Thanks for posting this. You have opened a wide theme.
Every few years I go deeply into a process of re-aranging my life. Sometimes more succesfully, sometimes less. By now I could say I did fairly well.
Two month ago I was again at the begining of this stage to re-evalue and re-arange it once more.
The process of inner growth and moving towards our dream life should be known to us. I am not sure it is. Generation after generation is becoming more and more distant from our basic Being.
I found few very good books and audio recordings with explanation and tips to understand the process of changing ourselves and then really doing it. Lots of helpfull advice comes from Napoleon Hill, Alan Watts, Bob Proctor and as you listen them on Youtube, new suggestions will appear by the side. More or less they all have a base in researches from 20s.
They all talk about a way, how to build your life as you have always dreamed about it. They talk a lot about repetition. It might seem to plain and unusefull at first. But its so important, really. Important, because through the process of change you can come efectively only if you change your paradigm. It is not easy when you don't know how. But when you do... :) Then it's so easy to truly understand all the points above, you talk about.
Wow.. Hope the steps you took is turning out good for ya?
It's good you did something about it.
Well if you do all above and most of all you stay active and you follow your plan it works. This time I am a bit older or shoud I say mature and I took it very seriously. The system itself. I am really following the rules and building step by step. Most interesting thing is - when you overcome your fears (with a determine decision to do something about it) and you make plans and you become active and you don't stop - now I am way more relaxed and I have way more fun doing my work and consequently more sucess, for example. I even have time to spend on Steemit :) If you change focusing on problems to focusing on solutions, you are already half way there. Optimism makes miracles.