Every new day is another opportunity to be a better version of yourself than you were the day before. If you take the opportunity every day to work on yourself, you will always be aiming for the best you. Gratitude and positivity are the two main elements you need to begin your day with.
Wake up every morning with a grateful heart and a positive outlook about the day. The beauty of a new day offers you a clean slate, a new beginning, another opportunity to be a better you than you were yesterday. It allows you to look towards the future with great anticipation as you recognize that with each passing day you have the power to improve yourself.
When you are looking to improve yourself, place your focus on the areas that need improvement such as impatience, anger, stress, unhappiness, frustration, lack of focus, procrastination, jealousy, or greed. Once you find the areas of yourself that need improvement, place your focus there. Write these areas down on a piece of paper so that it is easy to focus on one at a time. Think of ways that you can improve the areas that need it and write out a game plan in step by step instructions to achieve your goal.
Begin the improvement process at the beginning of every week. On Sundays, take the time to do a self-assessment and create your self-improvement list. On Mondays, choose one area to begin to improve. Each day of the week choose one area to improve that day. You may have to work on an area for multiple days. That decision is up to you and what your Intuition tells you to do. Follow your Intuition and stay focused for as long as you intuitively feel you should.
When you are doing your self-assessment, make sure that you are open, honest and raw. Don’t ignore the areas that you don’t want to look at. It is easy to live in denial. Actually, it’s a lot easier to live in denial than it is to shine the light on the parts of yourself that are uncomfortable to face, but those areas need the most improvement. The longer you deny this, the longer you keep yourself from improvement. You can be a better version of yourself than you were yesterday and you will be if you are strong, open-eyed, honest with yourself and follow these guidelines.
After you have your assessment created and area of improvement decided upon, be mindful during the day of the area that you are working on and practice improving the area. For instance, if patience is one of the areas that you want to improve, then you will simply be mindful during the day of every time impatience creeps in. When you find yourself getting frustrated and fidgety, take a moment to focus on your breath. Remove your focus from the impatience and place it on your breath. Take a long, deep breath in, hold it, then slowly release. Repeat this action a few times. Being mindful and bringing your attention to your breath will help you to overcome the impatience.
With daily practice, it will become automatic until it gets to the point of non-existence. Now, this isn’t something that is going to happen overnight and it will really take dedication and practice, but it is not impossible! As you begin to realize the improvement of the area you are working on, it will give you reassurance and satisfaction that will keep you engaged and willing to continue.
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