Today we´re starting a series of articles where I´ll be showing you the content of my ebook first steps to reprogram your life, linking IT and computer science concepts with the world of personal development (typical me!). I hope you like it and find it helpful.

Very often in our life, we want to make a change, achieve a goal, make a dream come true... But we don't know where to start.

The truth is, it all begins in our minds. The human mind is an amazing artifact, a lot more powerful than any computer ever manufactured, and it can generate endless possibilities for our life. But for those possibilities to go in the direction that we want, we need to learn to make our minds work in our favour and not against us, which is what it unconsciously does sometimes.

Through these pages, I'm inviting you, by using a mobile phone as a metaphor, to explore how to reprogram your mind, and your life, to get closer to the results you want to obtain. Please, feel free to question any of the ideas you read here, try out the suggestions that resonate with you, and give yourself permission to not pay attention to the ones you don't find appropriate. At the end of the day, it's all about being curious and keeping an open mind, and experimenting in order to find what works best for each of us.

Enjoy the adventure! And if you would like to share your experience with me, feel free to email me at binarybea@binarywords.com, and I'll be delighted to read you.

Would you like to get as much out of your life as you get out of your phone?

Do you ever feel that you wouldn't be able to live without your phone? Isn't it amazing the amount of things we do on our phones every day? So many different apps that make our lives easier, from sending messages to paying at the supermarket, finding our way without getting lost, watching our favourite series...

A mobile phone is a wonderful tool, a really easy-to-use superpowerful computer compressed in a pocket-size format. And best of all, we can configure it in whichever way we like: we can set up a personalized background screen, install and uninstall apps as we see fit... We can greatly benefit from having a mobile phone, provided that we know how to use it correctly.

If only we had a similar thing for real life, right? Having the ability to press a button and make things happen magically, exactly how we want them to happen... Because, let's be honest, the benefits of mobile phones are great, but we all know that the best things in life happen outside the screen..

It is outside the screen where we really get to live, where we are faced with the joys, surprises and challenges that life puts in front of us. Where we want to change the things we don't like or the things we know could be a lot better than they are right now.

Wouldn't it be great to be able to install an app in our head to be able to make all those changes we want, to be able to configure our life in our own way?

Interestingly, the human mind is a lot more similar to a mobile phone or a computer than we may think: it's also "programmed" to work in a specific way, and those "programs" it uses (language and behaviour patterns, either inherited or learned) can be changed to enable whatever changes we want in our life.

OK, and how can we do that? Well, it may not be as simple and quick as pressing a button, but once you learn how to do it and start putting it into practice, you may be surprised by the results. You will need to be patient, though, and give it time and attention, because those old patterns have probably been installed there for a really long time, and initially, our brain finds it much more difficult to "execute" new programs than old ones.

Are you ready to start the adventure of reprogramming your life? Over the next few weeks, I'll give you eight tips to help you to take your first steps; let's go!