Achieving regular and constant self improvement is a very time-consuming thing to do, but just by the name, you can already see how useful it is. It is helpful in an extremely long variety of topics, some of them could be:
- Learning new skills
- Dealing with anger or depression
- Overcoming fears
- Stop overthinking
- Help archive a more healthy lifestyle
- Earn more money
- Etc.
There is also a variety of ways in which you can work towards archiving self improvement.
Starting a disciplinary activity like martial arts, begin to meditate, attend meetings, or whatever fits you personally, we will come back to that by the end of this article.
People are incredibly diverse and can perform a lot of tasks.
If I told you that you could draw just like Picasso did probably, you wouldn’t believe me. And you are right. But Picasso is a surname. You can be the Smith, the Lopez, the who-ever you want if you start doing something and dedicate entirely to it. You need to establish your goals properly and know your most vital attributes. We’re going to talk about this in this small guide on how to Know Yourself and Seek Self Improvement.
Know Yourself and Seek Self Improvement
Whether you want to become a leader, a CEO, a good parent, a good employee, or just the right person is vital that you must be aware of your strengths and weaknesses as a person.
If you can’t rely on yourself the others will have it very difficult to do so as well, so understanding what everyone else sees in you and talking honestly about any issue is the beginning of your journey.
After realizing that you want to follow this path and decided to start seeking improvements in yourself you will be struck by the first hard step of swallowing the pill. You will not see the changes in just a day, or a week or even a month. You need to be systematic; take small steps and the lessons that come with each and every one of them.
Years will pass until you can see drastic differences, but if you do not start right now you will be kind of ashamed when you get there.
And you require a lot of honesty, humility and to be open to criticism. This is hard because always hearing a critic about oneself is difficult, but it will be a lot more difficult to do the proper analysis yourself as well. This process only involves you. So you will need to remind yourself to constantly stay in place and not lose the horizon you set.
And one final point is that this will need to become a lifelong endeavor. If you lose your equilibrium a couple of years into you can bounce back easier than someone who did not focus on their inner problems before, but this does not mean that it will be easy as well. Self-improvement help to give you a better life as long as you properly care about the routine that surrounds it and you are truly focused on your objectives-
How to Seek Self Improvement
The inner meaning of self-improvement is to continually become better than before, to lift you every time a little higher. But you may have a rough start until you took off. Competing against yourself is essential, as you will continuously find new and more challenging things to archive.
If you do not follow this concept, you can start your new life, new job, whatever, and fell face front to another stone in your way and leave you in the same spot as before.
If you manage to focus on this daily it will become evident in a few months how much you accomplished.
You may not be the best at everything, or even just one single thing, but if you are better than past-you you already WON.
And for that, you need to know who past-you was, or… who he, you, currently is.
How to Get to Know Yourself
Well, I am probably going to disappoint you here by saying that for everyone this step varies a lot.
There is no magic answer for all of us, but, most people seem to start getting a better view and idea about themselves now after evaluating their own past actions. That is not a bad start.
But instead of leaving you hanging, I will mention some first steps that you can take right now.
3 Steps to start knowing yourself a little more
Increase Your Self Awareness
For this part, meditation and seclusion with your thoughts is a pretty important step. It would be best if you learned to put the rest of the world on another site for a moment each time and focus on yourself. How are you feeling; hungry, tired, bored, happy? What your body is telling you. How your posture is right now. How you are breathing.
It is easier if you start with feeling the physical part and after that, you close your eyes and focus on the inside:
What have you been doing? What are the things you are working towards? How you plan to do that? What makes you sad? What makes you smile? What are your ambitions?
Think about that for a bit from now, and then, only with that, you are ahead of many people but Remember, the goal is not to compare yourself to them. Right? Let’s continue.
Face Your Fears
There is a simple reason why we avoid certain things. We are afraid of them. But facing your fears is one of the best ways to get to know yourself.
Do you have any food that you hated as a child and when you finally tasted it it wasn’t that or even liked it after all?
We are not saying that you will love spiders or heights, but be smart about it and take steps so that you stop having this constant fear behind your back that only drags you down.
This thing takes time, effort, and maybe even tears in some cases. But you will come out knowing a lot about yourself when you are done.
Focus on Your Strengths
When you already start to know what is really on your mind and how to slightly manage it, you need to start focusing on what you do best; your strengths.
You will become successful faster, besides continuing the path of knowing yourself always a little bit more each day.
Even if you are stuck and do not know what your strengths are, with just a little bit of mind and practical work, you can deduce them, and by doing it, you are also starting to practice them more, win-win.
There is no need for me to tell you how many people have had a little talent and are now living in mansions, thanks to exploiting it correctly. Many of them started from nothing, and even some of those started their lives without having enough to eat regularly. You can surely take control of your life when you decide to.
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