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Self Improvement Checklist - 7 Growth-Inspiring Ideas and Tactics

Do you want to improve yourself? Achieve more, do more, be more?

Well have a look at this checklist of 7 items to make yourself better and more able to succeed

15 HABITS ALL SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE HAVE

How many of these habits do you  have? Try and gain one new positive habit each week and see how you feel.

Successful People Unsuccessful People 1 Show Gratitude Have a sense of Entitlement Pay Compliments Criticize others without Justification 2 Know How To Forgive Hold Grudges 3 Live For The Moment Live In The Past 4 Take Responsibility For Mistakes Blame Other Around Them 5 Share Information Keep Secrets 6 Radiate Positive Feelings Express Negative Feelings 7 Talk About Ideas Gossip About Others 8 Celebrate Victories with Others Take All the Credit For Themselves 9 Are Always Ready For Change Are Scared Of Change 10 Hope Everyone Succeeds Secretly Hope Others Fail 11 Consider Other Points Of View Only Thinik About Their Own 12 Set Goals For Themselves Never Set Goals 13 Know What They Want Don't Know What They Want 14 Are Always Learning Think They Know Everything 15 Read Books Watch Tv

How Bad Do You Want It? (Success) HD

How bad do you want it? Watch this for some motivation!



The guru said I'l  meet you at the  beach. The young man got there at 4am.
The guru asked  how bad do you want success?
The guru asked the young man to walk out into the water. Then a bit further, then a fit further.
How bad do you  want to be successful asked the guru. Go futher
Then the guru held the man down,  under the water. Just before he was about to pass out.The guru lifted him up.
 I have a question for you, how bad do you want to be successful. When you want to be as successful as you want to breathe then you'll be successful.
When you have asthma you have shortness of breath you just want to breath that is all you care about. When you get to the point when all you want to do is be successful as bad as you want to breathe then you will will get it.

7 techniques to feel better and be successful - Tony Robbins

We all go through ups and downs and sometimes you just keep telling yourself to feel confident but your brain and body don't believe you. That's because you are communicating in the wrong way. Here are 7 techniques to improve how you feel and get success that I've found from Tony Robbins.

 The techniques are:

1 Model someone else for a few days
2 Priming
3 Absolute certainty
4 Change your focus 

5 Change your focus - use questions 
6 Immediate feeling change - think
7 Immediate feeling change - action

1.Model someone else for a few days

We all create an identify for ourselves. You can tell someone's identity by the gestures they have, the way they move. It's all to do with your belief system.

One thing that we all try and do is being consistent. So we talk in our heads to be more confident but it doesn't work. So what can you do?

The easiest thing to do is pretend to be someone else for a few days. Eg who is the most confident person you know (or if you can't think of someone think of someone from TV or film). Then just act like them for a week. Move like them, talk like them, have a posture like them. Think like them, behave like them. It might be difficult at first but if you get a few successes then it will build momentum and you will find it easier and easier.

2.Priming

Tony Robbins has a morning priming routing, which creates a rapid change in his physiology. Why don't you try something similar?  His program goes something like this:

1. Cold water plunge ( but you could just have a quick cold shower) 
2. Breath walking: Simply walk for a few minutes using a breathing cycle of 4 short inhales through the nose, then 4 short exhales through the mouth 
3. For 3 minutes feel grateful. Fill your soul with gratitude because when you are grateful it is impossible to be angry or fearful at the same time. 
4. For the next 3 minutes have a total focus on the feeling of the universe coming in and healing everything in your body, mind, emotions, relationships, finances and solving anything that needs to be solved. 
5. For the last 3 minutes, focus on three things that you are going to make happen. See it as though its already been done. Feel the emotions. 

3.Absolute certainty

Many people try something without conviction and then fail and then they say, see I told you it doesn't work. But you've got to be certain. But how can you be certain in a world of uncertainty? The trick is to think of the results in your head as if its already happened successfully.

4.Change your focus 

Seek and you shall find. Whatever you focus on you find. It is like when you buy a new car and then you see the same make of car everywhere but before you didn't. Your brain filters out and if you focus on the  negative then you will find the negative and it will take you into a negative direction. Focus on positive things, how you can improve, what great things you can do, how you can help yourself and your friends.

5 Change your focus - use questions 

Your focus is controlled by the questions you ask continually. If you ask questions like why does it happen to me, why I can't I lose weight you will find negative answers. Instead ask questions like what can I learn from this to be better next time or how can I lose weight and have fun.

