Health & Family Self Improvement. What works. What doesn't.

List the ways to improve yourself. What's made a difference and what has little effect.

Works:
Exercise
Good posture
Coffee
Dressing well
Travel

Doesn't:
Healthy diet
8 hours sleep
Avoiding alcohol
Waking early
Cold showers

 

Improve yourself for what, though?

 

I disagree that diet, sleep and avoiding alcohol don't work for self improvement. They play a large part, IMO.

 

Taking a deep breath and taking in positive thoughts. Exhaling and taking out the negative thoughts (in with the good air and out with the bad).

 

I agree!! I always feel better aftet a few cocktails

 

Haha I did say AVOIDING alcohol DOES work....long term perhaps. Short term, it's great

 

What works:

Doing that you say you will.

What doesn't work:

Writing self quotes and plastering them on Twitter and Facebook.


pinkboy

 

Depends on what you mean by self improvement.

Become a better person?
Spiritual growth?
Career?
Healthier?
Wealthier?
All of the above?

Would think that a healthy diet and 8 hours sleep a night would be beneficial to any goal.
Marg

 

Short term lack of sleep can get you toward a short term goal, but long term it's a disaster in ALL areas.

Peak performance needs healthy body and healthy mind - anything that supports those things works.

For me, these things work -

• Rising early
• exercise
• eating real food
• going to bed early
• prayer and meditation
• goal setting
• chilling with my kids.
• Not too much alcohol.

 

Have to disagree with your list of a health diet, 8 hours sleep and waking up early doesn't work.

More often than not, the successful people are the ones that sleep well and wake up early to kickstart their day ahead of the competition. Eating well is such a critical aspect and does improve on your ability to function, indirectly lead to reduced absenteeism and ability to produce a higher quality of work.

But whatever works for you, may not work for someone else.

 

Who says we actually need to continually improve?

Life is short. Be happy with who you are.

 

Be happy with who you are, for sure, but I think it's important to recognise you've got unlimited potential - otherwise people rob themselves of so much fulfilment that comes with learning better ways to do things, better levels of health, better relationships and so on.

Be happy in the moment, but don't stay there forever.

 

I think so many ppl get caught up with self improvement they forget to be happy in the moment.

I struggled with depression for many years when I was younger. I thought i had made wrong choices and that i needed to change and spent a lot of energy wanting to improve my life. Life changing moment for me was when I realised I didnt need to change and I was exactly who I was meant to be and I was happy with that person.

Theres too much pressure to be succesful or make something of your life. I prefer to do things that make me happy and the rest follows.

I have followed this in my career. I have never looked for jobs because of money or career prospects. Ive always looked at it from a happiness perspective.

 

Warren Buffett loves junk food.
Warren Buffett will not apologize for his junk food addiction

and once claimed: I’m Not Sure Ditching Coke for Broccoli Would Make Me Any Healthier

Warren Buffett: Ditching Coke for Broccoli Wouldn't Make Me Healthier

Each to their own. I am not fond of fast food and I know I perform better when I eat more whole foods and less processed junk.

 

If dressing well is self improvement, I'm very much looking forward to self deterioration once I have FU money!

 

Me!
I'm not happy unless I'm improving/growing/building.
I feed off it.

Idleness is an enemy of mine. In idleness my discipline drops, which drops my general well being and feelings of satisfaction and happiness.

That and growth is a core value of my life beliefs.

 

I agree with this. If I feel lazy for more than a day I get really grumpy. That said, over Christmas I had a whole day by the pool reading a novel and loved it. But now I don't want to do that again for a very long time.

 

Not lazy.. just content with who and what you are.

 

Sounds like my birthday this year.

I had my 2 week old daughter asleep on my chest,
A few movies on the 'home theatre' and I devoured the majority of a fruit flan from the local German bakery.

Helluva day.
Couldn't do it regularly though. It'd lose its status as a real treat.

 

If I'm lazy, I quickly become something different to what I currently am