PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
A dedicated woman looking for self-improvement /Photo Courtesy/ Rahul ShahPay the Price
Changing
from one thing to the next requires effort. The effort needed must be performed
by the person looking to change. You cannot achieve self-improvement without
effort. You must be willing to identify the area that needs change or
improvement and commit to activities that will bring you the desired change. To
become the new person that you want to become. You must decide as an individual
to get to work. The individual must take the first initiative to create any
form of improvement or change. It does not matter how many people are rooting
for you. Unless you as the individual decide that change is needed. The people
supporting you can only do so much. Change is personal and the person looking
for change must be willing to pay the price. You must be willing to work hard.
And commit to the process of change from beginning to the end.
You
the individual, must be the most motivated above everyone else. You should practically
be driving the change you need. You should become the leader in your own
change. Make difficult decisions. Be courageous. Don’t hide when it becomes
hard. Show up every day no matter your mood. Do the work that will get you to
your desired change. Any self-improvement is hard work. You must accept that
hard work and do the activities. It will be a long road. However, don’t focus
on the road. Focus on how much you are doing every day to cover every mile on
the road. Fight for your improvement. It will be a tough journey. However, if
improvement is what you are looking for, you will get it. As long as, you
remain in the game. As you can see, self-improvement is a process of
decision-making and commitment. You first decide that something needs to
change. Something that you don’t like. Then you get committed to the process
that leads you to the desired outcome. Discover these three self-improvement tools
and solve what has been bothering you.
Journaling
Journaling
is a very powerful self-improvement tool. The activity not only helps you to
process your thoughts but also document every thought. It helps you to capture
what is going on every day in your mind. When you take up journaling as your
self-improvement tool, you will be able to document your feelings, thoughts,
and everything else that you deem is holding you back. This is a very
interactive tool that will also help you discover wrong patterns in your
thoughts. For instance, if you suffer from anger. Journaling will help you
release hot emotions of anger and revenge. You will begin the journaling
process by stating what is making you so angry. Here, you will write down
everything that you are angry with or about. Then, you move to the next stage
of documenting how things you are angry with are making you feel.
Hard working young men looking for best self-improvement tools /Photo Courtesy/ MART PRODUCTION
Write
down everything you feel like doing when angry. Does being angry make you want
to hurt other people? What goes on in your mind the moment you are triggered?
Journal everything. By the time you would have finished discussing what is
going on in your thoughts and feelings. You will be good. The anger will have
gone. The strong emotions will have gone. There will be no lashing, shouting, or
cussing. All the toxicity would have been captured on the journal. The
journaling activity would have helped you to talk about your anger problem.
This resource will help you to release bad emotions. And you would not be
negatively affected as you would have kept all those feelings and emotions
inside. Journaling will help you to open up and speak about things that matter,
and concern you. Through journaling, you will learn what triggers your
emotions.
And
once you get to understand things that provoke you. You learn to take back
control. You identify things and people that anger you and how they do it.
These are important insights. The intelligence you collected after journaling
will shape your next action. In the future, instead of going rogue when angry.
You will learn to slow down. To be more in charge not the people or things that
provoke you. One of the most visible aspect of journaling is the power it gives
you to talk. Just sitting down and writing about everything that concerns you.
Your worries. Your progress. Your failures. Everything that you deem important.
Journaling helps you capture your thoughts and what is going on in your mind.
If you embrace this tool and use it every day, you will experience tremendous
change in your life.
Reading
Reading
is a tool that can result in skill development, gaining new knowledge in a
given field, or even advancing your education. The books you read will
introduce you to new things. You will learn a lot of things in the books,
articles, or newsletters. All this information will transform you. You will not
be the same person you were two years ago. Your thoughts, approaches, and way
of life will change. You will grow past your prejudices, ignorance, and
toxicity. You will learn to do things the right way. You will become a rational
thinker. You will not speak because you can. You will only speak because you
have something important to share. Reading will also help you learn how to use
your resources. You will understand that it is not about being favorable. It is
not about being liked by everybody. But rather about you and what matters to
you.
New
knowledge will teach you that it is very difficult to please people. And you
have no business trying to achieve favorable because there is nothing called
favorable. You can only be who you are. Things can only be what they are. Good
or bad. Not favorable. You will discover all these things by embracing reading
and making it a tool that helps you to self-improve. You are a much better
person by living empowered compared to living ignorant. As an empowered person,
you become so valuable. You have solutions. You can help a lot of people. You
can make difficult decisions. You can cross bridges that you could initially
not cross. You become so much more by reading different things or attending
different trainings. The new knowledge that you acquire through reading will
propel you into new opportunities.
A frustrated man pondering how to achieve goals /Photo/ Thirdman
This
is what life is all about. People committing to becoming better every day. People
identifying things that matter to them and committing to those things. You just
don’t stand on the same spot for 50 years. You keep moving. Because the world
is changing every day. Five decades ago, you might have been the best kept
secret in your industry. However, a lot of things change in 50 years. The
knowledge you acquired gradually starts waning off with every new discovery and
innovation. And you don’t want to lag behind. Reading can help you fill the
gaps in your industry. The practice of reading can help you keep up with new
trends and changes taking place in the marketplace. We live in a very
productive world. It out do itself all the time. This means that you will not
lack anything to read. Books, scientific discoveries, research findings,
articles, and business reports will always be in constant supply. Start
reading.
Set Goals
There
are things that matter to you. Sit down and mastermind how you will achieve
them. Learn about the cost of each item on your list. Identify how and where
you will source the money needed to meet every cost. This step is important.
Knowing the cost of each item will transition you from being a mere thinker.
You will become a rational objective thinker. Who will understand that to
achieve what you want, hard work will be needed. You will have to sacrifice
your comfort zone. You will need to roll your sleeves and get things done. You
will have to prioritize what goes first and what follows. You will need to
learn everything that goes into getting something from the ground up. You will
learn what it means to pay the price. You will also learn what taking the right
steps means. There will be no room for laziness.
Setting
goals is an everyday activity. You must know where you are going and how you
are going. You just don’t wake up and go. You must have a plan of how you are
going. Cost every step in your journey. Know your beginning and your ending.
Learn what each stage will cost you. How much energy will you need to begin and
how much energy will you need to finish. Set goals for every step in your
important matters. Seek to understand how you begin and end your project.
Whatever it is that you are interested to accomplish, learn all the steps. Have
some reasons why you are doing it. What does doing it means to you? What are
you looking to achieve? And what will, achieving it make you feel? Think about
all these things. Don’t be just busy because everyone else is busy. Have a
reason for your busy. Have some reason why you are waking up in the middle of
the night to do certain things.
Set
goals for every step in your important project or matter. Begin by defining why
you want to participate in the project. List all the benefits that completing
the project will bring to you. Now address the elephant in the room. How much
will it cost from beginning to end? Come to terms with each cost. And after you
have spent some time with the cost. Ask yourself if, you can afford it now. And
if you learn that you cannot afford it now. What are you going to do to afford
it now. If, the project must be completed in the next few months. Are you
willing to shoulder the heavy weight? Do you have the energy? What are you
going to do? Think about everything. And only proceed when you are sure of what
you are doing. That is what goal setting does to you. It helps you to justify
why some actions are needed now or not needed at all. You must have a reason
before taking on any project.
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