Improve Your Life Self Development

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By waynet

Self Development: Improve Your Life One Step At A Time

Improve your life with self development

Improving your life is a step that everyone does at some point in their lives, sometimes we reach the end of one path and decide that moving onto the next will improve our situation and the effect of change that will bring a refreshed perspective on our lives, just makes it seem more wonderful to have that goal in mind.

Making mistakes in life is how we learn and most times it's these mistakes that affect the change within us anyway, so avoiding these unlucky mistakes might be a bad idea, unless they are really bad and cause you more stress in your present situation, seeing the good in the bad can help to wash away all the bad or at least most of it

Self improvement can be realised by the end goal and that is success, whether that be financial, a personal goal or something else that ends up making a small part of your self development journey. Here are a collection of self improvement tips, some of them are obvious and common sense, but nevertheless they are useful in some way....

  • Never think that you are a failure, because failure is only one element of life's learning lessons, it's how you overcome failure that counts and achieving a failure doesn't define the whole of your life and make you a total failure, accept yourself so that others can accept you too.
  • Always look for the power within and never think that you aren't good enough, just because you see other people already enjoying success, (celebrities and famous peopla you see on TV usually) doesn't mean that can't be you in a few years down the line.
  • Try and help others who are feeling down too, improving your lives together helps provide a group spirit and then the person who is also feeling down doesn't try and pull you down with them as this can happen.
  • One mistake isn't the end of the world, realise your mistakes and move on, the more you dwell on them the more you might sink into thinking too much or depression because you might get frustrated with not going anywhere.
  • Take one day at a time and do one thing at a time too, gradually build up your self esteem or confidence and set them targets that you are aiming for, after all, Rome wasn't built in a day as they say.
  • Success comes from within, so do everything you can to feel good about yourself, whether that's improve your health in some way or improve your financial status.
  • Set realistic goals that you know you can achieve to start with, don't go aiming for that pot of gold straight away or you will become disappointed when you don't achieve it.
  • Don't forget to spread your new found happiness, confidence and self esteem by letting others know about it, you could start to compliment other people and even just greet other people you wouldn't ordinarily have done before, this makes you feel good, but also the other people that you meet or work with, they'll associate confidence with you and you may have more opportunities open up for you.
  • Accept that others around you may not want to change with you, so accept this fact and concentrate on yourself or those who do want to try and improve their lives in some way, surround yourself with those who want to join you, but don't leave out those who aren't quite ready, because they may want to change or improve later on.

Over night change, success or improvement does not exist even in an ideal world, so to realize what you already have now and to work with what you've got is good enough and because everywhere that you look, there is help and learning for when you want it, so when you are ready for self improvement, take it and grab it with both hands.

Success is just around the corner!


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waynet Hub Author 22 months ago

Cheers Sofs!

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sofs Level 7 Commenter 22 months ago

Good.. Life is all about taking stock,picking up new skills and improving quality of living.. pretty useful

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waynet Hub Author 23 months ago

Cheers Robert!

Self development is very important if you realize a need to change or get out of the rut that anyone may find themselves in.

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robertsloan2 23 months ago

Pretty good overall. What I suspect most people don't realize about celebrities is how brutal that life can become, no matter how many times you read about famous people dying young, having serious drug/alcohol problems, mental illness and stress related illnesses. Anyone who dreams of fame as success needs to look into the reality of living with it, which includes millions of people you don't know who may not agree with you on anything about life judging everything you do, say, wear and think with vicious jealousy in order to tear you down.

So I would add to your article, stop and look around at yourself and your life, figure out what success actually means to you. Knowing the difference between what you actually want and what other people have told you to want is critical to actual success at anything.

Someone who hates spending hours and hours alone sitting down at a keyboard ought not to try to become a famous author. They might do better at something more social! Someone who enjoys shopping, really enjoys shopping, may get a kick out of a job as a buyer for a large company.

Following other people's advice on career can be an enormous source of misery. Something that a parent or friend or spouse thinks is great for you because you have an aptitude or they'd be proud to have a doctor/etc. for a child/spouse/friend etc. may be a hard road to somewhere you'd rather not have gone in the first place.

It helps to know who you are and what you really enjoy, then build your life around what actually makes you happy. If you're happiest going out in the woods all the time and would rather be fishing than do any sort of job, move to a wilderness area, sell bait and become a fishing guide.

People who do the job they love, enjoy even in its nastiest aspects, are happier than people who don't. Occupational mismatching is something I think is even more common than bad marriages. Also, everyone's different. Your nightmare is someone else's dream job.

I go nuts if I have to work under supervision. No supervisor has ever actually been better at organizing my time than I am or at making decisions that get the job done right than I do. The more interference, the more I have to report to other people, the harder it is to accomplish anything. I'm best off self employed where I can decide exactly what to do when and make all my own long term plans too.

But I've met people who'd go nuts in that situation, would have trouble getting up in the morning or deciding what to do first. Ex-housemates have explained to me that if something gets sorted out by management and all they have to do is show up on time and do it, that's less stressful for them. They don't want to think about it on that level. They honestly want their work laid out for them and are happier that way. Who am I to argue?

My whole view of self improvement now is a bit different -- it's a matter of looking at context. Instead of trying to change who I am, it's a lot saner to seek a situation where my being who I am fits well and I don't have to work at it to make it work or become comfortable. The reverse can work sometimes even for years but it's just buried misery, a half-life without hope of better because getting better at the wrong course of action just dug me in deeper and made it harder to walk away.

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