The main key to a good result or self-improvement plan. Finding your purpose
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Many people would like to develop and work on themselves. But in most cases, when you have already decided to develop, the question arises: “Where to start?” In this case, best solution make a plan for self-improvement.
What is a self-improvement plan and why is it needed?
For most "beginners" on the path of self-improvement, the lack of a guideline is a huge obstacle. Their goal - "to start developing" is so blurry and foggy that they become like a ship in the ocean that has lost its course and has no map, no compass, and nothing at all that could point it in the right direction.
In order not to get into such a situation and become “experienced sailors”, you need to draw up a clear route for yourself from where you are now to where you want to be. This route is a plan of self-development. In short and clear, this plan describes all the actions necessary to achieve your goals within a certain time.
Examples of such actions are:
- Reading certain literature
- Seminar attendance
- Conferences, abstinence from bad habits, etc.
But first things first.
The first steps to writing a self-improvement diary
In order for us to understand in which areas we need to achieve better results, it is important to be aware of our desires. There are several initial steps that will help us with this.
1. Awareness of desires
This is the first step to creating a personal growth plan. Think and decide for yourself which goals will bring you the most happiness, satisfaction and benefit. Also keep in mind that the goal should be clear and measurable.
Striving for "knowledge of a foreign language" will get you nowhere. Choose the specific language, the specific level of proficiency you need.
For example, in English there are six levels of language acquisition. Let's assume that the level of "Advanced" (professional possession) will be enough for you to communicate comfortably and naturally with foreigners. In this case, you write the installation like this: “Own English language at the Advanced level.
It is also worth noting that the time period for which you are making a plan plays a role here. Wouldn't you be surprised if you can't thoroughly learn a new language from scratch in one week? Therefore, objectively evaluate your strengths.
2. Divide goals into several subgoals
Set specific sub-goals that will give you a clearer idea of what you are aiming for. For example, language proficiency includes the skills of recognizing speech by ear, reading, reproducing their texts in oral or written form, as well as knowledge of grammar and vocabulary.
In learning a foreign language, such subtasks can be:
- vocabulary for 5000 words
- knowledge of all grammar rules
- conscious reading speed
Such indicators give an objective picture of where you are now and how much more work you have to do. remember, that the more numbers in your "tasks", the more real they seem to you.
Another advantage of “dividing” one goal into several is that it is always much easier for us to take on something less complex and smaller in volume. Agree, “Learn English to the Advanced level” is morally more difficult than “Learn 5,000 words” or “Achieve a reading speed of 200 words per minute.”
3. Actions focused on results
Once you have defined your goals and made a list of smaller tasks to achieve them, you can start creating a list of specific actions. Here it is important correctly distribute the volume of daily / weekly work.
If you want to lose 5 kg in a month, then you need to lose at least 1.25 kg in weight per week.
For convenience, you can make a table of “weeks”, where you will enter daily “steps” towards your landmark. For example, in order to read 50 books in a year, you need to read about 1 book per week. On average, a book includes about 300 pages, which is about 40 pages per day.
Thus, you get the visual indicator that you should be guided by throughout the year. Simply put, 40 pages/day = 50 books/year. By the way, the most optimal period for “hitting the target” is 1-3 months.
Of course, your goals can be for a year or for five years. In this case, monthly achievements should bring you closer to the fulfillment of higher and more significant plans. Therefore, make sure that they do not contradict each other.
4. Self-discipline and introspection
In order to stick to the plan, we certainly need discipline. The first weeks are especially difficult, when useful things have not yet become a habit. It is a well-known fact that it takes a person 3 weeks or more to form a habit. 21 day. Already three weeks after the start, you will experience much more discomfort from the fact that you did not do what you planned. Once the daily task becomes easy enough, you can make it a little more difficult. For example, learn not 14 words a day, but 16. Run not 15 minutes in the morning, but 18.
Life is very unpredictable and often we have to settle for one at the expense of the other. It is possible that due to some circumstances you will not be able to meet your daily/weekly “norm”. This is absolutely normal.
However, the problem with beginners is that they give up after they have lost their schedule (even if not very significantly). It's never too late to redeem yourself and get back to work. And in order to reduce the “force majeure” that has such a detrimental effect on the mood of people, we need introspection. It assumes that every day we summarize some of the work done. We look at our plan and give ourselves an assessment: have all the tasks of self-improvement been completed. If not, what caused the non-compliance? How can we avoid this in the future, etc.
Be sincere with yourself and, if you are simply too lazy - admit it to yourself. Recognition of the problem, as you know, is already half of its solution. Everyone was talking about it successful people, you should also remember this: "Never give up!"
