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How To Be The Best You Can Be
Obviously, you need to feel good about yourself in order to find happiness and fulfillment in life. However, that can be easier said than done. How can you take steps to improve your self-esteem? Try the practical suggestions provided in this article to help increase your estimate of your self-worth. Changing habits can be challenging yet very rewarding in your quest to find balance. If you would like to change any habit, it is important to create a goal and a plan to get there. You also need a way to track your progress. If you wanted to quit eating junk food for instance, a good way to get to this goal would be to save up all the money you saved on junk food any buy yourself a nice reward to remind you of your success.
Personal Development
Change can be intrinsically frightening, but one key to successful personal development is mastering that fear. Personal development is the art of fostering positive changes in oneself. This is not an art that can be practiced without recognizing that the external world is constantly changing too. Embracing change outside can lead to better results encouraging change inside. At what age does personality develop? This post from Cliffs Notes is full of information and insights so read it on its entirety.Health
An important tip that will improve every area of your life is to get a good night’s sleep. Intellectually we all know this already, but few of us take it to heart. Proper rest is essential to restore the body, but also to reduce stress and inflammation, protect our heart, regulate our hormones, and improve our memory. A good night’s sleep is 6-8 hours ” and some people need more. Your health and your outlook will improve greatly when you make a good night’s rest a serious priority. By building your self-esteem, you give yourself a better chance at a successful life. Your self-confidence is lifted, your relationships are improved and your outlook is more positive. The tips you have just read are all simple and easy to implement. Try some of them today and start feeling better about yourself. Nothing is more frustrating than trying to better yourself and being constantly beaten backwards. Embarking on the adventure of personal development can sometimes seem similar to trying to scale Mount Everest and finding that, every time you make a little progress, you suddenly start sliding down the mountain all the way back to base camp. You’ve done the training, got the right equipment and tools but you just don’t seem to be getting anywhere – and fast!
The first thing to realize is that, in endeavouring to better yourself and your lot in life, you never ever end up back at base camp – it just feels that way. Once you’ve even open your mind to the possibility that life can hold so much more for you than the normal dead-from-the-neck-up person could ever imagine, there is no going back to the old life. Despite the apparent fact that you’re not making any progress, you always are – there is no step, however small, wasted on the journey towards self-fulfilment.
Personality Development
More importantly, however, you must understand that, in trying to open your mind to what psychology calls flow, you are up against it. You’re up against millions of years of psychological evolution that has rendered your very own normal mind a powerful foe. The normal mind is hard-wired to believe the worst. Psychology tells us that the subconscious mind is ever backward looking, obsessed as it is by its ‘stored knowledge’ – that body of learning which we all imbibed during our so-called formative years. This is your default state of mind and, no matter how hard you try, every morning when you wake up, your mind will have reset itself to these default settings. Worse than that, research also tells us that, in looking backwards, the subconscious is predisposed to focus on our negative stored knowledge – the bad stuff is easier to believe, we are always more likely to look at the worst. It is this negative tendency that leads to the ubiquitous curse of worry. It is this self same negative focus that leads to feelings of self-doubt, inadequacy and low self esteem. And, remember, these are your default settings. Not only that, they are the default settings of all normal minds – they are all around us – so there is comfort to be gained in belonging to a herd of mindless idiots.
The problem most of us face is that we end up blaming ourselves for our own tendencies. But there is no merit in playing the blame game. You are not to blame for your default state of mind – it is simply the norm of the adult human condition. Nor are you to blame for the feelings of inadequacy that plaque your mind. These feelings – and your consequent day-to-day behaviour – are not your fault. They do not relate to anything that you have done – they relate to what was done to you or for you during those formative years. They are irrelevant to who you are now and, more importantly, who you could be now.
Faced with these obstacles, it is little wonder that we feel that we continually end up back at base camp. But these are obstacles that, in even exploring the possibility that you could get more out of life, you know you can overcome – and even do from time to time! The trick is not to become discouraged on your journey. The secret is to soldier on. And the true warrior is one who is prepared to persevere and, ignoring the passing trials and tribulations that today will inevitably throw at us, will pick oneself up, dust oneself off and start over – every single time he or she slips or falls.
In soldiering on, you must realize that your default state of mind will never change – as I’ve said, that’s the way you’re wired. You must also realize that your stored knowledge is well stored under the lock and key of your subconscious mind. Your formative experiences are part of who you are, they will not change nor will they ever go away. But that should not be an ongoing obstacle because, as one who is seeking to better themselves, you must understand that you have a choice as to whether or not you will give these out-dated subconscious snapshots your energy and attention.
