Steps To Your Better You

Learn to endure 'stupid questions' as questions asked by people who truly don't know the answer. Learn to endure the people who tend to claim, 'I'm just trying to ask a question,' as people determined to be jerks despite the situation.

Want to feel empowered and better about yourself and your life? Face your fears and work toward that goal alluding to you. Just take it one tiny step at a time.

You don’t want to look for ways to exploit those around you. You’re looking for a way to better understand people by getting to know the side they (usually) do their best not to show you.

Sit down with a physical pen and a piece of paper. Use your phone app if you must. Freely brainstorm for at least 5 minutes (longer if you are feeling it), and out which ideas have been bogging you down, and make plans to do something about them.

You must have a good sense of perspective when going through a rough stretch of failures and coming up short. A rejection is not necessarily the signal of the end of a journey, and it may be a detour or a pivot.

If you repeat a process enough, you forget it is a process, and it becomes a habit you automatically do without fail. This is true for positive and negative processes, so be vigilant of what patterns find themselves running on autopilot in your life.

When you don't feel like you have much personal power to change your situation, take one small step. Make a simple plan to get you out of a bad mental state, and start with step one.

You will spend more time working at your job than anything else. And while your job can be fulfilling, it can also be mind-numbingly depressing. The only thing a job has to do is pay you money for the work you produce. Any love for your job (or loyalty to an employer) is unnecessary.

Sturgeon's law, coined by Theodore Sturgeon, states that 90% of everything is crap. For you, that means the things you hold in high regard are probably only of average worth at best, so be mindful of what you choose to attach yourself to.

This is not a slight to whatever opinions on topics you have, just a reminder not to have such a high opinion of yourself.

Very simple things heavily influence a human's well-being. Things like getting a good night's sleep, a brisk round of exercise, and enjoying a moment of reflection can mean more to a person than wealth, power, and influence.

Delayed gratification is a key component to success, but not a hard fast rule. However, treating skipping to the fun stuff without completing the needed assignments as a casual everyday coin flip decision is a quick way to assure lack of progress.

Most meetings never need more than 30 minutes to accomplish their missions. Many only need 15 minutes. Some really can be handled over a few emails. Save your self more time to get the stuff done instead of being stuck in meetings.

With all your hard work, you not only deserve to take a break, but you probably need a longer on to recoup your energy. You also have toe learn (and learn to live with) the idea of taking more frequent and longer breaks mean somethings just can be done, at least not by you specifically.

Believe it or not, one of the greatest test for people who are hesitant to engage in relationship or unsure if they want to be a parent (to either human or fur babies) is spending quality time at home with living houseplants.

What was once (and again will be) overused meme advice to hype hustle culture, the mantra of ‘fail faster’ is our lesson in personal development for the week.

The always controversial tip is back. Make it simple, and find more ways to drink more actual (or close to actual) water.

Your time is precious, and the most precious time you have is right as you get started for the morning. Because the general public has less chance of interfering with your schedule, consider then the right time to schedule exercise.

Focus on trustworthy news sources that look to update and advance the stories, not just produce endless commentary to keep people hooked like a news addict.

Depending on how chatty you choose to be with your phone, you may get notifications for everything from emails to retweets. And they are constant, even in times when you are giving real focus to relaxation. A proper fix is to turn off your alerts and get away from your phone for a while.

Being present does not involve being physically present for every event and moment. It does involve having the presence of mind to realize when a possible moment is happening and where that particular moment is worth skipping to ensure you can create other moments later.

Put all your focus on considering, 'But what if you don't fail?' If you do fail and you don't like it, stop. If you don't fail or fail but still see some fondness in the activity, keep at it.

Just because you feel gloomy doesn't mean you should use that as a mask to show off to the world. Show the world more of your best self (especially when you are not feeling like your best self) and watch as the world reacts more favorably to you.

If Saturday is your sleep-in lazy day and you spend all day Sunday in panic in preparation for Monday, you need to rethink how much of an unstructured day you can have on Saturday

A good-enough teacher can lead a good-enough student to great things, while a lousy student will flounder regardless of what you think about their instructor.