Pitfalls on the path of self-improvement
It often seems to beginners that the most interesting thing is setting a plan and tasks for self-improvement, but their daily implementation very soon turns into an annoying routine that does not bring joy at all. To avoid this scenario and make each stage of your growth pleasant and comfortable, you can try the following.
First of all, you need to understand that The human psyche is very changeable, it always adapts to what is happening around. And this means that her needs are changing. What does this mean in practice?
And the fact that after some time following your plan, you can wake up one morning with a clear understanding that the goals that you set yourself a couple of weeks ago are no longer yours. Maybe they were never yours. At such moments, it is important to listen to yourself and honestly answer the question - do I really want to do this or do I do it because others expect me to or for some other reason.
The second important rule is you can always cancel your plans if you don't like them. Suppose a couple of weeks later, after you made your self-improvement plan, you realized that you were not interested in these goals, but at the same time you could not bring yourself to give them up. The process no longer brings pleasure, you force yourself to do what was planned, and all this does not bring results.
In this case, it is always important to honestly admit to yourself that you no longer want to do this, for whatever reasons.
love the process
Another equally important point when drawing up a self-improvement plan is appreciate the results. It is very important, especially at the initial stage of any new business, to record and appreciate even the smallest results. Remember how a child is praised for all sorts of little things.
Pay attention to your even small achievements. Praise yourself, encourage. Having formed a positive reinforcement, you will learn to enjoy the first small steps, stop devaluing yourself, begin to enjoy the process itself, without waiting for that big goal, which you once set for yourself. After all, as Eastern wisdom says: "The result is side effect from practice."
conclusions
So let's sum it up:
- Decide what you need. Set clear, specific, time-bound goals.
- Divide your goals into several "slices". This is how you will track your progress.
- Make a list of tasks for each day (week, month) that will bring you closer to achieving your goals.
- Get into the habit of doing the right things as soon as possible, and review your progress every day.
- Listen to yourself throughout the process and honestly answer the question - do I really want this?
- Do not be afraid to abandon previously set goals and change them. As you change, so do your goals.
- Praise yourself for even the smallest accomplishments. Do not expect great results right away, enjoy the process itself.
The self-improvement plan, as the most important condition for self-development, will fully provide you with everything you need to achieve what you want. It provides the exact coordinates of what you are striving for. And most importantly - the self-improvement plan gives you the opportunity to believe in the attainability of goals!
From now on, you can rightfully consider yourself a captain who knows exactly where and when his ship will arrive! In the process, you can always adjust your goals and ways to achieve them. Perhaps, after some time, your list of goals will be replenished with new ones, and the tasks for achieving them will become even more diverse and interesting.
Everything is in your hands. Develop with pleasure, achieve your goals and do not forget about the most important nuance! There is no limit to perfection, which means that self-development is an endless process!
Hello friends, Pavel Yamb is in touch. Today's topic of conversation will be about what personal self-improvement is: a program, ways and means of development of each of us.
Why is self-development so important?
Yes, because any marking time leads to stagnation, and then leads to complete degradation and decline.
Therefore, if you want to move towards a better life, then you need to develop, improve your skills and improve.
A person who neglects the laws of evolution is doomed to moral death.
How to motivate yourself to strive to improve your own self?
Calm down, friends. There is always a goal for self-improvement of the individual.
It could be:
- material and professional interest;
- belief;
- ideas;
- love
Let's take a closer look:
- Well, with a material interest, I hope everything is clear. We all want to live curly, and this cannot be forbidden to us.
- FROM professional growth also, probably, everything is clear.
- Beliefs are impulses of the soul, noble motives and other lyrical deviations from rough reality.
- Ideas. For the sake of high ideas, people are capable of much. If a person has driven something into his head, then it can be difficult to convince him.
- Love is the feeling that makes us brush our teeth, use a handkerchief, wash our face and run grueling cross-country runs to lose weight. This motive is perhaps the strongest.
Criteria for motivation
Managing your time is one of the most important skills to achieve success and set goals. You have no idea how proper time management improves productivity! Live to the max.
In order to develop properly, your character must meet certain conditions.
- You should be prone to introspection, assessment of your own qualities, self-criticism.
- We need to compare ourselves with our comrades, naturally the best of us.
- Temper character like steel and strengthen willpower shattered by bad habits.
- Strive to have a pre-planned personal improvement program and milestones for future growth.
Alas, some of us do not strive for high ideals; they are quite satisfied with the passive state in which they are. Many people think: why will I work, make extra gestures, if I feel good anyway? I don’t seem to swell from hunger, I have enough for beer, why the hell should I work on myself?
That is, the problem of self-improvement of the personality does not exist for such comrades.
These thoughts have ruined the life of more than one person. In such a comfortable state, you can soar in the clouds for a long and tedious time, forgetting about your career forever.
