7 Days Of Improving Your Life
I seem to lost count on how many times I’ve read and heard of celebrity marriages failing almost left and right. Not that I care (and personally I don’t), it seems strange that we often see movie and TV stars as flawless people, living the fairytale life of riches and glamor. I suppose we all have to stop sticking our heads in the clouds and face reality.
There are many ways to lose your sense of self-esteem despite of how trivial it could get. But whatever happens, we should all try not to lose our own sense of self while improving your life.
So what does it take to be a cut above the rest? Here are some of the things you can think and improve on that should be enough for a week.
1. Know your purpose
Are you wandering through life with little direction – hoping that you’ll find happiness, health and prosperity? Identify your life purpose or mission statement and you will have your own unique compass that will lead you to your truth north every time.
This may seem tricky at first when you see yourself to be in a tight or even dead end. But there’s always that little loophole to turn things around and you can make a big difference to yourself.
2. Know your values
What do you value most? Make a list of your top 5 values. Some examples are security, freedom, family, spiritual development, learning. As you set your goals for 2005 – check your goals against your values. If the goal doesn’t align with any of your top five values – you may want to reconsider it or revise it.
The number shouldn’t discourage you, instead it should motivate you to do more than you can ever dreamed of.
3. Know your needs
Unmet needs can keep you from living authentically. Take care of yourself. Do you have a need to be acknowledged, to be right, to be in control, to be loved? There are so many people who lived their lives without realizing their dreams and most of them end up being stressed or even depressed for that matter. List your top four needs and get them met before it’s too late!
4. Know your passions
You know who you are and what you truly enjoy in life. Obstacles like doubt and lack of enthusiasm will only hinder you, but will not derail your chance to become the person you ought to be. Express yourself and honor the people who has inspired you to become the very person you wanted to be.
5. Live from the inside out
Increase your awareness of your inner wisdom by regularly reflecting in silence. Commune with nature. Breathe deeply to quiet your distracted mind. For most of us city slickers it’s hard to even find the peace and quiet we want even in our own home. In my case I often just sit in a dimly lit room and play some classical music. There’s sound, yes, but music does soothe the savage beast.
6. Honor your strengths
What are your positive traits? What special talents do you have? List three – if you get stuck, ask those closest to you to help identify these. Are you imaginative, witty, good with your hands? Find ways to express your authentic self through your strengths. You can increase your self-confidence when you can share what you know to others.
7. Serve others
When you live authentically, you may find that you develop an interconnected sense of being. When you are true to who you are, living your purpose and giving of your talents to the world around you, you give back in service what you came to share with others -your spirit – your essence. The rewards for sharing your gift with those close to you is indeed rewarding, much more if it were to be the eyes of a stranger who can appreciate what you have done to them.
Self-improvement is indeed one type of work that is worth it.A personal life coach may be able to help you. It shouldn’t always be within the confines of an office building, or maybe in the four corners of your own room. The difference lies within ourselves and how much we want to change for the better.
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6 Tips For Improving Your Life
In a tough environment it’s hard to maintain our self esteem. How do you stay calm if the face of these surroundings. When improving your life there will be times that outside forces will try to hammer away at you to destroy your self esteem. Don’t let them destroy you, or get the best of you. Here are some tips to help you stay focus on the big picture, YOU. Consider this a guide to self improvement.
#1 : Negative Work Environment
Be aware that in the work environment there are people who live by the “dog-eat-dog” mentality. It’s just the way it is. Your contributions will not be appreciated even if you miss lunch and dinner or stay up late. Most of the time you get to work too much without getting help from people concerned. Stay away from this, it will ruin your self-esteem. Yes, it’s competitive, be healthy enough to compete, but in a healthy competition that is.
#2: Other People’s Behavior
Bcakstabbers, gossipmongers, whiners, naggers and complainers and so many more of these types of people will ooze bad vibes towards your self esteem, avoid them as much as possible.
#3: Changing Environment
Changes make life difficult for awhile, at times cause you stress, but it will help you find ways to improve your life. Changes are forever happening, so be flexible.
#4: Past Experience
Our past experiences make us who we are today. How we handle those experiences will direct the future of our lives. Treat each failure and mistake as a lesson.
#5: Negative World View
If you watch the news on a regular basis, you most liekly noticed that it’s 99.99% negative. You need to limit how much negativity enters your life. Reducing the amount of negative karma that enters you lefe will increase the positive side.
#6: Determination Theory
The way you are and your behavioral traits is said to be a mixed end product of your inherited traits (genetics), your upbringing (psychic), and your environmental surroundings such as your spouse, the company, the economy or your circle of friends. Just because your father might have been a failure doesn’t mean that your destined to follow. Being positive is a choice, if you want to be positive, you have to make that choice.
You have your own identity. If your father is a failure, it doesn’t mean you have to be a failure too. Learn from other people’s experience, so you’ll never have to encounter the same mistakes. Building self esteem and drawing lines for self improvement is a choice, not a rule or a talent.
You’ve heard the saying, “misery loves company”, well it true. No one wants to be miserable by themselves. Throughout live you will find that people will try to drag you down while you’re trying to lift your self-esteem and improving your life.
So how do you start putting up the building blocks of self esteem? Be positive. Be contented and happy. Be appreciative. Never miss an opportunity to compliment. A positive way of living will help you build self esteem, your starter guide to self improvement.