Growth and Self Improvement is Key to Success

Are you someone who likes to grow? Do you constantly seek to improve yourself and become better? Are you the one, who wants self-appreciation from everyone? If yes, then you need to think about your development, self-actualization, and self-improvement. Basically, there are four aspects to development: physical, social, emotional and cognitive development. Physical development is limited to a certain age but social, emotional and cognitive development goes on till death. Common aspects of self-improvement include goal setting, motivation, changing habits, improving awareness, identifying one’s values and beliefs, and self-actualization.

Some steps are given to move on the journey towards self-improvement and success:

1. The first step, starts with self-realization what you really want & how; and then defining your life goals, preferences; how will you achieve it. Refine goals if needed. Analyze strengths and weakness, knowing about fears, overcoming it, admit the mistakes.
2. Believe in yourself. You've got to believe in the possibilities. You've got to believe that tomorrow can be better than today.
3. If you adopt a change, you need efforts as changes cannot come overnight.
4. Determine and get feedback. Receiving feedback about what to improve upon helps individuals’ performance on tasks, and enhances goal achievements, what needs improvement and what doesn't.
5. Be your own coach. Self-coaching or checking in with yourself on a daily basis has been linked to increases in self-improvement and ask a lot of questions.
6. Consider outside help. If you find that self-coaching is not helping and you need some outside support, life-coaching has been associated with positive change.
7. Exercise your willpower to change direction. Don’t put your efforts on wrong directions.
8. Ask for wisdom. Wisdom comes from book reading and knowledge
9. Books are concentrated sources of wisdom. Ask for wisdom that creates answers. Ask for wisdom to deal with the challenges for today and tomorrow. Don't wish it was easier; wish you were better
10. Fight for what is right and tell the world.
11. Create an inspirational room. Give time to yourself. Your environment sets the mood and tone for you. If you are living in an inspirational environment, you are going to be inspired every day. Get out of your comfort zone
12. Start waking up early and give time to exercise.
13. Try to stick with good habits and positive people.
14. Commit to your own personal growth, try to read articles on daily basis, start your morning with motivational quotes.A
15. Add kindness and humbleness in your personality. Be helping towards and try to learn from friends.
16. Find a mentor or coach in your related field.

Conclusion:

Strong determination and consistency

to the purpose pay itself!

Sadia Khalid
(The writer is PhD scholar & Cyber Research Cell Head, Positive Pakistan.)