid repeat the same twice. Still I would like to think less about the past or the future, and just live mor e intensely the present moment. Like: +9 Kamal Says: November 9th, 2011 at 5:20 pm Very correct dear Cloudio . Everyone makes mistakes in his / her life .the best thing would be that we should learn from our mistakes and should not repeat the same again. Like: +1 Kamal Says: November 9th, 2011 at 5:20 pm Very correct dear Cloudio . Everyone makes mistakes in his / her life .the best thing would be that we should learn from our mistakes and should not repeat the same again. Like: +1 Glenn Says: November 9th, 2011 at 5:37 pm The advice I would give myself if I wereto travel back in time 3 years. Firstly I just had to check what I was doing three years ago. So I checked onmy Vimeo page to see what videos I d made around that time. Ahh yes, and now I see. Three years ago was 2008. I had madesome nice videos that year. Around that time I was about to shoot a short film for a guy who d contacted me fromBrisbane. It w as for a film festival called Tropfest and the movie made it into the finals. So I wouldn t change anything about that, although I would assure myself that I had nothing to worry about when shooting it. Maybe I would tell myself to avoid the one the guy made the following year, which didn t do so well. I would also let myself know about all the essential video techniques I ve onlylea rnt about during the past 3 years. Inorder to avoid technical problems that made some of the work I do quite difficult throughout those 3 years until Idiscovere d those solutions. In fact, one I thing I would tell myself isnot to focus too much on making an in come from making music videos. Instead focus on ways of earning a passive income . One way may have been to focus on my sound design business. Or to begin concen trating on recording my own music again, to focuson just using one software pack

age to record the music and how to go about it. Techniques I ve I ve been refining o ver the past few years. If I was to continue shooting videos for people, that I should just stick to the cinematography side of things. Simplifying my life, that s another important recommendation. Start early removing all the junk I no longer need. To sell everything on eBay asap, which is someth ing I m only just about to begin doing now. That way I could already begin clearin g out the back shed freeing up more space to use it asa greenscreen room I could use to shoot videos which would be permanently set up ready to go. I d tellmyself not to be afraid to sell my Star Wars collection, my record collection, some of my parents belongings and other sentimental items, as these are things I don t ne ed that are just wasting space. If we didn t already have tiles on the floor back then, I d make sure to tell myself to get the studio tiled as well, just to save having to get it done againlater. There are also a lot of other similar and minor trivial things I would recommen d doing. Which include otherhome improvement tips that my wife and I would benef it from. Something else I d make clear would bethe people I should be following. Whichfrien ds to connect with and those I should look to for inspiration. To make sure I le t myself know about websites such as celestinechua.comI wasn t familiar with back then. And also alert myself to the people I would be best avoiding at all costs. Along with certain websites and blogs I shouldn t waste my time visiting. I would even encourage myself to set up a decent blog I can use to teach people somethi ng, and to post to it on a regular basis. As far as food goes, I would certainly get the message across to quit wheat glut en and chocolate and caffeine, along with a few of the other points I raised in my ideal diet journal entry fromyesterday. All quite important. I would even rec ommend a long fast like the 24day fast I did, but maybe only for two weeks. To a lso let myself know about any recipes I ve only discovered in the past year or two that I enjoy a lot, but are still healthy. And I think that just about covers everything. The main thing though would just be to inspire myself to be the better person I need to be. To take action and ma ke the effort to do what needs to be done. To be better than the person I am tod ay even. To avoid any short cuts that may appear along the way, as they never wo rk out.And not to try doing too much at once, but to focus on the task at hand, complete it and then move onto the next. Like: +3 Amanda Says: November 9th, 2011 at 5:42 pm 3 years ago. I was 28 years old. I was still