WHAT IS SELF-IMPROVEMENT? WHY IS IT IMPORTANT? 15 self-improvement habits for making your life better and improving yourself.
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| WHAT IS SELF-IMPROVEMENT? WHY IS IT IMPORTANT? 15 self-improvement habits for making your life better and improving yourself. |
Self-improvement is simply all about working on yourself to improve yourself as a person and which eventually leads to overall improvement of your life. It may include identifying certain areas of your life which are indicating you to improve yourself to improve your life conditions.
For example, it may be related to your health that is you don't feel healthy from the past few months and when you evaluate the reason why you're feeling so, you get to know that some not so healthy habits like consuming too much caffeine or not being active are the reasons causing negative impact on your health.
It can be anything which may make you feel to change yourself to be an improved self. We all want to change or improve something about ourselves and actually that is good because to grow as a person, it is important to improve yourself.
Your desire can be to communicate better; improve yourself to look more groomed and feel confident about yourself or you may want to become a happier person or active in your day-to-day life. Whatever you want to improve about yourself, you must need to keep few points in your mind for your self-improvement and those points are as follows:-
1. Identify what change you want in yourself and in your life - You must know first what change you want to make in yourself in order to start the process of improving yourself, be clear about what your desire is, that is what exact goal you want to achieve.
(To learn more about this read article - How to know what CHANGE you want in your life? How to decide what to do to make the change happen? How to have clarity of thoughts? How to set goals?)
2. Imagine yourself as your improved self - Imagining your improved self will motivate you and let you stay committed to your goal for self-improvement.
What
I do to better and clearly imagine my goal is that I try to consume content
about it offline and online by reading about it and also by watching videos of
it. Putting pictures which helps you visualize your desire on a vision board or diary also
helps.
3. Focus on one thing you want to improve in yourself at a
time and go to next when you achieve your first priority.
For example, you may want to quit the habit of overthinking, so first focus on how you can prevent yourself from overthinking. You may start writing a journal to keep thoughts bothering you out of your mind or/and practice mindfulness to be in the moment etc.
When you will notice that now you don't
overthink anymore and you have achieved your goal of preventing yourself from
thinking too much unnecessarily then only you should decide what your next goal is; what else about yourself you want to improve and then work on it. Focusing on more than one goal at a time won't let you achieve any of your goals for self-improvement.
4. Start over again - During the process of self-improvement, if you fail for any reason then don't punish yourself for it. Instead just be aware, accepting and patient. You may give yourself a short break and again start to be on track of improving yourself.
For example, if you are trying to reduce weight by following a proper diet and exercise regime. For some reason you are not able to workout for a few days then don't feel guilty or bad about yourself because it is absolutely normal. Just give yourself a day or two to feel your emotions and from the next day commit to yourself to follow your goal and start exercising again on daily basis.
15 self-improvement habits for making your life better
and improving yourself:-
1. Use positive affirmations and visualization. Positive
self-talk habit is very important to let your thoughts stay positive as
negative thoughts are of no use in the process of self-improvement.
2. Be true to yourself about yourself always because if
you are not true to yourself then you will never be able to accept your flaws
and identify what change you want and improve yourself.
3. Stay committed and loyal towards yourself like a best friend does.
4. Be an open minded person as it will help you to learn and
grow as a person and also in all areas of your life.
5. Simplify your life and also stay organized as it helps
with focusing on your goals.
6. Do journaling on a daily basis. Read article to learn about journaling your thoughts -
7. Reward yourself for every small and big achievement in
the process of self-improvement.
8. Keep learning and keep growing. Learn from books; articles available online and offline and also from people's experiences. To know more read - Be selfish to learn to become successful.
9. Let go of what doesn't serve you or your purpose
including people.
10. Pray, meditate, talk to God on a daily basis and
whenever you want to.
11. Learn and adapt discipline. It is best to control your
thoughts and actions and be on track of achieving your improved self.
12. Stay active. Just decide and do, put your positive
thoughts and ideas into action.
13. Make self-care your the most important priority because when you
will care about yourself starting from your thoughts about self to the
practices of self-care then only you will feel concerned about yourself to
become better and realize what you would like to improve in you and in your
life too.
14. Believe in yourself. Only if you believe in yourself then you can be whatever you want to be and also be an improved and in fact best version of yourself. Read to know how important is self-belief, why one should believe in himself or herself and how self-belief can help you achieve your goals and making your dream reality?
15. Set your life rules and follow them.
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