The Ultimate Self-Improvement Guide: A blog about looking inward to improve your behavior in the right direction.
Since starting this blog almost two years ago, I’ve come across a lot of advice on how to live a better life. Sometimes it’s useful, but it seems like most of it is just talking about the same few ideas over and over again. The vast majority of self-help claims are unproven, and some are harmful.
That is why I started writing this series. If there isn’t much good advice out there to give, I’ll have to make my own! I’ll be covering everything from the obvious (“be nice”) to the more nuanced (“be nice with a caveat”).
The Ultimate Self-Improvement Guide: A blog about looking inward to improve your behavior in the right direction.
In his book Mastery, author Robert Greene states that mastery is not an endpoint, but a process of constant questioning and experimentation. True masters are students for life.
I personally believe that’s true. I’ve been studying personal development for years and I still haven’t reached “mastery.” But what if you’re a complete beginner?
If you’re new to self-improvement and don’t know where to start, this post will give you many ideas to get your journey started.
Welcome to the Ultimate Self-Improvement Guide! This blog is about looking inward to improve your behavior in the right direction. It is not about changing yourself to please others or molding yourself into something you are not. It is about taking the time to identify what you want to be, and then taking the steps to get there.
Are you ready?
In the end, I made it my goal to be more than just a self-improvement guide. I wanted to be an actionable guide to personal development.
This is where the ACT part comes in. While reading this article, you should constantly ask yourself: “How can I apply what I’m learning right now?
Since the very nature of self-development is that it leads to better habits and behavior, I believe that any “self-help” material you read should have the same goal: training your mind in such a way that you become a more productive, motivated, disciplined person.
I have been a fan of self-improvement books and blogs since I was young. In my late teens, I read everything in my high school library that had to do with psychology and motivation.
I was going through a bad period at the time and was struggling to cope with school and teenage life. But reading about people who overcame their problems made me believe that I could overcome mine too.
This was a turning point for me. At one point, I didn’t know whether life would get better or worse. Thanks to self-help books, I knew it could get better and decided to take action towards that goal.
Self-Improvement has been a big part of my life ever since then. And this blog is all about improving your life as well.
It will teach you how to motivate yourself, how to improve your health, how to build better habits, how to become more productive, how to be happy and much more.
The guide is divided into several chapters, each focusing on a different aspect of self-improvement:
Motivation – How to stop procrastinating and start taking action
Habits – How to develop good habits and break bad ones
Health – How to improve your physical and mental health
Productivity –
Here are a hundred things you can do to become a better person, and each one of them is simple.
Most people who want to become better want to get there as fast as possible. But anybody who has ever learned anything knows that you don’t learn quickly; it always takes years, decades even.
No one can give you the magic formula for becoming better because there isn’t one. There are only slow and small steps — but these steps are yours to take, and they will take you far if you choose to move in the right direction.
So take your time, be patient with yourself, and remember that it’s a lifelong journey. You don’t have the pressure to become better overnight, so enjoy the ride.
When I wrote 100 Days of Growth, I didn’t realize just how much could change in a short period of time. As the book grew into a full-fledged system, it became clear that it was going to be something much bigger than I ever expected.
The idea behind 100 Days of Growth is simple:
Think of one thing you want to improve in your life. Then, take action on that thing every day for 100 days.
I found this to be a useful system for making big changes happen quickly. The challenge was meant to be an exercise for readers, but as I developed the content and ideas, I realized that it was more than just an exercise. The book had become a full-fledged system for self-improvement — a way of life.