of the mindset that we might have m ore children and spent many hours obsessing about it. My husband and I had just passer our 1 year anniversary of buying our house. If I could go back in time, I would tell myself that childrenwere not an option for us. That we while that dr eam would not come true,there are other dreams that can be realized. I would tel l myself it was ok tocry over the loss of this dream, but to not dwell on it for too long. I would also tell myself that good friends will come and go but great friends wi ll always be there for you. I would tell myself it is ok to say no sometimes and that if someone gets mad at you for it, they shouldn t be in your life. Like: +3 Ida Says: November 9th, 2011 at 6:00 pm 3 years back, I was just an eighteen year old girl stepping out from home into a foreign country, a foreign world beginning my undergraduate studies on my own, more 30 000miles away. Don t be afraid. Don t worry too much.Don t cry, there is still tomorrow, This is what I will say to myself. I have no regrets for what I ve done, been through and experi enced but more courage won t hurt. Like: +2 Mary Jane Hoover Says: November 9th, 2011 at 6:19 pm

Three years ago I would tell my self: Advocate for your health, doctors do miss things and my doctor s nurse practitione r found need to send me forextra tests three years later (4 months ago) I have h ad surgery for the same thing twice in the past 45 days. and amfacing other heal th concerns that just showed up in the tests they recently did. Listen to your b ody and know thatit tells you when you are ill, some doctors will tell you its a ll in your mind, or its due to this other condition. Then I would stop smoking, exercise and eat healthier. What I am doing now. I would tell myself: EVERY DAY YOU DON T SPEND LIVING, YOU SPEND DYING. YOU ARE NOT GUARENTEED TOMORROW AND TODAY IS A PRESENT, DO I WANT TOSPEND MY PRESENT DYING OR LIVING? i CAN DIE ANYTIME SO WHY NOT MAKE EACH MINUTE TODAY A LIVING MINUTE. And I would take risks, not to end my life, but to not have regrets because I sp ent my life dying instead of living. Oh the wisdom of even three years! Like: +5 ganeshmuthiah Says: November 9th, 2011 at 6:50 pm This is rather a simple question, there isnothing that i would regret and the pa ss is a library of my personal moments. 1) Complete my study 2) Take action on yearly personal improvement plan 3) Start my online business/blogging Like: +1 lotusbleu Says: November 9th, 2011 at 6:57 pm Read (more books). Run (more km). Relax (more often). Like: +4 Peggy Says: November 9th, 2011 at 7:07 pm Don t gain the weight back. Stop buying expensive wine and spending money. Save for a rainy day. (It sure is raining now) Like: +3 Lorraine Simmons Says: November 9th, 2011 at 7:24 pm Three years ago I was 35 and running around spending money on shoes and handbags and other frivolous things. I had no idea that my life would change dramaticall y in those 3 years, starting with the passing of my grandfather, and my mother a lmost dying. The lessons I learned were invaluable. So I would tell myself: 1. No matter what, don t lose your faith, God always comes through. 2. Finish your degree, you will need it very soon for your dream job. 3. Take care of your health. High bloodpressure at 38 is not good! Like: +4 Margaret Says: November 9th, 2011 at 7:39 pm Margaret, everything ALWAYS works out for you Never worry, never fear,never look ba ck you always got what you asked for, and you always will .Watch your thoughts, they create your world ..You are loved and watched over, always .. Like: +4 Nancy Says: November 9th, 2011 at 7:47 pm This is another easy one for me 3 years ago I was about 15 pounds thinner so I d a dvise myself not to slackoff the points counting because one slack leads to anot her, which leads to another and before you know it, you ve fallen off the wagon co mpletely and on your way to fat town!! I had made a promise to myself 5 years ag o to lose 50 pounds by the time I was 50and I did it!! But it only took me a yea r and I maintained for about another year before the slacking began so now I m back on track, but I turned 50without being at my goal weight and it makes me sad. I try not to beat myself up too much about it, but i hated having to size up this