6.Immediate feeling change - think

When you are trying to do something but in the wrong mood it doesn't work so how can you change? Try the following

1. Shake your body out. 
2. Think what are you proud of or what could you be proud of in your life today? Maybe you overcame a problem or did something good? Now when you feel proud, how do you breathe, how do you stand, how do you move, how do you think, how do you feel? 
3. Think of an area you are grateful for. Really get into the feeling. How do you feel? 
4. Think of something you are excited about. How do you feel? How do you speak? 

If you really get into this feelings your state should have changed.

7.Immediate feeling change - action

Emotion is created by motion. It is hard to talk your way to feeling better but action helps change how you feel. So take action. Shake your body, stand taller and start doing. Immediate massive actions is the cure all for everything. Do it and if the initial action doesn't work, change it and redo

TRANSFORM TO GREATNESS BY MASTERING YOUR HABITS

You become what you repeatedly do. Excellence there is not a skill but a habit ......Aristotle.

Your habits dictate the direction of your life. If you change your habits you life changes.

Many people spend vast resources of energy time and money and fail when if they had made small changes to their habits, they could have succeeded with far less effort and stress involved. Here is a good article by Kyle Colley talking about  mastering your habits to master change.

The Psychology of Habits: How to Become a Master of Change

Humans are creatures of habit. Think for a moment of your daily routine. If you are like 98% of human beings, your morning habitsremain relatively unchanged, without any true variations from year to year. The other 2% are the very forward-minded people that change their habits constantly to maximize their success in life.

There are many reasons why humans might stick to their bad habits for so long; comfort, fear of failure, and the strength of a habit over time. Research shows that the longer the habit has been in effect, the harder it is to change. I’d like to argue, however, that humans have the ability to adapt to any and all kinds of change simply by replacing old thought habits with new and better ones. I believe that far from being incapable of change, we can all be masters of change, because we ultimately control our own habits.


Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

– Deepak Chopra

Before we can change a habit, we must first know what habits are and how they are formed. By definition, a habit is “a behavior pattern acquired by frequent repetition or physiologic exposure that shows itself in regularity or increased facility of performance” (Merriam-Webster).

Anything that you think and do over and over again becomes a habit. According to research done at University College London, it takes on average 66 days for a new habit to form. On paper this seems quite feasible, yet it is easier said than done because of our human desire to remain in our comfort zones.

Take control of your mind

Due to human bias, it is extremely challenging to make new habits stick. The battle has to be won in the mind before it can be manifested in reality. Being aware of this human cognitive bias is crucial for creating the willpower necessary to change any habit you want; humans are not bound to anything, yet because of mental habits and perceptions, it often feels like we are.

The other conflict that gets in the way of creating new and better habits is the inability to consciously notice our own habits. Most people’s core beliefs and ideas about the self were developed at a young age, before they even developed the ability to consciously choose what they wanted to believe or how to interpret situations.

This is where memory plays an interesting role. Our memory is often distorted based on our current mindset, meaning that an event that had no significance when it occurred might gain a purpose within a new context or mindset.

The power of auto-suggestion
Thought habits that developed in adolescence, unless replaced with a better habit, probably still have an unconscious impact. One can begin to reprogram this thought pattern, however, by simply auto-suggesting a thought of desire and then training it like a habit, consciously sending positive thoughts to the subconscious mind.

An auto-suggestion is a conscious thought sent to the unconscious mind. Because thoughts are impulses and have a frequency of vibration, doing this over and over again can create a new thought habit; the same way a habit is formed on a surface level, it can be formed on a chemical level as well. Knowing this is fundamental in fighting through the uncomfortable part of change.

Use substitution to see through the resistance

Additionally, in order to adapt to change quickly it is immensely important to know that old habits do not just disappear, but are instead replaced by better ones. Habits cannot be easily replaced; the body and mind naturally know this and will at first resist.

It is believed that a lot of our bad habits as humans are caused by stress and boredom, and that these two elements directly affect the body and mind’s resistance to new habits. This natural resistance has perhaps led the vast majorty of people to assume that change simply doesn’t last, which in turn leads them to resist it at all costs.

Just don’t give up

Given these points, it is easy to see the challenges of replacing old habits, and the reluctance of people to embrace change. Change is a matter of patience, willpower and consistency practiced consciously for roughly 66 days, long enough for a habit itself to take over involuntarily.

This is important for us to understand, because the only thing standing between you and the person you are inspired to be are the habits you need to change.

Kyle Colley: https://www.goalcast.com/2017/07/28/psychology-of-habits-how-to-become-master-of-change/

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