10/05/2012

Changing Into A New You Once And For All

By Carson McLeod


Considerations about personal development often stems from either a clear or muddled indication in ones life that lends to a bit of self evaluation. Ensuring that your personal development is in par with the goals, responsibilities and relationships you hope to maintain and nurture is extremely important.

Ease the burdens that you carry. If you are carrying around a lot of guilt and stress, you are surely going to benefit from seeking a professional to help you sort through those feelings. If you just let those feelings fester, you are sure to break down at one point or another.

Learning to manage your time and prioritizing are important parts of personal development. You may have many goals you would like to achieve, so giving certain goals weight over others is a great way to stay focused on what is most important to you. You will enjoy greater success if you prioritize your goals by difficulty and importance to your core values.

Don't feel pressured to set goals as New Year's Resolutions because your friends may be setting goals. When you want to make personal changes, it's important to be ready. Don't try to force a change simply because it's the time of year when everyone else is making them.

Surround yourself with positive people. If you are around people who have upbeat personalities, you can learn from them the types of affirmative messages that keep them happy. It is important to realize that you can be happy if you choose to lead a life filled with encouraging and happy people around you.

Keep chugging along. We've all heard of the little train that thought it could and of the tortoise that beat the hare in the race. Constantly working towards achieving a goal will eventually get us there. We just have to keep chugging or perhaps even crawling along and we will ultimately, reach our destination.

Desk jobs will suck the life out of you. We weren't meant for a sedentary lifestyle, and actually, sitting kills us! Get up for 5 minutes out of every hour of sitting. Relax and clear your head so you will be sharper, faster, and more productive when you get back to work.

Keep track of the amount of time you are spending on each activity per day. If you are trying to improve your personal life, you need to figure out how to squeeze the most out of every day. After you have logged all of your activities for a little while, you will be surprised to see how much time is actually wasted.

As you can see from the previous list of tips, helping yourself can really make a difference in the overall quality of your life. It takes a lot of work, a lot of battling personal bad habits, and tons of patience, but it is all worth it in the end to live a happier, healthier life.




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