I believe that none of you would want such a fate.
If you have a tendency to personal growth, and high earnings are not an empty phrase for you, then you will not sit idly by, but will create all the conditions for self-improvement of the individual.
So. Let's define the terms that we will use to define the categories of personal growth:
Self-development
Striving for improvement positive qualities. This type of behavior is typical for people who aim to further improve their performance.
self-affirmation
Behavioral factor, which is due to the desire to increase self-esteem. An attempt to achieve elevated social status and significance in the assessments of others.
self-knowledge
Explore your strengths and weaknesses. Exploring your own uniqueness in comparison to other people. An attempt to analyze life, the study of one's own biography.
Finding your purpose
Attempts to comprehend life and realize the place that you occupy on this earth. This is a very difficult question, since many people do not find an answer for what they were born for until the end of their lives.
You can search for your own destiny throughout your conscious life. Long and ineffectual.
Sometimes, only at the end of earthly existence, a person sometimes understands: why he was created and why life was lived.
- M. Norbekov - "Experience of a fool"
- N. Hill - "Think and Grow Rich"
- D. Carnegie - "How to Win Friends"
- R. Kiyosaki - "Rich Dad Poor Dad"
- D. Allan - "How a person thinks"
- L. Tzu - "The Art of War"
- D. Chopra "Seven Spiritual Covenants", "The Path of Love"
- R. Bach "The Seagull Jonathan Livingston"
- S. Johnson "Where is my cheese or know your dream"
- V. Sinelnikov "Love your illness", "The power of intention"
- B. Tracy "Achieving the maximum"
- P. Spann "In seven years from a beggar to a multimillionaire"
- R. Sharma "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari"
- P. Coelho "The Alchemist"
That's all, friends. You have learned in this post what are the main ways of self-improvement of the individual, and you can start practicing. And I say goodbye to you until the next article.
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Today I want to talk about such rich yak self-perfection. Age with a skin day, this day, the fate of a person’s life, for some reason, get into it and get it right. For be-like a self-respecting people self-perfection- natural process. Why is it concluded and why is it needed?
Pochnemo s moral i rozumovogo samoskonalennya. Wait a minute, like forty people, but you’ll think and die like that, nibi їy fifteen, tse, softly seemingly, marvelous. And you can talk about those who, at the singing stage, the person zipped at the rosette. It’s easy to respect such a person, it’s not impossible.
Otzhe, self-perfection is a permanent, uninterrupted development of specialness. I vidbuvayu, vin yak with a natural gentry - the people in the way, snakes il rosumnishah, the yields, the dosvіd s Zitutsi, yaki with her, so for the pre -human self -people - Vajayychi, the signs of the wisdom of the people. self-development and recognition of human qualities and habits, aesthetic and religious views.
Rozumovo and spiritual specialty is exalted, for the whole hour you’ve been working to the full moral wickedness and taking away knowledge, you will always be one step ahead of people who are inert and less intelligent and ambitious, as in everyday life, so in the career plan. Even if a person has high moral principles, which she doesn’t do, she has a fountain of ideas on her robots, and everyone will always work with her like a fine and hourly, that around the same time, she constantly raises her professional level, such a person should be valued and respected.
Moral vigor and reason have always been respected and respected more honorably. At that hour, like people, like “to stand on the mission” at your own development of the doom of the pasture of the back.
If there is physical perfection, then yoga should be understood in its own way. For people, ring out, lifted figure, healthy way of life, good vibes, pumped up m'yazi. For a woman, the most important thing is a string waist, a garniy look and a healthy meal. In a word, tse robot over the perfect body and the splendid look of the path of physical training and spirit. Mustaches, to the point of thoroughness, will still require work on themselves - training of willpower, physical rights, and speeches that are natural for a person.
The specialty of all life is universally condemned to self-perfection - both moral, spiritual and aesthetic, so physical, that professional, and in no way pripriya over yourself.
True, the incentives for self-development in a skin person can be different. Anyone can show their own idea of reconsideration, respecting self-perfection of the invisible mind of a person by a process for whom it is possible to bring it to someone. These are people who are stimulating life to the development of the bazhannya to inspire a successful career or a wealth, and it is possible that a person is simply ambitious on her own, who is constantly self-perfected to keep her in good shape and work happily.
Have a temperament, a development of specialness, a little to the advancement of the level of intelligence, reduce that polishing of moral ills, spirituality will help people to reach success in life, honor of the mindful, peaks in the career, live in abundance.
Independently, if you learn how to play checks, if you can solve sudoku, or if you can, learn a new language - you will be self-sufficient in any way. And so, anyway, in life you may need everything that is worth it. To that, the skin of us, varto pragnate to a greater and work on ourselves, without which it is impossible to be successful.