We’re all looking for the holy grail to improve some aspect of our life. The blueprint or step by step plan that never fails.
Plans and formulas can only take you so far. The key to life improvement and success is in the implementation of the holy grail.
As long as you’re breathing, there should be something in your life you’re working on improving.
If you’re stuck and feel like you can never figure out the secrets, then start with the following 14 ways.
Apply these principles, and not only will you crawl out of the hole, but you’ll never get back in again. Your life will improve, and you’ll achieve the life you desire.
Your future is in control of you.
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1. Ask for feedback
How on earth can you improve your life if you don’t know what to improve?
Sometimes we have a great idea – the widening girth, the tight chest, the failing relationship are usually glaring signs. We also don’t know what we don’t know – that’s when we have to turn to others for their feedback to help.
I listened in to Michael Ellsberg’s podcast interview. He spoke about how his life has changed since he was able to hear feedback and see it as an opportunity to grow his character and improve his abilities.
It is feedback, not criticism. They can be the same thing, except criticism doesn’t have a positive connotation, unless you put the word constructive in front of it.
Don’t fear for it. Ask for it. Begin with trusted friends and mentors. Tell them that you are open to their honesty. Ask for their feedback about any area of life you wish to improve.
2. Take care of yourself
Self-growth, self-help, self-improvement, hippy dippy la la.
I find it funny to hear people talk about self-improvement. It doesn’t make sense. It’s about learning and improving. We aren’t born with the answers, why not allow ourselves the grace to improve?
I’m an avid reader and devoted self-growth student. There is absolutely no way I’d be living the life I am now without this total commitment to working on myself.
It’s opened me up, helped me become stronger and better, kinder with a bigger intention to do good things for the world.
Don’t fear the hippy dippy la la. Get on board the train. Start with just one book.
My recommendation: Change Your Thoughts, Change your LifeBy Dr. Wayne Dyer. He is my teacher. I read something of him almost every single day.
I’m already seeing a HUGE difference in my perspective and life improvement.
3. Stop making excuses
You can’t keep telling yourself stories and making excuses. They are debilitating. They make us feel helpless and hopeless.
You are not.
You can improve your life. Give yourself a chance.
Take the step to make your life better. Say you’ll do whatever it takes. And then tell the excuses to go away, that you’ll jump over any hurdles that come your way.
One of the many questions I am asked over and again is: “How can I do all I do?” I’m not saying that time is not a limitation for me. It is, but it is also for everyone. I just don’t allow the “I don’t have time” excuse to stop me from improving my life.
Anthony Robbins,
“With a dis empoweringStory, failure is no less than guaranteed. “
4. Embrace change
I’m guessing you kinda like change if you are a traveler. Change is all we have. Learn to let go of control and follow the flow of your life. It’s not survival of the fittest, it’s those who can adapt best to change that will thrive.
One of the reasons I love to inspire and encourage people to travel more is because they get so great at adapting and loving change – the ability to let go and try something new and remove attachments to all things.
Your life will improve tremendously if you can let go of the past and quickly move forward to the future.
Don’t fight it – it’s simply evolution.
5. Accept the struggle
Change is necessary to improve your life. Change can only be achieved through head-butting struggle.
Struggle is proof that you’re growing. It’s how the caterpillar transforms into a butterfly. It wouldn’t grow strong wings capable of flying if it didn’t’ struggle out of the cocoon.
What is this?
Accept the struggle.
How does it help you stretch and grow? What kind of wings does it help you to develop? And where can you fly to once you’ve moved through it?
6. Don’t fear the shadows
The dark side. It is possible to overcome it.
We all have shadows – the overwhelming doubts and fears that control the path we walk upon. They are often subtle and unnoticed. We believe that running away or ignoring them is the best way of getting rid of them. But, quite simply it’s just to turn around and face them.
“Why are you here? What is it you are trying to teach me?”
Once you start a conversation, you can reduce their grip on your life.
Your life will be better if you can learn to see the positive and embrace the shadow side.
7. Move in the direction you want
It doesn’t have to be through pole vaulting leaps, turtle crawls will do too if that’s all you can manage.
Be clear about your goals and believe that you can achieve them. Then, walk confidently towards your goals.
Understanding why you want to achieve your dream is key. It’s a powerful fuel that will drive you forward and help you overcome all the hurdles trying to stop you from improving and achieving the dream.
Ask yourself questions as you take each step.
“Is this moving me away from or towards my dreams?”
Then you know if it’s worth finishing the step or changing directions.
8. Improve your relationship to money
We spend a lot time improving our health and our relationships, and then we get to the money and run and hide.
Maybe from the bills that were under my bed. My life changed dramatically after I stopped ignoring it and began to learn as much as I could about its importance and value.
Why is it important to improve our relationship money?
Because money is the root of most of our problems. It’s the biggest cause of marriage breakups, and is the number one reason I hear over and over as to why people can’t travel more, spend more time with their family, have better health or live their ideal life.
