How to Start Working on Self Improvement

 

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Self improvement is the practice of working on your self in order to improve your knowledge, status, character and growth. Basically it is the activity that helps you to achieve your potential goals in life. 
Self improvement is an ongoing process, whenever we think we are good enough, we can even more better than good.

Self Improvement Tips

After a deep research about self improvement, I've  compiled some of my best tips about how improve yourself. If you want to work on your self improvement, following are the best tips that you can read and implement.

1.Try to Work on your Capabilities:

This is very important to understand that your capabilities helps you to achieve success. If you are not familiar with your good capabilities and bad capabilities, you can not work on self improvement. Once you know your strong and weak points, it will be easy for you to work on weak points to make them better.

2.Self Awareness:

If you want something in life you should have a clear picture of where you stand you can easily make a decision of what are your goals and how to accomplish them with a clear strategy. So, you need to be aware of yourself before achieve something.

3.Don't Degrade Yourself:

Its very important to respect your own self for self improvement. When you think you are not good enough to do anything in life, this will let you in a situation of low self esteem and in the end you will not be able to work on self improvement. If you spend a lot of time questioning yourself and making yourself down, you're cutting the way of meeting your goals in life. Making yourself a priority will help you to think and act positive.

4.Pick up a New Productive Hobby:

Does it sounds good to introduce yourself with some interesting hobbies? If yes then try to implement different hobbies in your daily routine. It will helps you to escape yourself from hectic work routine. Hobbies you can implement can be playing a tennis badminton or spending time in baking, gardening and so on. By adding productive hobbies you will be able to know that on which activities you are good at and enjoying doing them.

5.Celebrate Little Successes:

Appreciate yourself on achieving every little goals. This will give you the courage to set and achieve more and more goals in life. You can celebrate your success with your loved ones, friends or by giving yourself an expensive gift :P. So celebrate your every little win!

6.Learn New Skills:

Learning new skills can help you to improve yourself in a best way. Why I became blog writer? because I learned the skill of writing. A speaker becomes a speaker when he work on his communication skills. A person becomes good in video games because he played them many times. So learn new skills that matches your interest. When you master a skills you will understand that you can learn and master more skills. This will increase your growth mindset.

7.Overcome your Fears:

Fears are the hard obstacles in the success journey. They don't let you do anything in life and pushing you back and back. Fears let you to not focus on your those points that needs your attention. Overcoming and making your fears a strength is the art that everyone can learn if they try. So focus on your fears, write them on paper and work on them day by day.

8.Learn a New Language:

Learning a new language will help you to work on yourself. You will explore different cultures and change your way of looking at the world. Plus if you speak different languages it will open up the doors of your career as well.

9.Leave your Comfort Zone:

We plan many things but ended up doing nothing. For self improvement you should have to step out of your comfort zone. Life is full of opportunities to step put of your comfort zone. To step out of your comfort zone, make changes to your daily routine and do something that you've never did before. Learn something new explore more and more opportunities. Spend your time doing stuff that helps you to grow.

10.Make an Exercise Routine:

When your health is good everything is good. There is a reason why successful people exercise daily because exercise boost our immune system and help us to stay focused in our goals. Try to exercise each day to prevent your boredom and to control your emotions.

Read Self Improvement Books

Books play an important role in our growth because they have the ability to change our thinking parameters. Reading books that are effective for your self improvement will help you to gain knowledge and achieve your goals faster.

Here are some of the best recommended books that can help in self improvement

• Think and grow rich by Napoleon Hills
• The power of positive thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• Manual for living by Marcus Aurelius 
• The obstacle is the way by Ryan Holiday
  
  
  

Self Improvement Quotes

Whenever we plan to start something, we always look for some inspiration to kick off in a positive way. Here quotes play an important role because those two or three lines greatly motivate us.

Here are some inspirational quotes for self improvement.

                           "It's never two late to be, who you might have been"
                                                               George Eliot


                 "Life is growth. If we stop growing technically or spiritually, we are as good as dead."
                                                                    Morihei Ueshiba


                    "Become addicted to constant and never ending self improvement."
                                                           Anthony J. Dangelo


                      "The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind."
                                                               Dr. Wayne W. Dyer


   "There is only one corner of the universe, you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
                                                                   Aldos Huxley


                  "The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity."
                                                                 Ayan Rand

                     "People Seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy."
                                                               Oliver Goldsmith

                     "No amount of self improvement can make up for any lack of self acceptance."
                                                              Robert Holden

                           "The goal is not to be better than other man, but your previous self."
                                                           The Dalai Lama

 "No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from you can always change, become a better version of yourself."
                                                   Madonna

Conclusion

You are responsible for your personal growth as you learn how to improve yourself. Make a decision to work on yourself everyday. The results are not immediate but eventually you will see a big change of growth  in yourself after a certain period of time. 
                                                                         

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