Do you wonder if you’ll ever be able to live up to your calling, where you fit, or what your purpose is? Most of us have felt this way at some point in time. Letting go is hard!
Caterpillars have to surrender themselves to forces much greater than themselves during their transformation. Before a butterfly can spread its wings and fly, it must go through the pain of shedding its old self.
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always be where you’ve always been.” –T.D. Jakes
To achieve self-improvement, you don’t need major life-changing changes; it can be just as simple as improving upon what you already have. Although early life experiences within the family, at school, etc. can shape us as adults, personal development shouldn’t stop at a certain age.
Personal development goals can fall into different categories.
- Mental
- Social
- Physical
- Spiritual
- Emotional
Steps to help you grow and achieve transformation
Visualizing yourself achieving your goal will help you break toxic thought patterns, keep you motivated, and will help you be more natural during the process.
Positivity is key. Focusing your mind and controlling your breathing will help you deal with stressful situations outside your comfort zone if you practice a few minutes a day.
Get up if you fall. Setbacks and errors are inevitable on the road to success. First time round, there are few things you’ll get right.
Compete only against yourself. You will only wear yourself out by toxic competition. Make sure you focus on your goal and how you will achieve it.
Take on small challenges. By overcoming small challenges, you’ll be able to move forward with more determination in the future.
Don’t give up. Do not be lazy or disappointed. Consistently work toward your goal. You will become accustomed to having this attitude if you set your mind on achieving your objectives every day.
It’s important to celebrate successes. Rewarding yourself for small achievements motivates you to keep going.
Use your strengths to your advantage. In order to improve ourselves, we often focus on our weaknesses, the things we don’t do well. However, building on our strengths can also be beneficial—it can help us become more proficient in certain areas.
Count your blessings. A great way to improve yourself is to practice gratitude, or thankfulness. Relationship quality and well-being are linked to gratitude.
Outsmart your smartphone. Messages from our friends, news, games, apps, and more are all available on our phones. They can, however, harm our well-being as well. Therefore, improving your relationship with technology and your phone is a good self-improvement goal.
Boost your positivity. Positive words may help strengthen our brain’s neural networks. Why? Every time we activate positive information in our brains, our neural networks get stronger (the same is true for negative information). Positivity and optimism can be improved easily by doing this.
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“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”
– Henry Ford
Every aspect of your life can be improved by personal growth. It can help you at work. As a result, you may be able to gain new opportunities for advancement since it can change the way you view work.
In addition to helping one grow emotionally and mentally, personal growth can also help one become more loving, considerate, and optimistic.
A habit is believed to be formed by completing a task for 21 consecutive days. As it turns out, this is far from the truth. A misinterpretation of Dr. Maxwell Maltz’s work on self-image led to the 21-day myth. Despite Maltz’s findings, habit formation did not take place after 21 days. Nevertheless, the idea grew in popularity as people wanted it to be true.
Habit formation consists of three phases:
Phase 1: THE HONEYMOON
Habit formation begins with the feeling that “this is easy.” Even the greatest honeymoon must come to an end at some point. It is usually the result of something inspiring that leads to the honeymoon phase.
Phase 2: THE FIGHT THROUGH
Reality sets in after inspiration fades. The person has difficulty completing positive habits, while old habits seem to reappear. The key to moving to the third phase of habit formation is to win two or three “fight thru’s.” This is critical.
Use the following techniques to win the fight through:
1. RECOGNIZE:
To win, recognition is key. When you have entered the fight through, simply tell yourself, “I have entered the fight through, and I need to win a few to move past this.” Each victory will make it easier to win the next. When you lose a fight through, you make it easier for the next one to follow.
2. ASK 2 QUESTIONS:
“If I do this, how will I feel?” and “If I don’t do this, how will I feel?” Incorporate EMOTION. Take the positives and negatives of winning and losing in stride.
3. LIFE PROJECTION:
If the above two techniques haven’t moved you to action, then imagine in great detail how your life will be in 5 years if you don’t make changes now.
Phase 3: SECOND NATURE
When entering second nature, a person feels like they are “getting in the groove.” However, three interruptions will force them back into fight through mode:
1. A DISCOURAGEMENT MONSTER:
Individuals allow negative results to discourage them into thinking, “This isn’t working, and there is nothing I can do.”
2. A DISRUPTION:
A significant change in an individual’s routine (e.g., vacations, holidays, illness, weekends).
3. THE SEDUCTION OF SUCESS:
When an individual begins to focus on positive results, he or she begins to think, “I’ am the special one. I have finally figured out how to achieve great results with a less than stellar process.”
If a person experiences an interruption that sends him or her back to the fight through, winning 2 or 3 fight through’s will bring him or her back to second nature.
The majority of people would like positive habits to be as easy as brushing their teeth. HELLO…LET’S BE ADULTS HERE…being great isn’t easy. Sacrifice is a necessity for greatness. As a result, you have to do things that others will not or cannot do. GREAT HABITS ARE FORMED DAILY. Consistent commitment is required for good habits. People who are highly successful have developed good habits. If you want to reach new levels of success, make the commitment to make it past the fight through no matter how many times you have to go back to it.
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