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Improvement Is A Continuous Process

Oct 8

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creatingtheprogram5Daily Quote: “Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent” Maxwell Maltz

Don’t think that you can skip steps when it comes to improvement. There are not many times in your life where you can get away with skipping a few steps. You have to plan your progress step by step and don’t skimp on the in between steps.

It’s impossible to attend a post graduate degree course if you haven’t got a first degree. You cannot speak a language if you have not learnt new words. You can’t run a competitive race if you have not trained. And the list goes on.
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Why To Improve Upon Yourself

Oct 6

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ppl-act-029Daily Quote: “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” Aldous Huxley

Deciding on what to improve on could be an overwhelming thought. What of the many areas of your life do you want to have more success at? Where do you want to feel more confident?

Some people are lucky. They have one overwhelming passion and they end up spending all their efforts in improving their performance in this area. This could be anything from a hobby such as growing orchids to a professional athlete.
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What In Your Life Can You Improve On

Oct 1

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improve-your-lifeDaily Quote: “Our lives improve only when we take chances and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.” Walter Anderson.

What in your life would you like to improve on? What is there in your life that you might not be happy with? You might think that because you are in a happy relationship and your career is going good you need no further improvement.

This is of course true if you want to just relax and drift through life. If you want to increase your pleasures, get more out of your life have a higher standard of living then you might want to check what in your life could do with some improvement.
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View Improvement As A Positive Factor

Sep 28

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Lake-Bottom-Nice-sm-72Daily Quote: “Any ordeal that you can survive as a human being is an improvement in your character, and usually an improvement in your life.” Viggo Mortensen

Many people consider working on self-improvement as a constant work load rather than looking at it as the invigorator of your life. Attitude will make all the difference in your life when it comes to improvement.

Listen to the interviews of athletes who have lost a big game or didn’t achieve what they had set out to do. Very few of them say that they are fed up of not winning and are going to give up. Most of them state emphatically that this was a learning experience and they would go home and rethink their training strategy to improve on their performance.
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Are You Being Powerful When You Are Angry?

Sep 25

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angrycustomerDaily Quote: “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” Buddha

Does anger have power? Are you being powerful when you are angry? The answers to these questions depend on what you mean by power.

Certainly you can intimidate many people with your anger – especially children or others who are physically weaker than you, or people who are terrified of disapproval and rejection. Anger – other than the outrage from the loving adult that leads to taking action against injustice – is a form of control. When you succeed in making others afraid of you, it often it works to get them to do what you want. But it will never work to get them to feel what you want them to feel, and it will never lead to the sharing of love.
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Buy Into A Life Of Never Ending Improvement

Sep 23

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bullseyeDaily Quote: “Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent” Maxwell Maltz

It has often been said that standing still actually means moving backwards. This principle applies to everything in life. It’s our personal lives, our careers, our investments our life in general. If you don’t seek improvement in every area of your life you will get left behind.

This is very evident in the lives of sporting people. Looking at athletics or swimming for instance, the records constantly tumble. In gymnastics and diving the skills levels are permanently pushed higher.
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Commit To Never-Ending Improvement

Sep 22

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Continuous-improvementDaily Quote: “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” Aldous Huxley

Achievers, whether in the financial or sporting fields and in fact in any part of life, have one thing in common and that is a constant commitment to improving. If you want to be more successful you have to constantly ask what can you do better.

It is particularly important in the mind-numbing pace of change that the world is going through. And this frantic change is not going to slow down. In fact it will probably speed up. What your forefathers lived through, the slow development of the motor car, the telephone, the internet will seem slow in years to come.
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What To Do After You Have Made A Mistake

Sep 21

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mistakesDaily Quote: “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” Conrad Hilton

You’ve made a mistake, you’ve admitted to it and you have apologised for your error to anybody you have hurt. And you have tried to make good the damage you might have caused. What is the next step for you to take in your self-development journey?

It of course depends on how big the mistake was. If you mismanaged your finances and ended up losing a prosperous business which means having to close it down you would have larger consequences to deal with.
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Admit To Your Failures

Sep 17

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overcomingadversity3Daily Quote: “Errors are inevitable. The mark of character is not refusing to recognize them, but acknowledging them and taking responsibility.” Andrew Sullivan

Open yourself up to an understanding about failure. The only way to put any failure behind you is to fully admit that you messed up, made a mistake, had a negative outcome and many more ways of stating the same.

You could have overspent on your credit card and are now finding yourself in huge debt. Admit to this by accepting that you overspent. Stop lying to yourself that you needed all those clothes, holidays, luxuries, toys for the kids and more spending examples.
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What To Do With Feedback

Sep 16

Posted by Robin Bal in Personal Development, Self Improvement | No Comments

2066314126_233482b861Daily Quote: “Champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. They have no use for helicopters!”
Judi Adler

The first point to remember about the feedback you are getting is that the person offering it is taking a risk. By telling somebody something about them, especially if it could be considered negative, you stand the risk of being rejected yourself.

Providing feedback is a risky business. Think of the concept of shooting the messenger. There’s some truth to that saying. You could be considered a bad person, or making a fool of yourself, by telling somebody that they are on the wrong path.
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