By Your Own Bootstraps: Quick Tips On Self Improvement

By Don Spartan

Personal development can help you gain control of your current situation and feel more fulfilled. Let this article inspire you to make those life-changing improvements. The following article will give you some great tips that you can immediately include in your daily life.

Always carry a way to write down thoughts you may have. Try carrying paper with you wherever you go. Make detailed notes, and later, when you have the chance and are feeling creative, take your ideas further.

See what is in the way between your success and you. Many people have problems doing this. However, being able to identify our weaknesses is the first step to addressing them and ultimately changing them. If you are successful in moving obstacles out of your way, you may find that your life's path is easier to navigate.

In order to get as much as you can out of your efforts with personal development, you need to take care of your body physically. You can do this by getting a sufficient amount of sleep, exercising frequently, and maintaining a healthy diet. You will have more energy if you are in shape, and therefore will be more successful in your personal development efforts. While this may sound like an easy thing to do, it can actually prove quite challenging at times.

One aspect of personal development is becoming a leader. When thinking about leadership, think about it in terms of your level of influence on the world around you. Examine yourself as a leader. What events shaped your life and personality? How have those events changed you? What is your best attribute that makes you a team player? When you examine these thoughts, you will become more of a team player and leader.

Find your personal values so you can create your personal development strategy. Working against these values will lead to frustration and failure. Try and improve areas that coincide with your values. Changes to your life, in the personal or professional spheres, will be easier to make permanent when they reflect your ideals.

No matter what your personal development goals are, there is one thing you need to do. You must actively engage in life rather than sitting on the sidelines. Being alive means learning, exploring, and forever enhancing your own personal development.

There other uses for exercise besides weight loss. There are lots of good, healthy reasons for exercising. For one thing, exercise stimulates your brain to produce chemicals that improve your mood.

If you suffer from anxiety, consider heading to a movie with a friend. You will be out and about but you don't have to talk a lot or even see who you're with most of the time. This will give you the chance to get acquainted with the idea of being around more people.

Do not shop because you are bored. As part of your personal development, clean up your financial matters. Eliminate unnecessary expenses.

Try to get more organized. When you are organized you have much more of a feeling of being in control, and this will help you gain self confidence. Disorganization is a big stress inducer, so organization will help with that, too. Having everything organized and in place can really calm you down.

A good, positive attitude goes a long way in your development as a person. A bad attitude can only lead you down the wrong path in life and prevent you from achieving all that you can. Focus on a positive outlook instead, knowing that this will work for you, and not against you, in achieving your goals.

Personal development begins when you identify what you value the most. You need to understand what you are best at and incorporate that activity into your life plan.

Though it is important to speak your mind, it is equally valuable to listen when others do so. This is very true for personal development skills. Listening helps to improve the words you are saying and the sentences that you are constructing. You will not know what you want out of life when you do not heed your instincts.

You should find the information in this article helpful to you and to the people you care about. Through carefully applying this advice to your life, you will see positive changes that will benefit you for years to come. A large reward awaits you if you can find the time and the determination to put this advice to work.

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How To Write Faster By Using The Creative Flow

By Buffy Greentree

There is a secret place that some writers go to, a place of wonder and of mystery. As a reader you will have experienced this magical place, where you become unconscious of the words or even turning the page, the bed you lie on or the world around you. Instead, your mind sees only what is happening in the story. You feel as if you are there and find you have devoured the book before you know it.

When your writing is just like that, you will become less focused on which word to choose, or the keystrokes your fingers must make. Your story is unfolding before your mind's eye and you scramble to write what is going on. The rush of inspiration flooding through you will make you feel elated, and you are so close to your characters, desperately wondering what will happen to them, how they will be saved. Imagine if your writing could be like that.

This is the writer's paradise, this is the Flow.

It is also the difference between writing 500 words an hour and writing 2,500 words, which is a very big difference. The more you can capture the Flow, the faster, more coherently and easily you will write. What is not to love about that? You will have better books, more often, with less pain and more joy.

How do you do this? Where can you find this magical land? Does it involve drugs? No, the strategy does not involve drugs. Nothing illegal, immoral, or anything that might make you fat. To do this, you must understand the key elements that make up the Flow.

A combination of elements in required in achieving the flow. You have to be able to still all of your body's shouting, training yourself to know when to perform, give your genius time to come up with the goods by building anticipation.

YOUR BODY'S REQUIREMENTS

In order to focus in on the world inside your mind, your aim is to still all the body's normal shouting. Imagine your body is like a faithful dog. It has no right to complain if you take it for a walk and then give it a bone before sitting down, or else it will keep on nagging you. A short walk, a banana or something healthy and filling, along with a good drink. You should do this if you want to get something done, and make sure your writing space is comfortable.

YOUR ENVIRONMENT

There are some things in your environment that are out of your control such as the screaming child next door. You do your best to minimize these things, but you also need to learn to ignore them. I do recommend noise-cancelling earphones if you live somewhere particularly noisy.

Also, you can find that perfect space in your house that allows you to write. The ability to sit up without hurting your back and to type effectively are musts, so all special places need some practical elements. These are aspects which you can actually control.

TRAINING YOUR SELF

If you train yourself to always expect to write at a set time, in a certain place, entering the Flow will become more natural and automatic. One of the easiest ways to train yourself is through ritual. When you sit in this particular chair, after doing these same things, your subconscious knows that it is time to start coughing up the goods. The more ritual you can create, the easier it will be to convince your youth to come out and play.

CREATING ANTICIPATION

You should be able to create a sense of anticipation about your writing session. There are a number of ways to do this. Firstly, think of how much you plan to get done in this session. Let it be a number that excites you but also scares you just a little bit. Secondly, spend time before your session, such as on your way home from work, thinking about your writing and how much fun this session will be. Thirdly, try finishing each session before you have completed the idea, that way next time you sit down, you'll know exactly where to start and already be excited.

The next time you write, expect the flow to be with you. That is, if you If you work these elements of feeding your body, preparing your environment, training yourself through ritual and building anticipation.

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This is an extract from Elizabeth Greentree's new book The Five Day Writer's Retreat. For more great tips on preparing for a lifestyle of writing, sign up to the The Five Day Writer's newsletter for a free copy of the book, or find it on Amazon.