1. Know Yourself
This is one of the most important keys to improving yourself – know yourself. When you know what you love to do, you can use your passion to create an amazing piece of work. When you know your personality, you can then choose the right career and mix with the right group of people.
Here are a couple of questions you should ask to understand yourself better:
- What kind of person am I?
- What do I love to do?
- What is my passion?
- If I get to choose my dream career, what will that be?
- What things do I hate about?
- What are the people I love/hate to be around with?
- What section do I visit first in the bookstore?
- How do I spend my time when I’m free?
- If money is unlimited, how will I live my life?
The above are just some samples of questions you should ask yourself to know yourself better.
Another exercise you can do to know yourself better is through meditation or be in solitude.
Spend time with yourself and listen to your thoughts. How do you talk to yourself? What are the thoughts you think about most of the time?
The more you understand yourself, the more in charge you will be in life.
2. Create Your Vision
Without knowing what you want in life, you will follow wherever the crowd goes. You will live life in reactive mode rather than being proactive.
Most people are living their lives without having a vision. They don’t know what they want. As a result, they “copy” and do what everyone else did.
The mantra, “go to school, get good grade, find a job, save money, and live happy”, doesn’t work anymore.
And in today’s world, there are plenty of opportunities everywhere. There are YouTubers making millions of dollars every year and there are also influencers on social media crushing it with millions of fans.
You don’t need to get a job in order to make money and survive. Instead, you need to follow your dreams and visions. Stop living your life aimlessly. Don’t go through life without knowing your destination.
Find out what you want out of your life. Discover your vision, and live with passion.
3. Be Decisive
Are you someone who is decisive? Successful people are very decisive in what they do. They always seem to be able to make the right decision and are confident about it.
Being decisive is a skill and guess what, you can develop it.
Now, look at yourself. Do you always wondering what to eat, which shirt to wear, or what to do? How do you come to the final decision of what to eat or what to wear?
You have to understand your decision-making process. In other words, how do you come up with a decision?
Are you someone who can decide and hold on to your decision? Or are you someone who always pushes away the responsibility and let someone else make the decision instead?
I’ve seen people who just can’t seem to make up their minds about everything. These people are either lack confident or they simply don’t want to make the decision because they don’t want to be responsible for it.
Don’t be one of them. Know what you want and decide to go for it.
If you love to eat burgers for dinner, just decide and go for it. You don’t have to ask around what you want to eat for dinner.
This is your life. You are the one who is living it and in charge. Stop asking for other people’s opinion.
Develop your decision-making skills. Start with making smaller decisions and stick to them. Such deciding what you want to eat, what are you going to do over the weekend, where do you want to go, etc.
Once you learned how to take charge of the small decisions, you will build up the confident and learn to become more decisive in life.