It’s time to get real.
Money is important. I’m not saying it will buy you happiness, although there are studies that prove people who have more money are happier because they have more CHOICES!
It is my very firm belief – grown from my own personal experiences and years of study, that unless you value yourself and what money represents, it won’t come play with you.
That’s awesome news because it means the power to change that relationship is in your hands!
9. Connect with nature
You don’t need to be connected to your gadgets.
It’s usually on my long walks, with just the breeze on my face, the trees shielding me from the sun and the waves lapping to shore, that my best ideas come to me.
Nature offers the possibility of improvement. It’s a pure source of energy, it’s free and available for us to use at any time we want.
It will help to relax, unwind, and refocus your attention on what is important to YOU.
If I were you, I’d even hug a tree or two. Just tell me that doesn’t make you feel good! (It’s even the best way to help you overcome jet lag)
10. Increase your confidence
Confidence is key. To everything.
When I look back on my life – the successes, the failings and the missed opportunities, the one constant connected to all of that is confidence.
I didn’t act on my idea to start a travel blog for three years because I didn’t feel I was good enough!
Confidence is not something reserved for special people, it’s something we’re all born with. Once we learn to recognize what others are doing and what failure is, we can lose it.
Except we see failure in the wrong light – not as a lesson and a progressive step forward, but a sign that we’re not good enough.
We lose the spelling bee, we fail a maths test, we’re rejected by that cute boy, we don’t get the job we want, we miss a credit card payment, all these things chip away at our confidence until soon enough we start second guessing our every decision and whether we’re really worthy of anything.
Regain your confidence and work on building it.
Strangely, confidence is often found in doing the things you fear most. You can prove to yourself that you are better than your mind or the opinions of others.
Travel was a great way to improve my confidence. You’ll be amazed at how capable you can turn things around in countries where you have little money.
Creating my own business and doing things each day that scare me and feel so out of my depth have improved my confidence once I’ve come out the other side unscathed, with new insights and success.
11. Feel love and joy Cedar Key, Fl
These are our two most intense emotions.
Your life will improve if you can live from these states as often and as often as possible. It’s a pure energy and vibration thing. You just need to find out what or who is helping you feel this way and do more.
When you feel down, actively seek them out.
It will transform your state, which in turn will alter your experience, which can lead to better quality of life.
12. Change your energy
My friend Belinda Davidson said it change your energy, change your life!
After being a student of her school for three years, I completely agree. It’s probably one of the easiest thing to do on this list.
Here are some ways you can do it:
1. Physical – work on cleaning out your body. Eat a healthy diet, get enough sleep, exercise regularly, and clean your body regularly. I not long ago finished a 30 day body cleanse and I’ve got a lot of potions and pills I frequently take to keep my body clean so the energy can flow freely.
2. Mentally – Ensure you are only consuming information that raises your vibration. Instead of allowing the news to distract you, choose to surround yourself with supportive people who are more inclined than to tolerate you. Clean mental energy and focus are essential.
3. Spiritual – Meditate daily (it will help keep your mental and physical energy clean too). Seek out energy healers who can help you get your chi flowing back. Cleanse your chakras.
Your chakras are energy points in your body that control all aspects of your life. Your life will reflect the blockage of one chakra.
For example, if your throat chakra is blocked, you’ll have difficulty expressing yourself. It’s life changing to understand this.
13. Get assistance from people who know what you need
Who are your mentors? Whose advice do you ask regularly?
These are crucial questions to ask yourself. As we’ve learned from the ways above, you have to take responsibility for your own improvement.
While I was writing this post I came across a section from Tony Robbins’ new book. Money, Master the money
I’m reading it because I want to learn how to manage and invest my money smartly. Who can I learn this from? A financial advisor who doesn’t have success with his own finances or Tony Robbins and all the successful and billionaire investors he interviewed?
Tony says this.
Psychology is responsible for 80% of your success in life, and mechanics is responsible for 20%.
Let’s count the other 13 tips in this post The 80%. The rest is when successful people use strategies and techniques.
So, What areas in your life do you need to improve? Who do you know who has succeeded in this area of their lives?
Learn from them.
If you bring the 80% to the table and learn from them, you’ll improve your life. It’s a given.
14. Travel More
I can’t think of anything that will improve your life more than travel.
It gives you the freedom and space to make changes and define the person you want to become.
It will open your mind, increase your confidence, break down barriers, make you think outside the box, teach you to depend on yourself and allow you to be open to new ideas and meet new people.
It makes you feel connected to your life and a child-like wonder.
That’s only a few of the benefits too.
We started our travel blog because we realized how much travel can improve your life and change your life. We wanted to share that knowledge with as many people as possible so they could have the same experience.
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Which of these methods will you use to improve your life? What are you looking for more help with?
Source: Breaking Travel News