fall hopefully all my new, bigger clothes will be too big soon!!! Like: +1 Emma Says: November 9th, 2011 at 7:50 pm if i can travel back to 3 years ago, i would told myself to make good use of the time and be more concentrated. Time management and concentration iswhat I lack. I can grab and learn more things if i am not very easily get distracted. I would gain more experience and achieve all my goals if I make use of my 24 hou rs a day. Like: +1 Rachel Says: November 9th, 2011 at 7:54 pm Day 4: The first thing that comes to mind is, Don t do it! But that is just a humorous defe nse mechanism for a rough patch. Honestly, I would tell myself this: Do not wait. Just buy the tickets to London and visit your friend. It will be worth it in the long run even though it seems like a lot of money. And while you re at it, do not wait to mend the other friends hip that is spiraling out of control. Own that it might not be perfect, but it i s still worth the effort! And make sure to be generous with your attention and t ime and money. Call your brother. Listen to your grandmother, really listen. Make time for yourself each day to workout/meditate/read even 15 minutes will do. Do n t forget to floss. Like: +1 Ashok Says: November 9th, 2011 at 7:56 pm I would advice that I spend time connecting with myself deeply and discover my t rue strengths. Do more ofwhat would enhance my strengths andless of fretting and worrying about things that are beyond my control. Eat more healthy and get more exercise. Do more meditation, regularly. Spend quality time with wife and daugh ter. Try to work on the bucket list. Spend more time on business and ensure high quality products and high quality life for employees. Like: +1 Jeffrey Q Says: November 9th, 2011 at 7:57 pm Three years ago, I would have been 25years old and somewhere feeling lost. That s not to say I m not still feeling lost now, but I think I have a better sense of di rection now. At that time, I was still working as a software developer and I gue ss somewhat content. I m not really sure if I would have muchto say. I believe that we all take our own path and I haven t really made anyjudgments/decisions about the past 3 years that I think I could have done any other way. I did take a huge leap though about 2 years back, and maybeI would tell myself to be less afraid and just go back to s chool (earlier). I wouldtry to teach my past self to be less paralyzed by fear. Now if I could actually give myself cheats and insight into the reality of the f uture/present, I d give my past self information about the present that could be u sed for financial gain, like lottery ticket numbers and stock market data. =P Like: 0 AH888 Says: November 9th, 2011 at 7:59 pm 3 years ago, I was going through a deep depression upon learning that my husband and I were unable to concieve. I would have advised myself to not worry so much about whether I will ever have a baby because I can live a full and joyful life without having children. I would tell myself to just go ahead and engage in the activities that I enjoy because my creative interests are very healing and ther aputic for me. I would have assured myself that I can and will make peace with i t, and to focus on the positive aspects of not having children (there are many). I would have told myself to keep the faith and trust myself, my body, and the Uni verse. And I would have told myself that I will adjust to my circumstances whate

ver they may be that everything will be OK better than OK! Like: +2 aileen Says: November 9th, 2011 at 8:00 pm Never say anything negative at my job at work to anyone. Move to be closer to th e job. Make lasting friendships at work but only say personal things to people o utside of work. I would always have a smile on my face or take breaks outside if I started to feel stressed. Put myself and my work first, before my significant other. I would be more careful in understanding my health and put it first. I would find healthy ways to relieve stress such as massage, exercise, music,art , etc rather than spending money. Like: 0 cloudio Says: November 9th, 2011 at 8:08 pm which unfortunately it is not so easy, since we keep repeating over and over the same mistakes Like: +1 Ezza Says: November 9th, 2011 at 8:17 pm I believe travelling back in time Celes, is a fantastic idea and lovely to refle ct on how much the world, the people and you have changed. It s amazing. I would be 24 years old and just getting settled to the Gold Coast life We moved from country town to the big city for my husband and I, it was the biggest chang e in our life but somehow we were doing the same things before NLP, entrepreneur ship and personal development entered our lives. We were almost out of debt, get ting better money, thinking of having children, maybe buying a new house in two years time and I didn t have to work but put time into next page 1